I've lived through this nightmare any number of times in any number of ways.. In the 1990s an 'artist' (I use the word loosely) from Brazil 'Louis de Godoy', opened a decorative art studio in Atlanta and with it a web site. His 'Stencil page' featured 8 photographs of beautifully stenciled Italian Plaster walls, every single photo - lifted from my own web site - BFresco.com. We let him know that copyright infringement was expensive to perpetrate and easy to prosecute. So he removed the images, only to open a different web site later, and do the same thing. (He finally disappeared from the internet, though he was not the only decorative 'artist' pirating our images.
What I wonder to this day is, has copyright infringement really become so difficult to enforce? It used to be a scary word to would be perps.. No more I guess?
For what it's worth - 2 total scam companies to watch out for, are Stripe.com, (yes the same $ processor that Substack uses.. look up their thousands of complaints) and Academy.edu - which is an online crook masquerading as an educational non profit.
Horrible! Thank you for the info.
I've lived through this nightmare any number of times in any number of ways.. In the 1990s an 'artist' (I use the word loosely) from Brazil 'Louis de Godoy', opened a decorative art studio in Atlanta and with it a web site. His 'Stencil page' featured 8 photographs of beautifully stenciled Italian Plaster walls, every single photo - lifted from my own web site - BFresco.com. We let him know that copyright infringement was expensive to perpetrate and easy to prosecute. So he removed the images, only to open a different web site later, and do the same thing. (He finally disappeared from the internet, though he was not the only decorative 'artist' pirating our images.
What I wonder to this day is, has copyright infringement really become so difficult to enforce? It used to be a scary word to would be perps.. No more I guess?
For what it's worth - 2 total scam companies to watch out for, are Stripe.com, (yes the same $ processor that Substack uses.. look up their thousands of complaints) and Academy.edu - which is an online crook masquerading as an educational non profit.
OY.. what a world it has become.