... And this is why I get Upset...

[jadewik]

And this is why I get upset when people don't give attribution for artwork.

http://drawn.ca/2008/04/18/illustration-book-plagiarizes-dozens-of-artists/

Yesterday illustrator Darren Di Lieto, who also runs the wonderful Little Chimp Society illustration site, discovered that the work of dozens of illustrators, along with the interviews he conducted with them for the LCS, have been unceremoniously plagiarized in a 350-page book being sold online for $100.

Our own Luc Latulippe is one of the illustrators whose interview and illustrations were ripped off, and he has posted a detailed write-up of the situation at his blog, and encourages everyone to spread the word about this, as the publisher and distributors of the book are elusive if not entirely impossible to contact.

Please also read Darren’s blog post about the situation where he also links to a gallery of photographs of the entire plagiarized book.

Please help spread the word!

There are, of course, links if you follow the article's URL (above). I found out about this from another artist's journal... where she said she was considering pulling her artwork from the internet because she didn't want it pirated.

It's a shame.... a terrible shame.

[zipcat]

Aww..

I dislike it too when people steal art. It's easily done to. Sometimes people steal it for signatures on forums too.

But artists aren't stingy; I've found that if you ask many won't mind you using their art so long as you reference them in a post on the forum somewhere.

[Curulan]

There is a reason why all of my signature images have been custom-drawn by friends of mine.

[Da_PAB]

thats y i dont post my artwork on line sad