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▲🌱A STory about Art Theft [Ongoing] by Uluri
This story about the Artist JoJoeArt https://twitter.com/JoJoesArt
An Interview wit the artist about the situation on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadjasayej/2020/01/18/berlin-artist-jonas-jdicke-speaks-up-about-aaron-carter-art-fiasco/#4f199fdb2b6f
The originating tweet thread (as far as I can): https://twitter.com/JoJoesArt/status/1218329672339116032
Thought I'd talk about this since it is currently some rather big news in the art community. Tldr is a "mainstream media musician" @ AaronCarter, used JoJoe's Artwork as part of an advertising campiegn without permission. When Jojoe told them about it, musician gave the Nastiest responses and Fuck you's ever and threatened court. (You should read his tweets, they are nasty). And so here we are, in a place where Art theft is currenty being talked about in an environment outside of only the art community.
I really hope that this event can become more relevent in talks about unauthorized use of people's artworks in this way. Art theft like this is a problem for a lot of artists. One of the biggest problems right now is the shear number of people/Companies selling artist's works on T-shirt and other printing services by nabbing it off of google. I would love to see that sort of thing worked on and brought to attention.
HOWEVER, something I would like seen more would have to be this kind of knowledge being taught in schools like how Plagerism is taught to be bad. It's as simple as doing the same thing as off handedly occassionally mentioning that using artwork without proper permission is bad. Just like how they teach about plagerism. If the knowledge for copyright was something taught in the normal environment instead of being discovered by people only after joining the art community, that would be great. I'm sure we would see less butholes who think Google means free to use, because that I know is mostly people who don't even know what google even is.
It's an Art Drama story, but I think this one is relevent one to keep an eye on. It's not every day that art theft has a chance to be taken seriuosly, or ever escalates above the DMCA level. I am personally interested in seeing the outcome of this event.
Final thought: WTF. I wanna share this story with the rest of the art community. LOOK AT HIS NASTY TWEETS!
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I just had two bulletins from people I'm subscribed to on Toyhou.se talk about some recent artist bans on the site, because the people were tracing other artist's designs and selling them as their own personal closed species. The internet has been good and bad.............good for discovery, but very, VERY bad for theft. People do treat Google like every image on it is "free to use".
No lie, I bought a Transformers coloring book (because they make those for adults now and not children anymore! XD), with a cover that had Alex Milne's art--so I thought........oh, they might have gotten an agreement with Hasbro/IDW to use Alex Milne's fantastic lineart comic covers for an adult coloring book (because he always promotes his lineart versions). UH, NOPE. The whole thing inside looks as if they stole fanart (and much not even GOOD Transformers fanart) and bad photocopies of the live-action movie coloring books (oh, the horrors--the PIXELATION).............clearly Google helped someone put this coloring book together. @_@