Hmm...I'm not sure how to react to this. Part of me wants to look into whether or not I might have a case against them for copyright infringement and the other part of me thinks it's cool.
I think it's pretty rude that there's no consideration given to me or Scott. I figure a company would know better than to pull artwork off the internet and use it for their gain without contacting anyone about it.
Any thoughts?
Kris
Those are my thoughts exactly. I'd buy a case if they did any of your renderings of my car, but at the same time wonder where they get the guts to grab them in the first place.
I would at least make a call I think to the company and see what they say. Maybe give you some free product!
I did some digging, and I found their number on an MSDS sheet.
Blue Magic, Inc.
936-539-1555
I'm surprised they didn't talk to someone first. These renderings aren't cheap (and Kris invests a lot of time), it would be nice to have some say in where it goes in a commercial application.
I've had people come to me in the past asking to use my artwork commercially. I don't charge a lot, but I do ask for some fee since they are using it for their benefit. I usually don't have a problem with it, but if there's anything that really gets to me, it's when people have no regard for the rights to the pictures and just use them like that. I might give them a call later today when I have a minute (at work right now) and ask them what's up.
I talked to Greg at Blue Magic about the use of the rendering and he was super cool about it. It appears this may have been a sub-contracted deal and not necessarily the work of Blue Magic directly.
Regardless, Greg was super cool, into cars, and I feel better that I could at least vioce my concern about a commercial application of the artwork that I consider a trademark of Lateral-g.net.
That's good that he was cool about it, but I'm actually a little more irritated now because they paid someone else to make the art for them and all they did was pull some of my work off the internet and used it to get paid...very uncool. Did he have any idea who it was?
That's cool. Pass on my thanks and if there's any more questions as to the rights to the images, he can call me as well and we'll work something out. It's not so much a money issue as it is giving credit where it's due (to Lateral-G and me.)
When you find out who is responsible for this ask him what size shoes he wears, and ill start mixing the cement! I agree this is very inconsiderate to capitalize on someone elses time and hard work.
When you find out who is responsible for this ask him what size shoes he wears, and ill start mixing the cement! I agree this is very inconsiderate to capitalize on someone elses time and hard work.
Kris IS a VERY nice guy, but that's no reason not to ask permission to use his work...and from what he said, he wouldn't have charged that much anyways...they certainly should have asked!!!
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I agree this is very inconsiderate to capitalize on someone elses time and hard work.
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