RE: Of Copyright Issues, Public Domain, Creative Commons, Cabbages, Kings and Fools ................
Hi Otto,
First of all I wanted to mention that having this dispute has given me an opportunity to learn YOU from different positive sides. I see that you really love Art, this is your Muse, your Admiration, your World where you live. I see that if any of your friends been attacked, you just come to help with everything you have, in this situation with all the knowledge you have.
The next, I wanted to thank you for such comprehensive post and it was interesting to learn quite a lot from the information put together, I bet you spent quite a bit of time for that, but also it feels that you have a lot of passion and frustration with the situation and being powerless to do anything. I believe in real life it would be much easier. I hope many people will read your post and I am going to resteem it too, and I hope you will be able to hear many opinions too.
We, human being, like it to have comfortable and not be bothered if it is not affecting us, we just try to ignore and that is something that I heard from one of the witness who I couple of days ago asked to get involved in resolution of this situation.
One lesson I learnt from it, the Artist community needs to stay together, support each other, there is nobody else who can help us, only us.
Really enjoyed your post and wish you better Sunday, Cheers,
@stef1 Thank you so much for your encouraging words. To put the resources together was not as difficult as it seemed: I had compiled these resources over many years, adding, deleting and updating on the website I maintain for over 500 of the best Visionary Artists worldwide.
You find this, and more on my page dealing with copyright and also other advice for artists:
https://www.vagallery.com/copyright.html
I've been doing this since 2009 as a reaction to a charlatan and serial scammer on Facebook and other social networks who conned artists into paying him money for being featured on his website, using some of my more prominent artist friends as bait (he stole their stuff off the net and pretended they are members of his site). That story is behind us now. He is where he belongs - in oblivion.
Yes, it costs me time, effort and also money to maintain and administrate the site (and there is more than one, including a private network). But what I get from it is karma in spades! Were it not for the networking, I would by far not be invited into so many exhibitions worldwide, get to travel and meet these artists at joint venues etc.
PS checking your latest post, this cretin hit you too! I commented on it.