I've also seen Motovino as a myspace layout.

happens :/

I've seen the same thing with that one shirt with the girl wearing the medical mask.



>> I borrowed the icecream t-shittt and made a sig out of it.

as long as they arent selling it, i see no harm being done.

claiming it as their own is annoying though...

i see copying as a compliment.

is the hair on one side of your head longer than the other side?...



-k.

I use Rock-how-to as my background...

theres no problem with that. I know tons of people who use FITA, with different color variations, Motovino, Who Am I, Grab Ahold of Life, Pandamonium.



No harm no foul if they aren't selling it or saying its their's

before I found threadless, I had more than one threadless inpired layout.

I find it quite hilarious.

same

Aaah that's alright then. I just thought it might have been copyright infringement or something.



Kerrn - Yep; (unintended) Mighty Boosh stylee. :P

It is a copyright infringement to use an artits's work - even if not commercially - without permission. I've been alerted to my Lulu design being used as a blog layout, PSP tube & on an avatar site, & I've not taken kindly to it. The fact that people mess with & modify my work & redistribute it without my permission, & without fully crediting me, really makes me mad.



Copying (which amounts to theft) is not a compliment.

I urge people to use my images as profile backgrounds.

It's very flattering when someone likes your design so much taht they want to see it every time they log into myspace.



If people were profitting off the design by printing them on tee's/bags/posters etc, then that would be a different story.

Do you mean profile BGs on Threadless? If you've given permission & the work is recognisably yours (so there are no misconceptions re. who made it, & it all traces back to you) then that's all well & good...but as you know, when you're a working illustrator/designer, exposure is all-important...to see your hard work plastered all over the internet without a single credit or link tracing it back to you, is frustrating. If people like your work that much, then they should do you the courtesy of asking permission & crediting you.

Yeah, I would want people to use my design as a background. Infact, my best design of all time "I <3 Nanas" is now in wallpaper form at http://www.threadless.com/profile/267478/jpiatt/47811/By_Popular_Demand...

2 sizes!

I mean....when my fans ask for something...I deliver!

I'm not being precious about my work here...I've been doing monthly calendar wallpapers for years...the difference is, that's with my permission & my blessing that I offer those for people to use...just like with your nana WP.



Giving something away & having it stolen from you are 2 very different things.

i wanted some n00dz from you jeremy!



oh wait, you DID give me that...in the 'for nates eyes only; blog...dammit! youre a good man jeremy!

No that's true kareena, I agree with you on that.

Unfortunately no one's interested in stealing my work. It seems every other threadless tee has been faked except mine :/

Sometimes it makes you feel paranoid.

hahaha Nate.

Oh yeah, I just remembered, you're my only fan. And it's not because of my design work! :o

Hmm...a fake Threadless tee...now that WOULD be a claim to fame! Considering mine's selling slower than a wet week, I can't see that happening in a hurry...



Do the counterfeit tees still have the artist's credit printed on them I wonder?

eskimo, I would fake your Jesus Was a Streaker tee if I knew how! Does that make you feel any better? :)

very easy to fake jpiatt, just do what I did.. trace the original photo and add a halo ;)

hahaha

fake counterfeit tees? what?!

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/3868/11498679640826lk.jpg



your t-shirt looks awfully familiar to a photo of a japanese singer...

i think it's been established that the shirt was based off this picture. and always entertaining when people learn it's a man not a woman on their shirt :)

who cares. if they claim it as their own sure, but other than that woopty doo

i've got that t-shirt as my computer background...mainly because it was completely sold out and i loved it too much. of course, now that it's reprinted, i guess i could buy.



anyway, who's claiming it as their own? i've seen several myspace profiles featuring various threadless tees as the background, but none of them say, "yeah, i drew that."



because really, does anyone tag their background with the true artist? i think not.

karena@magicjelly, at 9:01am on May 27, 2006



It is a copyright infringement to use an artits's work - even if not commercially - without permission. I've been alerted to my Lulu design being used as a blog layout, PSP tube & on an avatar site, & I've not taken kindly to it. The fact that people mess with & modify my work & redistribute it without my permission, & without fully crediting me, really makes me mad.



Copying (which amounts to theft) is not a compliment







welcome to america, where your whining will get you no where.



sorry if you feel violated, but hey... thats life.

I work on a site that displays art, I've seen a few threadless designs make their way through and dissaproved them.





Anyways, I saw this particular design on a store sign in the window the other day. @_@;

When I was perusing around myspace I found a whole layout of For the birds

when i check my stats i see tons of blogs and myspace pages using my art (and my URL) as thier background images.



fucking thieves.. i just wish they'd say where they got it from

i would personally be flattered by it, but i know some people are very protective of their work.

it does get annoying if they direct link your images, though, so it takes up your bandwidth.

Isn't basing an illustration off a copyrighted photograph without permission the same as plagiarism? It doesn't matter whether you "acknowledge" that you did it, as long as you didn't get permission -- which I doubt the artist did unless he speaks Japanese. And this is pretty much a direct copy here, not just a reference. Personally, I'm not going to make a big fuss about it because I'm a big filthy communist but I hope Guilherme Marconi doesn't decide to come down too hard on anyone who uses that picture for stuff like myspace page layouts (especially since, unlike him, they're not making any money off of their efforts).

Ahahaha in retrospect that last post sounds like a veiled threat. I just meant I'm not going to complain about it too much, but I hope the artist doesn't complain about people using his work because it would be hypocritical. From the looks of things, it's other artists who seem the most pissed off about it, though.



Sonmi is right about the bandwidth thing, but that's more an etiquette issue than anything else.

Question: What do you guys consider immoral plagerism vs what you'd consider acceptable reference and usage.



Such as my latest submission, which I full acknowlege when I got the base image from:













And does it make a difference if design is really a side part of your life and not one where you make any money at?

submssion



reference

and if you feel like voting on it.

URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/80824/rebel_without_a_cause



(hey a guy can plus can't he)

You've uncovered a conspiracy... createblog.com is a branch company of threadless used to promote threadless deisgns.