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Saturday, 7 May 2011

PLEASE READ!

Morning all,

Just a quick post to share some very upsetting news with you all and I do this because in all likelihood you could be affected too.

There are a number of individuals who are trying to profit from your creativity and breaching your intellectual copyright! how are they doing this you ask? simple - they are selling CD's with card designs which have been taken directly from blogs and google searches - in some cases they've even left the watermarks on them and they're still trying to claim that all the work on there is their own!

 Docrafters are setting up a forum for people to post if they've had a card copied. Aparently this person has done this before. She told a docraft forum member that she has permission from the card makers to use the photos!!!

I found out about the issue via Mo's Digital Facebook Page so please go read more over there and if you feel as strongly as I do that someone is profiting from your creativity then please sign up here and if you see any of these types of CD's on ebay - report them!

This is theft - pure and simple and it shouldn't be allowed to slide!

Crafters are kind people who are happy to share and inspire others - which is how it should be, but no-one should be making money off our goodwill.

I hope you'll all help to close these schemes down.

Thanks

2 comments:

  1. Hi I saw the post on docrafts and i believe Bev had one of hers copied so she reported. Dont mind people getting inspiration but to copy and sell on a disc is crazy. Hope ebay does something.

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  2. Thank you for telling us, I will keep my eyes open. This is really beyond the pale I have not given anyone premission to use my designs and I have got copyright on my blog. What next? I dont know who thinks these things up but they need stopping.
    thanks
    Margaret

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