A very important video for artists. These ideas are the kinds of things that artists need to understand in order to stay relevant in the digital world.
Margaret Stewart, from Youtube, points out that digital rights holders that allow their work to be embedded, shared, and remixed experience tremendous growth in recognition and sales. The wedding video that she mentions resurrected Chris Brown’s career. People making derivative work off of your art is one of the best things that could happen to you.
If I were you, I would stop being so protective of copyright, and instead start encouraging people to download and share your images.
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I am a 'Struggling Artist' who found a video on You Tube where the user had taken one of my pieces and used it in the video. I wasn't that bothered, but the creator of derivative work had no credit at all, so I asked him if he would put a link or credit to me, the creator of the work. I did post a comment, accrediting myself, but that got deleted, twice and flagged as Spam. Then the user posted a series of very abusive messages to me, saying I was a POS.So what am I supposed to do?It seems too many people out there just think they can lift stuff off of Google and claim it as their own.I reported it as a Copyright Violation, and reported the abuse, but am not that hopeful of much happening.This is the reality: people will steal your stuff, then call you names if you ask for a credit.Why should I just take it?
And no, it's not free advertising if you don't get accreditation, nor would I want my art to be associated with this extremely abusive character.So all those You Tubers who think they can do what they like, imagine if you actually created something that makes you a little money, then someone just steals it and practically calls it their own. Would you be annoyed?
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