Sciphone.net ripping off CA.org'ers

**Presence** · November 14th, 2007, 04:19 PM

Hey guys,

I was just at sciphone.net looking for some iphone wallpapers, under their fantasy section I noticed a ton of familiar art that has been posted here.

I suggest everyone have a quick look through to see if you have given permissions for them to use their work.

Cheers

P

**JL.Alfaro** · November 14th, 2007, 04:45 PM

here we go again..
Remember guys, innocent until proven otherwise..

screen shots of the fantasy content:

**Juhani Jokinen** · November 14th, 2007, 05:41 PM

Okay well.. that's a bit too obvious to be a rip off. Nobody can be that stupid really.

-Juhani

**Stark** · November 14th, 2007, 05:47 PM

A lot of that stuff is DA, CGTalk, or Shadowness artists. maybe post over on those forums with this also to see wassup.

**Presence** · November 17th, 2007, 04:59 PM

pstraub's work is on there for sure.

**NewArtFan** · November 17th, 2007, 05:07 PM

I'm new here, Does this sort of thing happen often to images that are posted in the forums?

**pstraub** · November 18th, 2007, 01:23 AM

ahh yeh- someone is a fan of mine- not cool. Thanks to Mike Corriero for pointing this out.

**pstraub** · November 18th, 2007, 01:32 AM

and thanks to presence as well- thank you sir. Why must I hunto people down

**Beelow** · November 18th, 2007, 01:50 AM

Gary tongue and Mathias V aka M@ works are in there as well. I have a pretty good memory.

**Jason Manley** · November 18th, 2007, 02:46 AM

one of the solutions is to report them to google now. that way they stop making money off others hard work. google will turn off their advertising revenue if they find out they are distributing content illegally.

jason

**Ashwings** · November 18th, 2007, 10:25 AM

Yeaaah the 6th last one, the one of the fox is mine...and I totally didn't give them permission, what is this again? Someone on DA pointed me here and said that I should point out which artwork was mine and yeah ^^;

**pstraub** · November 18th, 2007, 01:34 PM

Great Advice Jason-thanks

Originally Posted by Jason Manley

one of the solutions is to report them to google now. that way they stop making money off others hard work. google will turn off their advertising revenue if they find out they are distributing content illegally.

jason

**kovah** · November 18th, 2007, 04:13 PM

I recognise bakenius and Antifan-real from those have sent them both a heads up.

**Presence** · November 19th, 2007, 02:42 AM

Looks like it is happening on here too...

http://www.zedge.net/wallpapers/1210...lpapers/6-0-1/

**Diphallia** · November 19th, 2007, 08:19 AM

But it is quite flattering isn't it?

**Alzorath** · November 19th, 2007, 10:19 AM

Probably be more flattering if you were paid for it

.

**Cookiedough** · November 19th, 2007, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by Presence

Looks like it is happening on here too...

http://www.zedge.net/wallpapers/1210...lpapers/6-0-1/

Woah, this is insane... I see:
- Geztar
- Marko
- Velinov
- Kei (partner of Bobby Chiu)

Most of the pix have been uploaded by this guy: Streetfight

I'm not sure if who's supervising this or who to contact regarding this person. The site does link to other mobilephonesites, so the pix might spread even further....Their faq does mention that stuff in the public galleries is free, but i'm not sure how true that is, that guys profile is public too.

**Nerahla** · November 25th, 2007, 01:20 PM

maybe posting stuff with a huge old watermark will have to do the trick. :/

**White Rose** · November 25th, 2007, 01:31 PM

Wow, this is bad.. there is alot of artists are I reconginezed who are not part of CA work... So how could this get resolved?

**Jason Manley** · November 25th, 2007, 02:33 PM

Their biz model does not require them to sell it...they are selling advertising which if their traffic is very high could net them thousands of dollars per month. They need to remove the stuff...a cease and desist letter should do the trick...but i would definitely refer them to google so their revenue takes a hit. google will shut down their adsense program for that.