tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14851907919582839832024-03-18T20:23:53.617-07:00NEEDLEWORK COPYRIGHT INFORMATIONIf you want a needlework industry tomorrow, protect it today by honoring the copyrights of the designers that create the charts. StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-63749766616865767832016-11-21T23:23:00.005-08:002016-11-21T23:24:13.692-08:00Time to assess the true cost of digital piracy by Joanne Seiff<h1 class="story-title">
<span style="font-size: small;">Time to assess the true cost of digital piracy</span></h1>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/time-to-reconsider-the-cost-digital-piracy-1.3488270 StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-60510155119549444242016-11-10T05:11:00.000-08:002016-11-10T05:11:01.126-08:00Etsy crackdown <a href="http://www.thewriteassistantllc.com/2016/11/09/etsy-shop-shutdowns">http://www.thewriteassistantllc.com/2016/11/09/etsy-shop-shutdowns</a>/<br />
<br />StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-33385399642130627802016-07-23T01:29:00.000-07:002016-07-23T01:29:25.464-07:00Illegal trademark use on Ebay<br />
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A COUPLE from St Austell who added popular
logos such as Hello Kitty and Fireman Sam onto goods they were selling
through their eBay shop have been ordered to pay up for illegally using
the trademarks.<br />Read more at <a href="http://www.westbriton.co.uk/st-austell-couple-ordered-to-pay-up-for-illegal-use-of-logos/story-29541327-detail/story.html#7xePv71tIMx7juHm.99" target="_blank">http://www.westbriton.co.uk/st-austell-couple-ordered-to-pay-up-for-illegal-use-of-logos/story-29541327-detail/story.html#7xePv71tIMx7juHm.99</a> "...</div>
StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-15021688132084584902016-05-17T23:35:00.000-07:002016-05-17T23:35:21.275-07:00Zombies? Copyright Myths That Refuse to Die.A very good article with some of the myths we frequently see about copyright. <br />
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<b>http://www.thebloglawyer.com/zombies</b>StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-75092162015068593152015-12-15T05:38:00.003-08:002015-12-15T05:38:42.659-08:00When a designer tries to have violations removed ...A designer has submitted a complaint to a Russian site as her
Intellectual Property has been used illegally. This is the response she
has received, so basically the hosting site doesn't respect copyright
& is telling the designer to sort it out with the person who is
violating their copyright. Great for international cooperation and
trying to avoid prejudice.<br />
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"Your appeal has been considered. We inform you of the following. Our company does not consider the dispute as a judic<span class="text_exposed_show">ial
organ of the parties of copyright infringement and counterfeit goods.
Being a Russian company in its activity, we only obey Russian law. On
the territory of Russia do not apply the laws of the United States (also
DMCA), the EU and other countries. In addition, all the vows in written
or verbal form even «under penalty of perjury» not be regarded as an
adequate proof. Please note that all your accusations based on certain
assumptions and without direct evidence under Russian law is a criminal
offense. Your complaint will be handed over to the client for
consideration"</span>International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-87221750704672749572015-09-26T04:09:00.000-07:002015-09-26T04:09:38.483-07:00Kind Regards to you too!Here is a prime example of how sites ignore our complaints when
designers try to protect their Intellectual Property & request
takedowns of illegally copied designs. Their "Kind Regards" are anything
but & we'd like to suggest where they can stick them.<br />
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Dear Sir/Madam<br />
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You have requested that (site name) takes action in regards to a
specific website, since you find that there is illegal content on the
website or you have asked to have protected customer information handed
over to you.<br />
We have no possibility or intention of being a judge
in these cases, and therefore we advise you to direct your enquiry to
the owner of the website which can be seen via the ordinary who-is
lookup or to go via the system of justice (enforcement court) and get a
court order against the website owner from a EU or US court stating that
the owner should remove the content.<br />
In the case of customer
information, we ask that you provide a court order stating what customer
information is to be handed over.<br />
Upon receipt of a court order we will act responsibly and follow the directions of that court order.<br />
We also refer to our privacy policy which can be found on our website. <br />
We also want to draw your attention to the fact, that a website with
its contents can be moved to another webhost/registrar within a few days
and that a court order against the website owner in this situation is a
more useful tool for you to pursue your rights.<br />
If you wish, we
can forward a message to the domain owner. If you want us to do this, we
ask that you write out the message to be forwarded in full as we do not
word or make changes to the forwarded message in order to avoid any
confusion or misunderstandings.<br />
Kind Regards</div>
International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-91256706911557309582015-09-02T02:12:00.000-07:002015-09-02T02:12:03.601-07:00"I didn't know the site contains copyright violations"We have put together a short summary to try to assist people in what to
avoid on forums or web sites as we have received comments recently from
people using Chinese sites saying they didn't know the charts are
illegal copies. It is a non-exhaustive pointer guide. The countries
specified are examples as obviously not all sites from these countries
are violating copyrights but unfortunately the worst sites are found on
their servers & takedown requests are often totally ignored. <br />
Mainly it is common sense but sometimes it can be hard to tell which is
why we recommend anyone in doubt to ask either a designer, a specialized
forum or the Association. <br /> This is a basis for educating and debate on the subject, as most of our posts are.<br />
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International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-19490005164099967312015-08-29T06:39:00.003-07:002015-08-29T06:41:36.491-07:00If it looks to good to be true, it probably is.<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text4:0">Designers
make their living by SELLING their designs. Some even have 2 jobs because they
make such a small income from designing that it isn't enough to live on. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text5:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text7:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text8:0">So
you stumble across a forum where you find all kinds of charts, which appear to
be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">free</span></b><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span>for
"gold coins", or "diamonds", or "points" all of
which you can earn just by posting to the site. Let's apply a little common
sense here. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #002060; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Do you really think
that designers who are struggling to make a living would give their designs
away for free on a website not of their own making just because you make a few
posts saying "thank you"?</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #002060; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Not only
that, but they scanned it in, sometimes in really crappy quality too!! And they
did that all for you so that you don't have to pay for the design because you
were smart enough to stumble across this forum, but their regular customers,
they have to pay because they were too stupid to find it. </span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4f6228; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4F6228; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent3; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">Do you really think that designers get
royalties or income from sites run by a team of unidentified users</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #4f6228; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #4F6228; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=50000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent3; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 128;">, </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">with innocuous e-mails or Chinese site
owners? That the actual </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">REAL MONEY</span></b></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #c00000; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">you have
paid will go to the designers who have worked so hard on their products?<br />
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text12:0"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Are
you really that stupid or were you dropped on your head as a child?</span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text13:0" />
</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text16:0">Sometimes
we just have to shake our heads. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #00b050; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here are a few things NOT to do
when you've been caught uploading or downloading illegal charts. </span></span><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text17:0" />
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text20:0">1.
After receiving a cease and desist notice, it's probably not a good idea to
immediately run to the illegal website in question and log into your account. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text21:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text23:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text24:0">2.
Denying that you have an account on that site while replying to us from an
email address that is registered on that site is like posting on your Facebook
wall that you don't have a Facebook account. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text25:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text27:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text28:0">3.
While denying that the account in question is yours, it's probably a bad idea
to log into the site and ask for help deleting that same account just seconds
after claiming that you didn't even know the site exists. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text29:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text31:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text32:0">4.
Log into the site to change your username. While it's really entertaining
seeing what new names you come up with, it's pretty pointless. We can still see
you. Even you (username<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> 1) </i>formerly
known as (username<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> 2)</i>. We won't say
your real name here Lynne, but here's a tip - waiting ten days after receiving
your cease and desist letter, then changing your name and continuing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>your illegal activity did not throw us off
your trail, it just turned the possible charges from "copyright
infringement" to "willful repeated copyright infringement" and
increased the penalties by about tenfold. </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text36:0">5.
Join designers' groups to show off your WIP pictures that you created with your
illegal charts. While stealing from us pisses us off, stealing from us and then
sucking up to us at the same time infuriates us. If you ever wanted to get
publicly outed, named and shamed, this is probably the best way to do it.</span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text37:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text39:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text40:0">6.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0;">Don't act
all surprised and shocked when designers refuse to sell you stuff.</span></b><span style="color: #0070c0;"> </span>If you've been caught, here's the reality – an alert
has been sent to every designer in our organization. If you apologize and
reform, then that may change down the road, but it isn't going to happen
overnight. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text41:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text43:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text44:0">And
what’s the best one?</span><br />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text47:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text48:0">7.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Claiming you
were hacked is like the lamest excuse in the history of excuses</span></b><span style="color: red;">. </span>At what point were you hacked? 2 years ago when the
account was created? Or each and every single time that it was logged into
since it was created? Or just now when you logged in freaking out because you
realized we could see what you've been up to? How many of the 400 hours you
were logged into that illegal site were you and how many were the hacker? And
really, who hates you so much that they would risk ten years in prison for
hacking just to make you look bad by downloading cross stitch charts in your
name? Seriously, someone hates you enough to hack your email account (because
they'd have to register on one of those sites with it) and the worst thing they
can think of to do is create an account on an illegal cross stitch forum? Not
get your banking details? Or your credit card information? If you're claiming
this, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">either you think we're
incredibly stupid, or you're incredibly stupid.</span></b><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span>We'll give
you a hint: it's the latter.</span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text49:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text51:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text52:0">And
for bonus points... trying to sound smarter than you really are is just silly,
especially when it results in phrases like "false allocations".
Please stop doing this; it simply serves to provide entertainment to our
investigators. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Actually, no. Please continue doing this. It just
confirms the pitiful level of your intelligence.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text55:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text56:0">Here
is what you should do if you receive a Cease and Desist notice. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text57:0" />
<br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text59:0" />
<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text60:0">1.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #e46c0a; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #E46C0A; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Stop logging into the illegal websites</span></b> and stop
uploading and downloading charts. The entire world can see when you last used
your account and when you are online. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text61:0" />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text64:0">2.
Apologize, admit you screwed up and stop doing it. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text65:0" />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text68:0">3.
Delete all the stuff you downloaded illegally. We know it's painful, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">all those hours of celebrating how clever you were to find all that
stuff that all those suckers out there had to pay for</span></b><span style="color: #604a7b; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #604A7B; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span>but if you
really want to reform and change your ways, that's the best thing you could do.
And if you're already stitching it, buy the chart. </span></span><br data-reactid=".lc.1:5:1:$comment1860676754156830_1906816166209555:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$text69:0" style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Receiving information that your internet or
even personal acquaintances are uploading and downloading is frustrating,
annoying & sometimes even downright sickening, but we know that what we’re
doing for our designers will hopefully give them the strength to fight for
their Intellectual Property and not simply give in to the thieves.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-35517463038573325482015-07-20T01:32:00.001-07:002015-07-20T01:32:06.817-07:00deviantart.com - The-Art-Theft-Discussion<a href="http://protectart.deviantart.com/journal/The-Art-Theft-Discussion-544490149"><b>http://protectart.deviantart.com/journal/The-Art-Theft-Discussion-544490149</b></a>International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-53416388666471072192015-07-06T01:43:00.000-07:002015-07-20T01:33:14.588-07:00An interesting defintion of borrowing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How do you explain to your children not to take something that is not theirs? It appears not to be part of some peoples education.International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-5481959883131266072015-01-24T00:29:00.000-08:002015-01-24T00:29:12.977-08:00Please be careful what you pin.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How can we
make someone who violates copyright that their actions are not without
consequence?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Does it
give you pleasure to know you have made a world famous designer cry today? </span></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That you
have taken her artistic abilities & reduced them to nothing by <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>stealing</b></span></span> her
images and designs, to give them out for free to anyone who wants it, so that the
design is no longer marketable? That the design she has spent hours, weeks or
even months to design is being distributed by people who have <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b>no respect</b></span></span> for
her talent, whilst congratulating themselves on their “skill” in reproducing
that design?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thousands
of hours are spent trying to protect our designers Intellectual Property. Only
THEY have the right to decide how that design should be distributed. Not you –
someone who has probably downloaded software illegally to copy the designs, not
you – someone who thinks nothing of the work, time, money & effort that has
gone into the production of a design, not you – who <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>considers herself talented
because she has COPIED someone elses artwork</b></span>.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>Is this
how you bring up your children</b>,</span> that taking something that does not belong you
is fun? To have them in the playground saying <span style="color: #e69138;"><b>“granny* is a thief” </b></span>(*Mummy,
Daddy, Granny, Grandpa). </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Do you
teach them to go into shops and take things off the shelf, put them in their
pockets and walk away without paying? And justify your behaviour because the
person in the aisle next to you did so?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When a
designer and their assistants have to spend hours policing websites, that
designer cannot concentrate on her creativity. <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>Honest fans are insulted</b></span> and
upset to know their favourite designer is treated in such a disrespectful
manner. <span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>An honest stitcher who has bought a chart or kit legally can hold her
head high and stitch that design with pleasure & pride.</b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Designers
have to spend many hours reporting violations on websites who make it extremely
difficult, if not impossible, to have illegal copies of their work removed.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Does it
give you pleasure to know you are contributing to the destruction of the
needlework industry? Designers are forced out of designing as they can no
longer pay their bills. They have to get a “real job”. The world is losing
these talented peoples contribution to the needlework industry. Magazines,
publishers, shops are closing.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Help us
stop the thieves.</b></span> If you know someone who copies & distributes designs, say </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“<span style="font-size: large;"><b>NO</b></span>. This is illegal, disrespectful and criminal.” </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Support
your designers. Buy designs legally so that we can carry on designing without
the continual burden of theft.</span></div>
International Needlework Designers Associationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11915414181252915455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-2142575941023136102015-01-10T05:20:00.000-08:002015-01-10T05:20:35.582-08:00How do you understand the mindset of thieves?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">2 Dutch
women have been violating needlework designs for years, despite numerous legal
warnings. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Diana
Wiersma & Desiree Onnekink Griffioen run a club in which they continually
distribute illegal copies of needlework designs. Dees also assists in running a
notorious Chinese site.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/diana.wiersma.7?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/diana.wiersma.7?fref=ts</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dees1957">https://www.facebook.com/dees1957</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Having
reported illegal copies for removal for the umpteenth time, which continually
takes up huge resources from our operatives, causing enormous distress to the
designers concerned without even going into the financial losses caused by such
nauseating behaviour, here are a few snippets from their latest conversation
which shows the mindset of these women who are incapable of understanding that
they are THIEVES.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thanking
themselves for “sharing” thousands of illegal copies, upset that their “work”
should be undermined and trying to decide how to set up a new club to continue
their activities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yes, Diana
& Dees, Big Brother is watching you … it’s a shame you can’t find something
legal to do instead of stealing from others.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">We do not
believe such specimens should be allowed the honour of sewing our designs, nor
to participate in designers groups. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">* * *</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">… Meanwhile, the
second sleepless night .... and we are not yet out how to proceed.<br />
The club still exists, as you see, but ..... there is nothing more.<br />
I have all the "content" as the club master calls it removed. <br />
In other words .... every "movement" that I make on clubs, is
followed closely.<br />
That feels very nasty .... "Big brother is watching me" ... it does
not feel safe anymore, as if my freedom is taken away.<br />
I have consulted with Desiree and we are not giving up yet. <br />
I am in any case completely gutted, feel helpless and sad, because yes ....
this club is really my passion and my life.<br />
<br />
So we are still some time to find a solution ..... so today as no weekend
pictures.<br />
<br />
In any case, I want to thank everyone who through club mail, mail, or here in
the forum has given a helping hand, it does really well and really makes us
feel that our "work" is really appreciated. THANKS all !!!</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></div>
StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-641301190305673452014-12-31T02:34:00.002-08:002014-12-31T02:35:01.122-08:00Choose where to spend your hard earned cash carefully.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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or copies, but selling unlicensed artwork, like Disney, Harry Potter, Game of
Thrones or Dr. Who to name just a few examples, but it extends to thousands of
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paying to use the picture legally, you don't have to charge as much. And the
difference in time spent is enormous. <span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Legitimate designers spend hours and
hours on each chart. These guys spend a few minutes on it.</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH;">It's not a small problem either. These shops are selling hundreds and
hundreds of these unlicensed charts. See the example attached. One is a
legitimate shop selling original or licensed works and has been in business on
Etsy for about 15 months. The other is an example of an illegal shop on Etsy,
selling ripped off artwork from Disney and others, which has been in business
about a year - their sales are more than double. And there are hundreds if not
thousands of these shops all over the net. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeEWuhSFWp5UXQyITvDPY0DRC8GThOmXusJaLBEQk3gSs55l7a3kDNU_8tZUEuRsEbK_XEJY22kLwI_zcM0j2ndOqNQlfXLy0uu1aMBi5Otv5Q8dmvf-i-a1QGsx3oOmC6DC_rnnem1wx/s1600/screenetsylvi.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeEWuhSFWp5UXQyITvDPY0DRC8GThOmXusJaLBEQk3gSs55l7a3kDNU_8tZUEuRsEbK_XEJY22kLwI_zcM0j2ndOqNQlfXLy0uu1aMBi5Otv5Q8dmvf-i-a1QGsx3oOmC6DC_rnnem1wx/s1600/screenetsylvi.JPG" height="298" width="320" /></a></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Much as we'd like to have them all
shut down, the copyright owner is the only one who can do this</b></span>.</span> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH;">I spend a
couple hours a week sending notifications out to various legal departments,
artists and designers about these. Inevitably though, within a day or so of one
of these shops getting shut down, they just start up again somewhere else or
under a different name. </span></div>
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like to make up freebies of game, cartoon, movie or television characters and
give them away free. <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Just because no money is changing hands doesn't make it
legal.</b></span> That also means it extends to personal use. If you find a picture you
want to use for cross stitch and it isn't already a chart, you should always
get permission from the artist or copyright holder. <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Without permission you are
risking legal action</b></span>, it doesn't matter whether any money has changed hands.
Many groups have gone so far as to disallow posting of self-made charts as well
for this reason. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH;">The best thing you can do as a stitcher? <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Buy from legitimate sources</b></span></span> -
reputable designers or shops - and if you see something that seems suspicious,
don't keep quiet about it. I know all the copyright discussions can get really
tedious, believe me, I have at least one every single day, but sometimes a
little education on the matter can go a long way. </span></div>
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speaking up yourself, we're only a message away. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">(foreword: I am not explaining laws and rules etc here, merely
pointing out a few things that I feel are important for all in this
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Uploading/Downloading/Designing tornado of crap flying around</b></span>, just addressing
some of the points that I have read/heard)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For a long time now I have
read, witnessed and listened to complaints about the </span>copyright police, <span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for
those of you not familiar with this, it's a widely used term for<b> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">people who
rattle on for hours about copyright</span>.</b> These guys (you know who you are) spend hours
every week, sifting through page upon page of uploaded charts, looking to see
how many have been downloaded and then spend more time telling how the
"Copyright laws" work and how they are being infringed etc.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Do you find this annoying?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They float from page to page,
look here, post there, pick people out and name them or ban them, based on the
"Proof" they have.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They like to use words like
"Infringer", "downloader", "Uploader".... and so
on.... personally I don't like these terms, these names given to those they
point at.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The problem is, these
designers and friends spend an awful lot of time designing a chart, picking
colours, fabric etc, then charting it, then stitching it, then recharting it
with amendments and then writing out instructions , then compiling it, then
printing it, then sorting and packaging it and finally boxing it up and mailing
it out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It's funny how you can
compress hundreds of hours of work into one paragraph isn't it.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Once this is all
accomplished, the charts sell, now we take into account the cost of the
materials for the model, the cost of paper, ink, packaging, boxing, mailing....
then remove the distributors fees and the retail shops cut.... suddenly that
$20 chart just earned you maybe $3-$5... so you sell 100 of them (and for many
designers this is a high number in the first few months of release), and lets
put the higher price of $5, so that's $500 profit... for approximately 200-400
hours sometimes more ... of work, lets go with the lower.... 200 hours for a
$500 return..... wait... isn't that like $2.50 per hour?... wow, that's pretty
harsh, so it evens out when they have sold more right?.... so providing the
chart continues to sell (which often drops off by huge amounts as time goes
on), over the course of time, lets say they sell 400 charts, well now we're
talking, that's $2000, not bad.... so that hourly rate is $10... wait, isn't
that a little lower than the average Canadian MacDonalds worker.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Yet these guys are talented,
talented enough to sell their artwork, to have it handed around the internet...
the problem is when they are desperately trying to sell those 400 charts, it
usually only reaches a quarter of that before it drops off and goes cold... why
does it go cold?... well a chart comes out and sells 50 in the first week... 50
in the second week (these numbers are very high for most)... then it gets
uploaded to a sharing site or pintrest or similar... once it's out there for
free... it stops selling.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #e69138;"><b>The amount of time and effort
put into creating these works of art is huge</b></span>, it's not something you can
seriously attempt as a business and still hold a normal job, we are talking
about 12-18 hour days, 6-7 days per week... EVERY week... and when it's
uploaded, it's heartbreaking, and not only that but it's seriously detrimental
to their income and more over, their ability to continue supplying the public
with the products they crave. This leads to the supporting husband needing to
work more hours to cover off the lack of income so the bills can be paid, oh
I'm sure they have lots of money though and their bills are high because they
have big houses and ferrari's... right?... could not BE more wrong, how about a
POS 15 year old car and a 900sq foot house?... rented, get by paying the bills
and eating and once per year maybe buying something nice, like a TV or
microwave or sofa... THIS is the reality for many needlework designers, they
are just like you and I, trying to make enough money to pay the bills from week
to week, the only difference is<b><span style="color: #bf9000;"> they are brave enough to follow a very unstable
source of income</span></b>, but if nobody did this, <span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>we would have no art, no books, no
music. It would be a sad world would it not?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then there's the good old
argument of what is legal and what is not, many of you think you know the laws
as far as copyright, I'm not going into detail because you've already been
told... but I will outline a couple of things that may sink into some thick
skulls out there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If you buy a DVD movie....
you own the disc, the case and any booklets etc that may come with it.... you
DO NOT own the movie, you are paying for the right to watch the movie
repeatedly. If you owned the movie, you would be entitled to a share of the
profits it made.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When you buy a Music CD...
again, you own the disc, the case and any paper materials... but do you own the
songs?... Of course not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When you buy software... you
own the disc, the case and the manual... you do NOT own the software, <span style="color: #20124d;"><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>you just
own a license</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b> </b></span> to use it as laid out in the small print.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If you dispute this, I
suggest you talk to a lawyer and contact some companies legal departments, like
Disney, Virgin and Microsoft.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then you will argue that if
it's on the internet then it's legal, or not illegal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You all know it's illegal to
upload and download and copy movies and music and software right?... come on,
you all know when you download the latest photoshop that you have to crack it
or find a serial key bypass etc... if you were allowed to get it free then why
do you need these things?... surely it would just install and open?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">No, you have to crack it
because you have obtained it through unofficial sources... and you know
it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What on Earth makes you think
a chart is any different? ... it's been compared to shoplifting... and that
comparison often leads to outcry's about how it's not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well lets break this down...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You obtained a product that
is currently for sale, from a company that sells it... but you obtained it for
free, when the company is most certainly not giving it away. You obtained it
through unorthodox methods and you obtained it without the companies knowledge
and really do not want the companies knowing you have it... why?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">You spin <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>word salad and plead</b></span>
this and that when you know damn well that you have obtained it by
circumventing the need for paying for the product... now if you apply this to a
shop and obtained a product they are selling from someone who "Has it
free" when you know full well they have copied it from an original they
bought, then you have received stolen goods from a shoplifter... <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>please explain
the difference</b></span>... is it because one is physical and one is digital?... well
yeah... so in that case, you should be ok with sneaking into a theatre to see
the latest movie without paying, after all you're not getting anything physical
are you... so I'm assuming many of you "Downloaders" do this no?...
didn't think so.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now the argument of
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>"Well I didn't upload it"</b></span>, that's true in some cases, but by
downloading it you are supporting the the uploaders, with no downloaders, the
uploaders wouldn't bother, in the same way that </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>if you don't buy stolen goods,
then there would be no thieves. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">If you are uploading it, you
are breaching a host of copyright laws that cross borders across the globe, you
buy it and race to upload it because you want to be the one to upload it
first.... yay, you're awesome!... ... ... </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What you are doing is the
exact same thing as buying a DVD, copying it and uploading it... while you
likely do this... you know that is wrong and you KNOW you are breaking the
law... why do you insist charts are any different at all?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What is hilariously ironic is
you <span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>uploaders actually get mad at someone who reuploads your upload</b></span> and claims
they upload it... all the time bitching about these designers who are bitching
about you taking their 200 hours of works and giving it away while claiming
some sort of credit... <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>am I really the only person that thinks that borders on
delusion?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What many of you don't seem
to understand is pages like <span style="color: #073763;"><b>Pintrest/facebook are constantly breaching
copyright</b></span>, you seem to think that because you can upload and share charts...
that's it's ok, it's not, it simply boils down to these websites not being able
to keep up with what people post... that's why there's a "Report"
button. Don't believe me?... ask them, or better still, copy a movie and put it
on Youtube... you will quickly find out you are not allowed to take a work of
art or product and share it online without permission and agreements from the
owner of said artwork</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then I see the "My
pintrest/facebook account was hacked!" ... Oh my god you are so full of
shit, <span style="color: #134f5c;"><b>I'm a PC/Internet/Network technician, these accounts actually being
hacked is very rare,</b></span> hacking in North America and most of Europe is classed as
terrorism and carries a very heavy sentence, the term hacking does NOT cover
you leaving your account logged in on someone elses computer... would your car
insurance pay up if you told them you left your car unlocked when it was
stolen?.. No! why?.. because it was your own bloody fault!... If someone actually
hacked your account, then they would have had to hack the password system of
these sites, in which case it's an attack on the site itself and this is not
easy to do, the only other way is by searching your account, linking through
information on it and hijacking your email, again, pretty tricky and on the
whole, very rare... but you stitcher downloaders and uploaders seem to be
running into this problem often, but then there's the psychology of it... <span style="color: #38761d;"><b><br /> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>why
in the name of all that is green would anyone bother to hack an account to
upload or download a stitching chart?</b>...</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">if you have enough knowledge to do
this then you have more than enough knowledge to just obtain the files or share
the files anyway... or is it to make you look bad?... why?... what did you do
to these people to make them risk heavy fines and prison sentences that makes
them so mad they get back at you by... sharing needlework charts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">How freaking lame is that?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">What really happens?... you
get caught and try to blame it on a virtual mythical excuse of your account
being hacked.... does it happen?... yeah sure... how often?... about 1 in every
2 million... kind of eliminates most of the stitching world, and yet you guys
are always being hacked, scary huh... once again, your eyes are turning brown
as you fill with yet more bullshit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I also hear "I can't
afford them though, I'm poor".... wait right there, I'll go get the worlds
smallest violin and play you a sad song... I'm poor, I really really really
want a Mustang, can't afford one... do I have the right to obtain one in a
similar manner to the way you obtain charts?... really?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">So uploaders and
downloaders... both as bad as each other and cannot survive doing this without
each other.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Then there's the great
comment I see/hear often... "This sharing is forcing designers to quit
because they can't afford to do it"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The response is often ..
"<span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Oh well, one designer quits, another one will come along.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is where the line has
not only been crossed, but been crossed with such flippancy it angers me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The above statement about
"one quits and another comes along"... if you've ever said, posted or
thought anything close to that then you are a piece of garbage, you are the
lowest of the human race in the civilized world, you have no care that what you
are doing is directly causing <span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>financial and psychological issues</b></span> for these guys
who <span style="color: #bf9000;">pour their heart and soul into making something you clearly think is
beautiful</span>, and then you just take it and say you don't care if that person that
created something that brought you happiness loses their business and watch you
pouring their dreams down the drain... you are scum, you are not worthy of the
title of "Human Being"...</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">At the start of this word
block I mentioned I don't like the term "Downloader", "Uploader"
or "Infringer" or the like... I would like to briefly explain why I
don't like them, the reason is very very simple and very short and to the
point, while you can gloss it up to being an "Infringer", much the
same way we gloss up a "Sanitation technician" and want to just say
"You're a Janitor FFS!"... the term "Infringer:" and the
like are just a glossed up way of describing what you really are.... you are
nothing more than a <span style="color: #741b47;"><b>dirty, common thief</b></span>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Have some compassion for
these guys who are simply trying to make a living and the husbands and
supporters who are picking up the slack, these families are just trying to
survive in this world the same as you and your family, they offer you a product
that makes you happy, for a nominal fee, <span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>they bring you a small piece of
happiness... in return you offer them deceit, lies, theft and heartache. </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="null"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Unlicensed charts on Etsy/Ebay. ..
since it's not our artwork or our copyright, why do we care if these people are
breaking the law?”</span></b></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The reason we care is that
it takes business away from legitimate companies, the ones who do pay big bucks
for licensing. The ones who work very hard on artwork reproductions to produce
high quality charts rather than just 2 minute completely computer generated
knock offs. The ones who are legally trying to make a living rather than
skirting all the laws to make a quick buck. The ones who care about artists
work and artists making a living as well. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Imagine you're an artist or
a photographer, whose living is made from your creativity. You work very hard
on your artwork, putting in many hours, sometimes weeks or months, to get it
perfect. You are really proud of it and put it on your website or Facebook page
to show of the work you're so proud of, and try to make some money from all
your work. Someone asks you if they can chart it for cross stitch, and pay you
a royalty each time it sells. They painstakingly recreate your art in cross
stitch, trying to remain as faithful as possible and showing you their progress
all the way along. They give you full credit for the work, and give links to
your website and they sell 3 of them and you're pretty stoked because your
artwork is making money. Someone else saves the picture and creates a cross
stitch chart of it to sell. They don't ask you, they just do it. Because they
don't have to pay a license or royalty to you, they charge half the price and
sell ten of them. They don't take a whole lot of time to make sure the
reproduction is faithful, they just open it in a cross stitch program, convert
and save it so nobody know what it will look like stitched. They don't give you
credit for the artwork, they don't give you any money for the work and they
don't even tell you they've done it. How would you feel? </span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Oh I know, you're not very
creative, you couldn't draw to save your life, right? So it's pretty hard to
imagine. So how about this? Imagine you'd taken a beautiful photo of your kids
in front of a fantastic sunset and posted it on your Facebook page. Someone
decides they like that photo and saves it to their computer and then goes on to
create a cross stitch chart of it and puts it up for sale. They didn't take the
photo. It's not their kids in the photo. They don't give you any credit for
taking the photo, let alone give you any money for using your photo, yet they
sell ten of them. </span>How would you feel? Cheated? Angry? Violated?StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-37285171400823878992014-06-13T05:01:00.001-07:002014-06-13T05:01:45.206-07:00It's your choice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-51588074979861435852013-06-04T02:14:00.000-07:002013-06-04T02:14:51.604-07:00PDF downloads<a href="http://vettycreations.com.au/white-threads/2013/06/04/pdf-downloads/" target="_blank">PDF downloads</a> - Yvette Stanton (<a href="http://www.vettycreations.com.au/index.html" target="_blank">Vetty Creations</a>) explains why she feels unable to sell her designs as PDF downloads.StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-19830847467799561072013-03-01T10:41:00.001-08:002013-03-01T10:41:18.299-08:00The US Copyright Office is the final authority on US copyright law.<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Why you cannot re-sell a needlework design that you have bought in electronic format (eg. pdf)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">1. A Digital File that is being distributed is being REPRODUCED.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">2. The Copyright Owner is the only one that has the right to REPRODUCE a copyrighted work, or to prepare a derivative work.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">3. The First Sale Doctrine applies to those works such as videos, books, etc. where copies were legally purchased.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the case of a Digital File, these are reproductions of original copyrighted works, and so the Copyright Owner is the only one that has that right to reproduce them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span><a href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">Subject Matter And Scope Of Copyright</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Subject Matter and Scope Of Copyright, Section 106, "Exclusive Rights In Copyrighted Works" (Pages 16-17: Section 2, 3)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><br />"106 · Exclusive rights in copyrighted works</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;"</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;"</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The US Copyright Office is the final authority.</span></div>
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Many thanks to <a href="http://www.dragondreams.ca/" target="_blank">Dragon Dreams</a> for this publication.StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-52329019573206628732012-09-07T01:19:00.000-07:002012-09-07T01:19:15.779-07:00Copyright in Embroidery<a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/09/copyright-in-embroidery.html" target="_blank">Copyright in Embroidery</a> - a very good article by Mary Corbet (<a href="http://www.needlenthread.com/" target="_blank">Needle 'n Thread</a>).StopCopyrightAbuseNowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13298314428967767556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485190791958283983.post-11234014496128725002012-08-31T08:37:00.001-07:002012-09-01T08:24:56.614-07:00I got notices of copyright infringements for posting book front covers on my Picase album...?<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<b>Joy</b>: <br />
I have several Picasa albums. One [...] was pictures of the front covers of the books in my collection. [That] was mostly for reference because I would get asked a lot where the stuff I was stitching came from. I had the publisher info and everything in the caption for easy reference. Then one day, I started getting notices of possible copyright infringement. It was very frustrating because they just removed the images and I couldn't tell what had supposedly violated copyright. Nothing from the interior of the books was posted, just the cover. As I was combing through the album trying to figure out what happened, I stumbled across some comments from people asking for patterns. Really? I deleted those and then posted notices that I don't share patterns. But I kept getting notices and finally I decided to just delete the whole album because it was more trouble than it was worth. It did make me feel victimized even though I'm 80% sure I didn't do anything wrong.<br />
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<b>Auntie Robin</b>:<br />
Dear Joy, in the fight against infringements, companies can choose to have their images removed from public view. They are the copyright holders of the images and are within their rights to request their removal. (Even book front covers are copyrighted materials)<br />
If it is not clear whether the album owner is using the images for illegal reference (ie: the copied design is on another service) or whether there is clear evidence from comments by users that "sharing" of the designs is taking place via e-mail, the images will be removed. It is of course possible that the user has no illegal intentions, but some designers prefer to reduce distribution of their images in a radical manner.<br />
As you pointed out, many infringers thought you may be sharing those designs. If they thought you may, it seems quite natural that copyright owners should come to the same conclusion. <br />
I think you did very well to keep refusing to share and to delete your album. </div>
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