Forum: Bryce


Subject: Don't you feel cheated?

tafkat opened this issue on Nov 23, 2003 ยท 39 posts


tafkat posted Sun, 23 November 2003 at 9:27 AM

Yes, it's a straight grab with a couple of minor changes, blatant copyright infringement with intent (as evidenced by the lack of mention in the credits). 95% of the image is a cut and paste, hence the small size of the picture. Normally I'd say who cares, this goes on all the time, but seeing the comments praising the quality of the artwork, and seeing it push ahead of a lot of great quality original Bryce works in the Hot 20, I thought I'd speak up. If it had just been a re-creation of the original then that (IMO) is fine, but it's not. There's been a huge discussion on Epilogue about this, and an entire site was forced to shut down a couple of weeks ago as a result, for using artists' works without permission (and they weren't even pretending the work was their own!) woodhurst - You were right when you recognised it as a pro-quality image, because it was done by a pro. But that pro just happened to be different from the poster! Thing is, we have to assume that what a person posts is genuine. Things are getting sad when we have to research someone's work before leaving a comment!