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Fellow Vuer's, following a link from Mike to the bryce forum, there was a site that was reported to have stolen 3d artworks. Im afraid that there are several images there that were indeed created by our own artists. Please follow the link to the bryce forum, and check the site itself. I recognise several pieces created by our own vue artists.

You are right Beth, what can we do about this stolen work..? Sharen

Attached Link: http://www.desktopcollector.com/cgi-bin/wallpapershow.cgi?cat=02&subcat=00&img=0044&stat=preview

Sharen..Im not sure...writing to them...and asking them to remove it. Seeking legal advice from the renderosity copyright admins might help too. here is one of the recognised images......

Attached Link: http://www.desktopcollector.com/cgi-bin/wallpapershow.cgi?cat=18&subcat=00&img=0026&stat=preview

here is another :

Attached Link: http://www.desktopcollector.com/cgi-bin/wallpapershow.cgi?cat=14&subcat=00&img=0274&stat=preview

Here is another one that looks familiar, even though it appears to have been cropped severely. I can't remember who the artist is.but if its yours.please speak up and check the link out. I urge you all to check the site out. Its a mammoth task.....many are very similar to ones our fellow artists have created in many of the forums. If u recognise one..please post the link/image or contact the artist concerned. ~beck

Jeez!

Yes, I do recongnize them, I will write to them to see if they have the permission of the original artist to post them and give them away as desktops schems. Terrible to take them without permission. Sharen

Beck, thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention.

Varian, The credit should go to Mike and to the poster in the Bryce forum..I only brought it here after I found some images from our galleries. I am not sure if I violated any rules though..especially since I posted the images in question from the site...let me know if I have, and feel free to delete them if I have.

This is some shocking stuff and rightly so, but it runs throughout society and the world. Last week sitting in my car in a shopping mall parking lot I witnessed with my own two eyeballs a thief breaking into a car a few rows over. While observing this IN PROGRESS act, two security people rolled up and attempted to apprehend the thief, who struggled, only to be knocked to the ground and cuffed. They saw me watching and took my name and address. Today a police officer came to my house and took a report from me and told me that the thief, caught red handed, wanted to sue the security people because they broke his walkman, apparently when they bodyslammed him to the pavement. I think the word for this stuff is AUDACITY! At least in polite company. Perhaps people ought to body slam this thief. Figuratively speaking, of course.

Uhh...yeah. OK, Larry, you're OK, right? Because that's all that really matters, you know. :) Beck, you have broken no rules. You have displayed artwork, but only the pirated versions, with the intention being to clarify it for the rest of us, graphically. I just hope the thieves do end up paying for it. Piracy of artwork is not in the least bit funny, or to not be taken seriously. The disdain of such is something we ALL should hold in common.

Yeah, MikeJ, just had a kinda strange day I guess. Had to get up early because this cop came to my house to talk about this other fool and then, when I went to bike over to my yoga class, it was not only cold, but THERE WERE SNOWFLAKES IN SACRAMENTO! What is the world coming too? Sorry for any shake up. But that artwork theft stuff seems to pop up pretty regularly, doesn't it? Yeah, I'm okay. Now if I could only get out of this funny jacket.///

Larry, thankfully not as frequently as it might seem at times, but it depends on whether anyone happens to spot it or not. That's how most of these places get away with doing it for so long, they just figure if no one complains, it's okay, so they keep doing it. Can't count how many websites are out there with a disclaimer like: "I don't know who made these pictures, but I'm only using them for my personal website. If you recognize something of yours and don't want me to use it, just tell me and I'll remove it." Those people think adding that kind of disclaimer lets 'em off the hook, but actually what it does is hang 'em because they're admitting they know about copyright but just didn't care. And Beck, Mike's right, you did fine. Especially since you only posted thumbnails and it's in context. Even if the place genuinely owned the right to these, this thread falls under "fair use", as an illustration of items but not the items themselves.