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Can someone please explain to me what is with the obsession with Dolly-people plastering their internet handle on the photos of their resin babies?
While I sort of get the idea of having the watermark on the side of the image, those who drop it directly in the centre of the photo strike me as uniquely paranoid.
*flaps hand in a bored manner*
You don't need to preach to an artist about wild an wooly world of cyber art theft ~ I leave that to the copyright lawyers and professional wankers & hand-wringers to hash out ~ but seriously....
Unless you are aiming to make a profit from the image I don't understand this need to shite in the middle of a beautiful image that they have taken agonizing pains to pull the elements together, compose, photograph and tweak to perfection.
Doing that makes it FUGLY. WHY are you bothering to share?
If you are afraid of it getting stolen post it in such a fashion that it can't be copied, is at a really low resolution or don't post it at all.
In other words: People get over yourselves.
While I sort of get the idea of having the watermark on the side of the image, those who drop it directly in the centre of the photo strike me as uniquely paranoid.
*flaps hand in a bored manner*
You don't need to preach to an artist about wild an wooly world of cyber art theft ~ I leave that to the copyright lawyers and professional wankers & hand-wringers to hash out ~ but seriously....
Unless you are aiming to make a profit from the image I don't understand this need to shite in the middle of a beautiful image that they have taken agonizing pains to pull the elements together, compose, photograph and tweak to perfection.
Doing that makes it FUGLY. WHY are you bothering to share?
If you are afraid of it getting stolen post it in such a fashion that it can't be copied, is at a really low resolution or don't post it at all.
In other words: People get over yourselves.
cynical
@_@!!
Well it's all very funny because there is MAD WANKAGE about some German Artist (a BIG name artist) who has been stealing doll images and such and cyber collaging them into prints and making HUGE bucks in galleries and stuff from exactly this. She's just been outed and the doll manufacturers are after her ass an she's currently going to be publically embarrased in a way that is worse than what happened to Youka Nitta ...who did what I consider a MINOR transgression compared to what this chick did...
ANYway I think that people need to enjoy their hobby for heavens sake, and stop worrying that they are so good at it that people are going to steal their precious images and rob them of ego brushing or some kind of profit.
I really think it's a case of Doll people being very jealous of their dolls and creative concepts and not wanting anyone else to take credit for their earth shattering brilliance.
XD
*looks at the responses*....over 800 in a week. Busy little dolly people aren's they?
Anyway...some people have done great analysis of the artists work and have comparison links in the first post....stunning story. Still...it's now worthy of the watermark madness that existed WELL before this think blew up all over Dollyworld. >D
Have fun.