Illegal copies of paintings on ebay

[BrianR]

Anyone know how this guy gets away with stealing pictures from the internet and turning them into posters for sale. Here is one of my paintings and you can see the mat from the framing. He claims the painting is in his possession when Its hanging on my wall. Kinda makes me want to pull my stuff down from CAF to prevent this.ebay listing

[drdroom]

You've got a right to be angry, but really, with no takers at a 99 cent opening bid, who cares?

[BrianR]

Its more the principle of it. I know the owner of a few of his other copies. I am even in the process of buying one.

[Bronty]

Well what he's doing is certainly illegal. Even if he owned the original he would not own the reproduction rights. Sorry about this; had it happen once myself so I know how you feel

[Speedy-D]

It looks like it's just a low res print out, probably of your CAF image.

[vodou]

Too much jumping to conclusions (again). Read for content folks

These are 8 1/2" by 11" prints taken directly from original art that I sold years ago and kept these in my files as reference.

(Emphasis mine.)

 

Craigmeister has been selling Earl Norem originals for years. It's not hard to believe some/all of that art was shot along the way and printed out. This is either a publisher or Earl Norem rights issue, depending on how the legals were set up, nobody else's.

 

Who cares if "somebody", even the legal rightsholder, makes posters of the art in your collection? People going to fall on all sides of that (and everything) I guess, but I don't get it. Getting worked up...life is too short yeah?

[Eric Seffinga]

^ What he said. And for those who think their images of work are being taken off thier CAF, printed and sold, your other option is to watermark your pieces and/or keep the image resolutions low (especially premium members that can upload the big scans if they want).

 

 

[Speedy-D]

Too much jumping to conclusions (again). Read for content folks

Pssh, reading is for suckers!!

[BrianR]

Person I bought this from got it directly from Norem and had it for 20 plus years. He is also local to me and the one who framed it by local framer the mat of which is in that picture just like my picture. Yes, my images are watermarked. I would not have said anything if I didn't know what I was talking about. Another item is that the image in the poster and my gallery is not the whole image the framer cut off 3 plus inches to 4 inches of art which I plan to remedy when I re-frame it. If he had the original at one time why is the missing art cut off to match my framed image.

[Eric Seffinga]

How'd he remove the watermark?

[BrianR]

Originally I posted it without the watermark before I figured out how to do it.

[Eric Seffinga]

Not if it's across a busy area of the art it isn't.

[drdroom]

But then the image is hardly worth looking at anyway...

 

[Matches_Malone]

But then the image is hardly worth looking at anyway...

 

Not true. If the water mark is done correctly it wont take away from the image.

[pinupcartoonguy]

Assuming that these covers were published in the 1950s and 1960s, there's also a chance that they have fallen into the public domain. If that were the case, anyone would have carte blanche to reprint the pieces.

[BrianR]

Actually this particular one is from the late 70s and is currently still being reprinted by Marvel for use on their TPBs

[pinupcartoonguy]

If that's the case, Marvel has every right to go after him for copyright infringement.

 

[Jimmy Linguini]

If you don't want people to make prints of your OA don't post images of your OA on collector sites where its easily found on Googles Image Cache.

[Bronty]

Well that's after the horse has left the barn, but there's not much you can do to prevent other than maybe take photos at a bit of an angle instead of scans. They won't look as good on your caf but they aren't suitable for printing either.

[Shadow Images]

Watermarks are easily removed, it just takes more time with some. If you look around ebay and even amazon there are a lot of people printing copyrighted material. I order a Bond poster a while back only to receive a badly printed inkjet.