Re:Feminist Frequency steals artwork, refuses to credit owner.
by leephillips on Friday March 07, 2014 @10:28AM
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Statutory damages for willful copyright infringement go up to $150,000 per offense. Instead of complaining to a content thief who obviously doesn't care, the artist should be looking for a lawyer interested in taking this on for a cut. Then the donors to the kickstarter will at least know where their money went.
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Re:Feminist Frequency steals artwork, refuses to credit owner.
by supersystem on Friday March 07, 2014 @11:00AM
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Except that it doesn't seem to be original work. So how are you going to maintain that your derivative work was fair use, which relies on being non-commercial, while suing someone for damages? Especially when the one who "stole" your work seems to have a better case for fair use.
Re:Feminist Frequency steals artwork, refuses to credit owner.
by leephillips on Friday March 07, 2014 @11:16AM
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"it doesn't seem to be original work"
You mean it's a depiction of an existing character from a game or something. That doesn't mean that it's not original artwork. I'm sure that would be a relevant issue in court, but that's why we have trials.
"which relies on being non-commercial"
As other posters here have pointed out, this is not true.