Yow. Talk about disturbing. Thank you for sharing this egregious example. I hope you were able to successfully expose and dispose of the thief. barrett klein Department of Biology University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 1725 State Street, La Crosse, WI www.pupating.org On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 10:20 PM, James A. Perkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Happy to oblige. I can't remember if attachments are allowed on this > listserv, so I've posted it to the following link: > > http://people.rit.edu/japfaa/ripoff.jpg > > It's a simple illustration of the Hepatitis B virus. The image on the left > is the original, which is posted to my website with my copyright notice. On > the right is the infringing image with my copyright notice removed. It is > rotated about 30 degrees counterclockwise and has a color filter or > hue/saturation adjustment applied. Otherwise, it's clearly the identical > image. It even has the exact same labels, verbatim (although they > repositioned the labels and leader lines). The infringing "artist" even had > the audacity to post it to a stock art website and license it as his own > creation. The image you see is a screen shot from the stock website. > > By the way, this is a good example of the dangers of orphan works > legislation. If someone got hold of the infringing image (with my copyright > notice removed) they would never be able to trace it back to me, the > rightful owner. Orphan works legislation would allow anyone to use my > image, even for profit, assuming they conducted a "good faith" search to > locate the rightful owner. They could even create derivatives of my work > and I'd be powerless to stop them. > > Jim > > > > On 10/2/15 10:40 PM, "barrett klein" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Dear James, > > I am intrigued by your extreme, personal tale of infringement. Is there > any way I could see your original and the product that stole it? > > cheers, > barrett > > barrett klein > Department of Biology > University of Wisconsin - La Crosse > 1725 State Street, La Crosse, WI > www.pupating.org > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:26 PM, James A. Perkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> For decades, many art schools taught their students that there was a >> magic formula, some percentage by which you could modify an existing piece >> of artwork to make it your own and avoid copyright infringement. >> >> Unfortunately there is no such formula or percentage. If you think about >> it, there's no way that such a formula could exist. What does it even mean >> to say that an image has been changed by X percent? If I redraw half of >> someone else's image, but leave the other half exactly the same, is that a >> 50% change? If I take a digital image into Photoshop and change the colors >> using Hue/Saturation, I can change the color of every pixel in the image, >> even though the image looks basically the same. Is this a 100% change since >> the value of every pixel has changed? (Side note - an infringer did >> exactly that to one of my illustrations and claimed it as his own). There >> simply is no way to define what is meant by changing an existing image by a >> certain percentage. >> >> So how do you know if a new image infringes an existing image? There is >> one fairly simple criterion you can use. If you can tell that the new image >> was derived/redrawn from an existing image, it's infringement. In order to >> avoid infringement, the new image must be created entirely from scratch and >> there should be a paper trail (background research, other references, >> sketches) to prove it. You can never simply redraw an existing image and >> claim the new image as your own. You must create something original. You >> may use the existing image as a reference, but it should never be the ONLY >> reference. >> >> Jim >> >> >> James A. Perkins, MFA, CMI, FAMI >> Professor and Graduate Director >> Medical Illlustration >> Rochester Institute of Technology >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >> Dear Entomo-Listers >> >> When authors send me papers for publication, I try to remember to remind >> them to ask permission to reproduce images from the owner of the copyright. >> Whether non-human or human entities, an email is generally all it takes to >> say "yes". 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