Bus sketch'es 1.2.3.4.5.

**eighty+** · 03-21-2012, 12:36 PM

Hail O Caesar O Mighty One Vot ish dass chapeau?? ish goot Yavol Ja
AR c'est pour m'tete

Good afternoon Katie Katie Coops I've looked out lovely sunshine

Katie I'm sorry the mess I made of it,

may have another go

as tied with the blessed,

legs arms heads everwhere

I'd show u but
me and Comp are at loggerheads keeps hiding stuff just to make me
mad so I took the wind out of his sails switched him off

( anyway as you know I Digress ) ( Political chat ) have a nice day

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----E/S

**eighty+** · 03-21-2012, 01:04 PM

Hi Katie Katie Coops forgot to ask How do you know when somebody

has pinched your work ???????

thinking

**coops** · 03-21-2012, 01:26 PM

Hi Eighty, you never know cos once it is on the internet anyone can pinch it but this chappie joined Artrage for a day and sent me a PM asking if it was ok and then the same day took himself out of Artrage but he left a link so I could see what he was doing with the painting. By the way just incase he contacted anyone else his name was MOONRIVER. Hey ho thats the chance that you take. Enjoy the rest of your day

**eighty+** · 03-21-2012, 02:02 PM

hi Katie Katie Coops well he did ask and left a link

as he could have not asked you

and then you would have been none the wiser

it is a
interesting thought so a (person) could take you work then show it in
another programe as their own work is this possible YEA or NAE

ok its late in the day and the legs want walking

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----E/S SLAINTE E+

**SCP** · 03-21-2012, 07:58 PM

Great to visit and catch-up on your Art and humour.Keep it going,full steam ahead!

**D Akey** · 03-21-2012, 08:14 PM

Originally Posted by eighty+

hi Katie Katie Coops well he did ask and left a link

as he could have not asked you

and then you would have been none the wiser

it is a
interesting thought so a (person) could take you work then show it in
another programe as their own work is this possible YEA or NAE

ok its late in the day and the legs want walking

..............

----E/S SLAINTE E+

Oh aye. Not only that but they could print it out and sell it, with the buyer having no idea that it was not authorized (ie. rip off). That does happen to fine artists all the time.

In the early days of the internet, artists would put all their work online with good resolution to be seen, as an electronic portfolio as it were. And they did get taken.

Artists are free to do what they want and present how they will, of course. But I've noticed that many of the older artists don't have nearly as much art up as in the past, and they put watermarks in and try in all manner to prevent that form of theft. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

It's probably the biggest can of worms an artist faces -- once it's left the artist's hands it gets really dodgy.

But look at what it's done to professional musicians, or software designers. At least with musicians so many had gotten into contracts where they sold the rights to their songs away, and thus it became a screwy situation where they had to pay royalties to perform their own work. So that's a different shade of the situation. At least with bands the internet helps them sidestep those funky deals and go more independent. But that doesn't mean they can get paid for the music out there once it's out.

But Peter Pinckney our own forum chappie, he got screwed royally by some outfit in a foreign country publishing his music without paying him. And there was little he could do to stop it. And believe me he tried.

As to painting professionally. . . I don't know. They can pick your bones. If you sell your services as an artist, that's a possible way to work it. But. . . it's a new business world.

**Caesar** · 03-21-2012, 08:18 PM

Chapeau! is an international expression.
It's French and it means literally hat, to shortly mean "I raise my hat as a sign of respect or admiration", more or less ...

**eighty+** · 03-21-2012, 09:06 PM

Hi just come to from a doze looked in at the gallery to see what was happening was down near the pit when SCP lit the fuse

before I could
move BAM Mac Was bashing my ear

then my old mate Caesar wants me to wear a Hat

''''' SCP thanks for the excitement

Mac Dodgy aint it If I was young would go back Trad but too late
now ?? but I've no worrie's as nobody would want to pinch my Crap

plus digital suits me as I'm a lazy Sod ok
Hail O Caesar O Mighty One scuse my informal address but was not quiet awake so please don't hold it against your humble servant ATP old
...........But thanks for the Hat