Your work on tumblr?
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- omg0
Here's how a discussion goes on Tumblr. When some kid feels happy, and they want to express themselves, they post a picture like so...
This is just a projection from the kid's mind being posted, reblogged, repinned on their Tumblr. No money is being made. You've stepped into the human mind here, and someone like Disney wants to control what others think and say online, and ask for credit here...?
- ukit20
^ Or just try singing "happy birthday"...crazy as it sounds that is also technically illegal due to copyright.
- omg0
There are too many selfish people in this world, trying to justify their money making agendas.
- uuuuuu0
the way people on the net use imagery is not an excuse for every context. we're not talking about material from the entire pop cultural nethersphere being posted by teenagers for fun. this was design work posted by a design blog that is supposed to be about design and professional designers being shown to many other designers yet nothing of benefit has been created through it. And why not? attributing the work would have gone a long way to actually create value for the work and the artist subsequently making it a lot more legit in terms of copyright and fair use. right now whoever it is gets hits on a worthless blog using other people's work. not only is it infringement its useless. good on them?
- Miguex0
Just for the record...
is not a design blog, is the equivalent of facebook but based around blogging & re-blogging images in general, you will find ANYTHING there, someone that has a page dedicated to fishing, liked what someone else posted on it (lets call it a design image) and this fishing enthusiast can add it to their page.
now everyone following their page sees this image, lets say that our fishing enthusiast doesn't know anything about design, he is not going to do any research on the artist, he just wanted to share that image, just like the 'happy birthday' image omg posted above. (without citing credit to disney) everyone following fishing dude can do the same, the image gets pushed up on the tumblr network as being popular, regardless of it being produced by X artist.
So let's get that straight. Tumblr is just like sharing a cat photo on facebook, is not a design blog.
:)
- designquestions0
Is it lame to email a tumblr owner and ask for credit? I feel like that would make me look like a douche.
- Miguex0
^
what's the worst it can happen? do it man.
- Peter0
- The first few ads I did I cut out of the papers. Or screenshot if digital.
- A few years later I couldn't be arsed to.
- A few years after that I told people I worked with something else then what I really was.
- A few years after that I was, am, working with something else.Tumblr? How about just being glad someone appreciated your work enough to share and repost it.
- animatedgif0
Who cares, if it really bothers you cover it in watermarks
that'll
be
real
classy
- Horp0
The perception is that you might be missing out on commissions. The reality is, you aren't. Commissioning entities don't trawl sites like Tumblr, they don't have time. The few that do only do so to rapidly build moodboards for clients to be inspired by, then they produce whatever resultant work is required internally, or commission known suppliers.
So relax, that fame you seek isn't going to be found on Tumblr.
- uuuuuu0
for one it WAS on a design blog... a blog that was on tumblr. The 'fair use' argument has little to do with commissions and everything to do with the inherent value of the work, removing attributions and posting full works is NOT a fair use of copyrighted material even on a design blog because it degrades the value. The fact that he can not get any exposure or potential commissions from it is a factor in degrading value but the removal of all context is the biggest culprit in deciding its fairness or not. Value has a lot of to do with fair use and copyright.
- i'd like to see the actual post to elaborate because it depends. they may have posted for say the brand in the design or technique not the work itselfuuuuuu
- scarabin0
just put your fucking url on the bottom and be done with it
- uuuuuu0
there is obviously a need in the creative professional world for a broader awareness of copyright law and how it can benefit the industry