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Art Theft (Update)

January 16, 2011 /

Thanks to my good buddy, Adilah, I came to know about the artwork theft.

raya girl

You can find my Raya Girl here: Raya Girl @ Emila’s Littleshop, portfolio, and Raya cards for PTS. I granted PTS a license to use and distribute (one-time usage, they need to get back to me for reprints).They paid me for the licensing, why can’t others?

Previously, I did not put watermark on my images. I take pride in my work and really like people to enjoy my illustrations in a fresh form. Once in a while I mentioned about the copyright in individual posts but overall, the terms of use has been there on my sidebar every single day without fail since 2006. If you have traveled hours on the Internet to find my blog/pages, please at least make time to look and read the terms of use. This not only apply to my blog, it apply to others as well. ALWAYS.

I am going to do something, to take action. This is to  create awareness to all parties (the company/ies and the designer/s) to really work together on creating the artwork.

This is what I have to say:

To the company/companies:
“You should monitor the design process right from the sketching part, down to the finished work.”

To the designer/s:
“Graphic designing is not about searching artwork from the internet and integrate it in your work. Graphic designing is about doing your work from scratch.”

Updates: I discovered another page of the calendar that has my girls on it.

These are my girls, Norah, Emot posing with their bestfriends, Pumpkin the Cat and Dixie Bird.

norah, emot, pumpkin and dixie

And they appeared without consent on the calendar:

the calendar -- malaysia day

This is my raya girl:

raya girl

And she appeared without consent on the calendar:

raya girl has been used without consent


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