I hate the idea, but there's little I can do.
Posted by Liisa on July 27, 2000 at 02:59:10:
In Reply to: Re: Liisa they're taking advantage of you too posted by Kenzi on July 26, 2000 at 17:52:04:
: I think that as soon as you put your designs in a public place like
: the internet, you open yourself up to be used. I like Linda's
: suggestion that you invite people to use your designs but ask them
to
: email you about it first.
That't true. After thinking about this a lot, I've come to the
conclusion, that eventhough I certainly don't like the fact that
those ppd-people use my designs, I really cannot help it, if I want
to continue providing designs to the people who use the natural
stuff. When I started making a web site, I thought about adding a
copyright note to each design, and I discussed this with my
boyfriend. In his opinion the copyright note in the bottom of the
page does the same thing (legally), and we both agreed that the
designs look a lot better without any extra writing on them. Maybe I
shouldn't care about the appeacence of my site so much... Anyway,
I've has such a lot of wonderful feedback about the designs, in here
and by email (thank you everybody!), and I want to keep drawing. The
email thing might work, or I could even put up a password protected
site... but in the end, I don't want to make it too difficult for the
henna people to see my designs. It's difficult: if I want to share
them with the henna people, I must also share them with the ppd-
people.
: I have your designs in my book and I make
: sure to mention your name as the artist (though if you could tell
me
: your whole name I will put that in my book next to your designs).
My familyname is Lehmusto. Lehmus is the word for linden (the tree)
in Finnish. -to is just an ending. Finnish names, long and difficult
to pronouse :)
: I don't think she copied them or printed them directly from your
: website (there weren't footers at the bottoms of the pages) so she
: may have just copied them freehand into her book. If that's the
: case, putting a watermark on your images wouldn't really help.
What I think she did was she printed the designs and simply took a
photocopy of the page with the footers covered with a piece of paper.
Or she might have copied the image files on her computer and just
printed them on a black paper using an another appliation. Or, if she
was clever, she might have copied the html file and modified the code
to remove the footers... Oh no, I think I'm becoming a geek. I spend
far too much time with my computer professional boyfriend. Oh, and
there _are_ a couple of designs which are online but not on my
website. I haven't sent them to anybody, though. I scanned them but
thought I'd draw some more of the same sort before creting a group of
their own for them. Since them I've forgotten them... Need to take a
look at those again.
-Liisa
