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Old 08-20-2007, 12:13 PM   #10 (permalink)
Midnight
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Location: Chicago's western burbs
Coaster -

Best advice I can give you is to create your own designs. looking at both of your sites ( yours and the other artist being "ripped off") the other artist has more of his/her own designs (at least designs COMPLETELY unrecognizable to me as anything I've seen before) than you do. Yes, I understand youare saying that you are creating your designs BASED on marvel comic chars or whatnot, but when it comes down to it, if jane and joe average can look at it and say "thats so and so from such and such comic/movie etc" then if you are making a profit from selling the design to create the same pattern, YOU are in violation of the copyright on the orig work by marvel etc, and one of the reasons this ass was able to "steal" your work is because he was quite right in the assumption that you could do NOTHING about it because you are in fact, guilty of copyright infringement yourself.

I've seen tons of pumpkin designs online like yours, and this other designers. they get away with having designs of the popular comic characters, disney chars and movie icons very easily - they are FREE. these sites are in to to get people to buy their other products, ie: strobe lights, battery powered light sources, carving tools, display stands and so on for the resulting jack o lanterns, or other halloween items in general and toss in the carving patterns free of charge with a purchase from the site.

I wish you well in this, but your best bet is to do only your own designs, or move into a product realm and give away your designs free of charge.
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