I’m probably an artist, and I do post my “work” on various fora, so the images are there for the perusal of the public; I tend to work in three dimensions, such as this “Steampunk” style space craft:

So, imagine my surprise when a Google search for “Steampunk Space Ship” returns this:

The details of my build, dating back to September 2008, can be found here, and the information on the virtual copy can be found here.

I’m especially amused that the downloadable model contains a ‘license’ for it’s use by purchasers…

Rap – Lies = Hip Hop

Just Found another knock off of a design I did for Enstrumental.

Get the Original here if you’d like one.
the last knockoff

The Fake VIA cafepress

The Original via ENSTRUMENTAL

I’m a professional photographer based in New York and I received  the following email I received from a friend today:

“Just thought I would let you know you should be more flattered than pissed off by this but there are artists in London who seemed to have based a project off your Darth Vader mask image.

http://www.artslant.com/ny/main

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom ”

Littewhitehead installation

Alex Brown's photograph

This photograph was taken by me and first published in The Vice Photo Book 2007 as well as an older issue of Vice magazine. Since then it has been used on gawker.com as well as posted on numerous blogs such as:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvG48qtQt0E

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2007/10/02/sad-vader.html

http://mooiness.com/2007/10/03/sad-vader/

If you Google “Sad Vader” or “Vader kid” you will see just how often my image appears in one form or another on the web.

I guess I should be flattered that someone has created a life size replica of one of my photographs, but I am not happy that they are passing it off as an original concept and that they make no reference to my original photograph. Littlewhitehead are clearly trying to steal what made my photograph so interesting. Any artist with an ounce of creativity would have taken the idea and expanded on it. At the very least, I would have expected them to have the integrity to contact me first and to make some kind of reference to my influence.

Irony comes in some interesting forms.  For years I have been preaching about big companies blatantly ripping off lesser known artists. Despite this, sometimes the little guy can be just as much a plagiarist. I was walking into one of my favorite record stores today when I saw a giant poster advertising this:

Which reminded me a lot of one of my favorite video games:

Don’t get me wrong, EA is no saint. In the past the game company has had several lawsuits filed against it for questionable business practices and has even gone as far as erasing parts of their own Wikipedia entry to cover their questionable ethics. However art theft is art theft, especially theft as blatant as this. Lets have a closer look shall we?

Photo Left URL: http://www.gamespot.com/users/xHiTmAnxi/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25734820 (Center Picture on page)

Photo Right URL: http://www.myspace.com/dmwcd (top banner on page)

The “S” really gives it away. Whoever copied this didn’t even bother hiding where  the “S” was cut off by the Need for Speed text.

Here is the link to their  main site and myspace:

http://www.denversmostwanted.org/

http://www.myspace.com/dmwcd

Go nuts.

I just saw this Honda commercial on TV.  It looks way too much like Justin BUA’s Art work, BUT I just checked his facebook and he says he didn’t do it.  What do you guys think…did they totally jack his style or am I wrong? Check out the video and the pics I attached and if you want more pics check out his facebook as well.

-Wild Artist Michael Cook

Honda Commercial

My comics character I created over 15 years ago,

ZOMBRE was not only stolen graphically but also in name!

I guess I should be flattered.

Great band name but their music seriously sucks.

Here’s an image from a sticker I made:

and here’s an image of their shodily painted bass drum with ripped image from Myspace.

Originally their myspace site just had the Zombre image.

I  asked them to remove it.

They didn’t so Myspace did it for me.

I’m amazed they stole the name and graphics!

Why do people steal things?

This was painful for me to see and hear.

Zombre’s latest issue is

available thru hobocomics.com

and now has a Facebook page.

Topshop strikes again!!! I run a small label called LolaPop, all my jewellry is designed and handmade by me. I was going to let this go quietly but since seeing what has happened to LadyLuckRulesOK and Made By White, i thought what the hell. If these massive companies are gonna have the cheek to rip of independent designers then they should be named and shamed. We need to stick up for ourselves and whilst i’m sure it won’t make a difference to the way they “design” at least the more people are aware of it the better.

The copy is an awful embarrassing lame ass version of my original. After the earrings being for sale on my shop for over a year I got a press opportunity to be in NME magazine, i sent them a photo of my hello sailor earrings then three months later, there they are on the TopShop website! In NME they even wrote that i’m a small independent designer who hand makes every piece so they were very aware that they were screwing over a little guy. How low is that! I mean isn’t the creative bit of the job the fun part of being in the design industry, by stealing other peoples ideas are you not just making your job incredibly dull!