hey check this out my friend started the same journal some time ago and on the same reading
[link]

Hope it helps

--
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, Which is why it's called the present

WARNING: what has been seen cannot be unseen!!

wow, Im kinda speechless after that....

OK that officially sucks big time.... so if I where to create a work in Australia - I should be ok? but I guess someone somewhere would challenge that as well...

--
Don't just sit there.... draw something!!

I really don't get myself....I mean if the US passed this bill what about international artists's like you....they can't expect you to just lay down and take it...the internet is a big place and just because a piece of art isn't in their system doesn't mean it's a US citizen....So I really don't know.....what will happen to us...

--
------------------------------------------------------
~Martha Williams~

Don\'t Log on to DA often? Follow me on twitter:[link]

Originals Available Here: [link]

Thanks for sharing Zindy Art theft certainly sucks, and seeing your own work in magazines and sold as posters while you make zero profit from it is quite sad indeed I recently read an article in popular photography magazine about how art theft is more rampant as technology makes it easier for thieves to steal, and sell stolen art. [link]

However, having said that, this article you're worried about is pretty over dramatic, filled with a lot of worry and very little fact. See comment 8. Tora Vi [ April 16, 2008 ] at the same article.

If that isn't enough, research the laws and get just the facts without media panic and I'm sure you'll all be far less worried and/or stressed about it. copyright.gov is a good to read about copyright laws, without any media drama.

--
(¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-Khalil Gibran.

Yeah this sucks. There will be thieves out there no matter what. It will never be completely stopped unfortunately. But the people who are your true fans will be loyal to you because they want it directly from you, and will support you out of respect. The rest are just the type of people that don't care or respect you enough to deserve your original art. The type you wouldn't even want to sell your work to if you knew they thought that way of you. They know they suck. And they know they bought ripped off art from someone that sucks too. So it actually makes the art they bought worthless. The only way your prints are worth money is if they were bought directly from you anyway. Otherwise they're not Zindy originals, so if you look at it that way, Good for them, They own Bootleg artwork. So they are morons. The only cool people are the ones that bought it directly from you.
Atleast thats how i see it. How dumb would i look if i bought a Zindy poster at a concert and was ignorant enough to hang it on my wall in pride. "Hey, hey, Check out my poster!!" It has no value.
I have a signed calender from you. Those idiots would color copy their friends calendar to save a buck and own homemade junk with no value.
Your fans will always be loyal regardless how many fakes are floating around out there for half price. But yeah, it still sucks.
You Rock Zindy!!

--
My Tattoo and Drawing gallery is here - [link]

archrivaltattoo.com can be seen Here - [link]

So basically, to own something bought right from you makes it priceless, meaning you couldn't put a price on it's value to you. The ones who own rip offs, theirs is priceless also, but meaning it isn't worth a cent.

--
My Tattoo and Drawing gallery is here - [link]

archrivaltattoo.com can be seen Here - [link]

i've been wondering about this for a while too, and thats why i have been reluctant to add any of my artwork on my websiteT_T actually, i was gonna go and ask you about sorta the same thing. but yeah, this has been makign me really concerned, im beginning to nethink i shoudl never put my art on the web again!

--
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu

This article helped me a lot: [link]
I would highly suggest reading it...

I loved that article "Someone please tell me where this guy is getting the crack he's smoking, because I want to avoid that streetcorner and everything in a six-block radius, kthx."
Classic.

Like I said earlier, the article is typical knee jerk media panic. Thanks for the link

--
(¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.-Khalil Gibran.