Showing posts with label copyright infringement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copyright infringement. Show all posts

Friday, September 7, 2012

No, I think not!

Imagine my horror when browsing Etsy I came across a very familiar photo - no wait - my photo being used to advertise someone else's product!

My tea break from 'making things' took a little downturn when I found that a fellow Etsy seller had pulled one of my copyrighted images from the internet, cropped out my company logo (yet somehow stupidly left the copyright notice at the bottom right hand side with my name on it) and uploaded it to her own shop to sell her 'poison pie wax candles', Fortunately she's not using it to sell miniature pies, but nonetheless that picture is coming down. I've sent her an email to let her know that - nope, can't do that.
Sheesh! Some people are so funny.

So... for your own amusement, see screengrab of someone'else's shop with my photograph above, and then detail showing my ignored copyright notice below.
Also see my original poison pie prep board designs (which is the product in question) and note that I have a newer design coming soon - blogged about yesterday here.



On a happier note, the weather in Wellington, New Zealand is wetter than a mermaid's brassiere. Take a look at the snaps I just had to take... there's a compare and contrast of my balcony the day I moved in vs now. And it's meant to be spring - the equivalent of March here.... what's going on?! Last image of Wellington was not taken by me, but pulled down from a news site. You see that's okay because I'm not using this person's photograph to sell product. ;)



Sunny day on my balcony in July (winter).....................Simply dreadful weather on my balcony today..!





And don't forget - you have only 8 days left to enter the Pixie Dust Miniatures 'Tell a Friend COMPETITION'! Take a few minutes to enter and you could win quite a unique and special miniature.... Enter here.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

A MUST Read - COPY CAT RIP-OFF!


This post has been edited 1 week since it went up!

To fill you in... I took issue with another artist who I felt stole my Pixie Dust Miniatures identity - from styling her own shop to look just like mine, using the same font in the logo, same catch phrase, same products and product designs, same photo composition and same product descriptions.

I wrote this post with examples of this and also corresponded with her about it. I said that I was happy for her to make magical miniatures (of course - many people do!) but this felt like identity theft and was wrong.

This 'copy-cat' artisan resolved our dispute by removing her shop (which was a mirror image of mine) and so I have left her name out of this post.

You can see the image comparisons below by right clicking on each image and then clicking 'view image'. Clicking again allows you to zoom in.