Copyright Violator of the Day UPDATED
on August 24th, 2010Another one on ebay. They pop up like black mold.
John Howe writes that this seller does not have the legal right to market these images.
The artists who have put in pawn bases of style, called now “Fantasy”. Illustrators AD&D combining receptions of classical painting and requirement for visualisation of new level. They were the first and the best.
What the hell does “pawn bases of style” mean?
Ebay still has not removed the unauthorized Colleen Doran t-shirts. Curse ebay.
However, they now have this nice disclaimer at the bottom of their listing.
Attention Intellectual Property Right Owner If you feel any of our product violate your Trademark, Design or Patent Rights, please contact us immediately and we will instantly remove any offending listing
The logo/picture is trademark of their respective companies. This product is not licensed, defined, sponsored, endorsed or manufactured by this Company.
No shit.
The “instant removal” thing. You’re doing it wrong.
UPDATE:
“Instant removal” not so instant, but the listing was removed.
The location of the seller is Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
I’m big in Indonesia.
UPDATE #2: And the fake John Howe/Frazetta/Allan Lee etc goods are now down. Score one for the artists!
Except for the part where we have to waste valuable creative time taking down this mess. And if we don’t waste valuable creative time taking down this mess, the copyright violator blithely declares themselves to be in possession of tacit permission.
No win for the creative types.
That’s why you’re not a world famous artist, Miss Doran!
You haven’t combined receptions of classical painting and requirement for visualisation of new level!
What is even worse is his grammar. It sucks.
I realize English is not this dude’s first language, but sheesh.
is “pawn bases of style” anything like Ace of Base? :confused:
I honestly have no idea what he’s trying to say about fantasy art and d&d and all that. I reread that several times, trying to make sense of it to no avail.
Pawn bases of style…
…I almost want to steal those words. I have no idea what they mean, but they’re a great example of engrish.
I think it means all your base are belong to us.
so… someone set us up the pawn?
Arlnee, you just made my day.
Well let’s see, pawns is chess are the front men, the first to advance, bases could refer to establishments-
sooo…. ‘put in pawn bases of style’ could mean ‘established new advances in artistic style’ or ‘created a new artistic style’.
This sort of thing happens if you take a sentence in a foreign language and do a word for word translation.
I tried: translate dot google dot com but it didn’t garble Miki’s text when I translated the translation back to English.
Pretty cool site… it even speaks! The English is quite clear, but the Russian… it sounds like it’s being spoken backwards!
Es kommt mir Spanisch vor…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me
I think the solution is simple, we should open season on copyright violators. Hunt them for sport. It’s the neighborly thing to do and it’d be good exercise.
Their punishment should be that forevermore, they have no art or entertainment to enjoy that they do not create with their own hands and effort.