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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by dkokelley on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:25AM (#548452)
If the images are infact his then he has an easy counter-suit for copyright infringement. If StockArt is found to have sold images that were stolen then they owe the original artist the value of what they've sold the art for.

Come to think of it, this is pretty risky for StockArt. They are betting quite a lot that they win. If they don't win, they lose - big time. They may end up wishing they had never brought it up to Jon.

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Re:Designer gets accused of stealing his own work and billed... by flatline on Monday April 06, 2009 @11:05AM (#548949)
The problem with this is the exorbitant costs in time and money to bring a suit for something like this. StockArt can afford to litigate (from the sound if it, they do this repeatedly and can just shell out to a lawfirm), this designer probably cannot. There's a kernel of truth to the saying that the only ones who profit from lawsuits are the lawyers.
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