Ardiva opened this issue on May 03, 2005 ยท 35 posts
kmw posted Wed, 04 May 2005 at 2:20 PM
A fine gesture indeed but ultimately meaningless. I mean, if copyright issues meant anything to someone who'd steal somebody else's work, I couldn't walk up the street and buy a bootleg copy of a certain highly-anticipated film that won't even be released for another three weeks. And this guy could go to JAIL for his actions. Who do you thinks gonna have a prob with Render's tag line about ownership? There right at this moment could very well be some smuck in Nova Scotia making a fortune off your/my images. And you/I'll probably never even find out, let alone do anything about it. Render's intent to protect us is greatly appreciated but we need to also consider that tho we own the work simply having created it, presenting it to the public in venues like this leave every single one of us wide open to being ripped-off. It's a sad, but irrefutable, fact. kmw