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[joflasher]

I decided to try using ebay as an advertising tool for my art. I'm not sure how well it'll work but I'm going to give it a try. For those of you that ordered off of my web page, let me know when your prints get there and what state they arrived in. I'm experimenting with different types of shipping and packing supplies.

Comments

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

so, i'm wondering -- are you doing anything to protect your copyrights...?

that's always been one of my fears of trying to sell art and such.

[flasher.livejournal.com]

Not really. Once you've posted your art up on the internet, keeping your copyright whole and unmolested is damn near impossible. I hope to be able to keep people from making cross stitch patterns and such out of it but other than that...*shrug*

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

particularly, you're not worried about people outright stealing it and claiming they own the copyright?

i guess it's somewhat different since you do have the original which is kind of undisputable, right? as opposed to digital photos, computer art, music, etc. harder to prove.. (plus music has more of an intellectual property feel to it).

so i take it that's not too much of a concern for you?

[flasher.livejournal.com]

It is, somewhat. Right now on ebay someone is selling a copy of one of Linda Bergkist's paintings. Here's the auction and heres the original Linda only does digital work, so she doesn't have a physical original to back up her claim. Unfortunately for that ebay thief, that picture has been published eight ways till sunday and she'll never be able to claim its really her work. Its been a greeting card for almost 2 - 3 years now...?

Thing is, people are going to do shit like this wether you take part on ebay or not. As soon as you put it up on the net, the thieves will be after it. From my point of view as a little newbie artist, though, the exposure the internet brings out weighs the risks. Also, I'm not a starving artist and I have a decent clue as to copyright law. Someone makes stencils or cross stitch patterns out of my work and I'm sicking a lawyer on them. Yay, high paying day job.

For something like music, I would be more worried. Its hard to rip off a painting with out it being easily traceable by an untrained eye. Music can be stolen and integrated into a new piece and someone whos heard both may not recognise that they are one and the same.

[luminifer.livejournal.com]

although indeed, stealing music in that fashion is only questionably theft - the courts are pretty weird in that respect. and i guess, my views on it are shaky at best as well.

i guess that's why they came up with the RIAA. *shudder*