Comments on: Getting Your Blog Ripped Off

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:53:59 +0000

Hi K!
Well actually you’re in a very good position with image based work because you can use the watermark feature to lock all your images to you. I get TONS of image visits every day-some are my scans of comics, some are tv captures some are things I took from the web and leave the original person’s name on.

And yeah I know people love the Afro, and I lived in Tokyo so I got to see their variations quite up close. My whole dislike of people’s like is the sort of Sambo, Tar Baby, Buckwheat aspect of black people being less than human in real life but GREAT as characters. And they search strings I see in the stats are skewed in that direction.

By: K

Mon, 19 May 2008 13:37:50 +0000

Yeah, Dave! I am totally 100% behind you on this one! I just started blogging for my comic book but was pretty hesitant to post any official scans of it so soon. If someone decides to rip off my scans and then recreate it and call it their own, I’m royally fucked too. I don’t need that hassle. I might decide to actually take them down pretty soon. Maybe I’ll just take photos of my works in progress and post it that way. Or, I’ll just put in big transparent letters over it, ‘COPYRIGHTED BY ME’. Although, you already gave the solution of should someone want to use your photo to have it directly linked to your blogsite rather then have them copy it. Easy.

By the way, I know we all love the fro. I’ve seen a lot of japanese and korean cats rocking the fro too. It’s insane but, damn. Isn’t that a bit too extreme for a brother with yellow skin to wanna be a black man? Its worse when I hear a bunch of asian kids throw the ‘N’ word around at each other like they really are black. Reminds me of that comment Paul Mooney made on the Chappelle show, ‘Everyone wanna be a n—a but no one wanna be a n—a.’

By: Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal

Dave from Welcome Back Rosenthal — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:43:32 +0000

HI Chelle
Good to hear from you, and yeaah internet “friends” can be weird like that.

And I always factor in imitation when I do something in public. But plagirism and branding theft of “look and feel” are things that people go to court about in most businesses .

And thanks about the blog errors. I’m coming VERY close to putting up a request to “tell me about errors when you visit” becuase this theme and I are always at odds. But it’s good for what I’m doing these days-testing. Not to mention my version of “proofreading.”

By: Chelle

Chelle — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:07:48 +0000

p.s.- something is messed up on this page in ie7? Your sidebars are under the comment form! Just to let you know so you can try to fix it!

By: Chelle

Chelle — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:06:12 +0000

I think it is hard to be original these days – I had someone pretty much steal my bestofstupid blog idea and it was a blogger i was actually pretty friendly with. they were nice though and at least gave me a link on the blog roll since i was the inspiration…but still…
just yesterday i left a comment for someone using my sheetz shmuffin picture…sure, one guy is probably not going to make a big dent in my bandwidth but if everybody did this we’d be in big trouble!!

It’s a sign of sucess though when people start ripping you off. It means you must have something good or they wouldn’t notice it to steal it