tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post2520508940073020305..comments2023-05-27T03:46:44.309-07:00Comments on five dog house: have some integrity and be unique...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post-51627136838797867192010-12-21T09:10:28.424-08:002010-12-21T09:10:28.424-08:00Thanks for the comments, everyone. Ana, I like yo...Thanks for the comments, everyone. Ana, I like your take on it...I'll keep proudly making my stuff with 'glow' and I do believe that there are those who lie 'flat'.Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14126961698036467988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post-70327838973661601642010-12-21T06:11:27.412-08:002010-12-21T06:11:27.412-08:00that is so frustrating, to see your work and words...that is so frustrating, to see your work and words copied like that. and you are so right, if you can think it, it's probably on the internet somewhere and someone is making a living off of it already :) ... but, i read something recently which has stuck with me. paraphrasing, but it was the idea that something truly unique has a certain energy to it, that the person who made it or thought of it has poured into it... whereas something that is a copy may be identical, but it lacks that glow. it lies "flat" without the creative spirit behind it. i don't know if it's true (i am leaning towards yes) or if it's something to make those who have been copied feel better... but it's something to think about. <br /><br />off to visit your etsy...ana @ i made it sohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14635343995271698986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post-5432980521736173112010-12-20T10:32:55.912-08:002010-12-20T10:32:55.912-08:00it happens even with photography. i've watche...it happens even with photography. i've watched a few "photographer's" images mirror mine, one after the other. sure, pet photography has some 'standards' when it comes to shots ... or at least, i have my own standard shots. i deliberately don't check out other pet photographer's blogs very often (if ever) because I don't want to inadvertently mimic an original idea of someone else's. <br /><br />but it becomes pretty clear when i see one image after the next of mine (my 'standards') being ripped off by the same so-called photographers. not a creative bone in their body...<br /><br />and, of course, i've been victim of outright plagiarism of my words ... another established pet photographer ripping off my session descriptions practically word-for-word. when i called her on it, she argued that they were her own words ... and only later did she back-pedal and admit that she must have written my descriptions down when she was doing a lot of pet photography research and must have mistaken the words as her own. <br /><br />if she'd been honest from the start, admitting her mistake, I might have actually believed her.<br /><br />to me, it's just sick when people can't come up with their own ideas, but the kinds of goings ons on the "wolfie" website is downright disgusting.scruffy dog photographyhttp://www.scruffydogphotography.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post-52561608717812227222010-12-19T23:44:16.006-08:002010-12-19T23:44:16.006-08:00Spreading the word and making people aware may not...Spreading the word and making people aware may not solve the whole problem, but at least it gets them thinking. Hats off to the artists and craftspeople who continue to create despite the obstacles. What amazed me when I read the information on the blogs was that not only were designs copied, but it was done in such a blatant way.Barbhttp://www.greenwellies.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5151565208763783432.post-87882215344930638162010-12-19T21:56:32.318-08:002010-12-19T21:56:32.318-08:00yes yes yes! i studied this capitalistic-copy stuf...yes yes yes! i studied this capitalistic-copy stuff in my thesis a bit. very interesting. it's hard being "alt" and "crafty" and no matter what, if you put it on the internet, then "the man" owns you (by copying it and making $$).<br /><br />XOdiandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11327713236743857973noreply@blogger.com