Illustration Friday – Primitive & Stealing Art
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Primitive. I hope you like this primitive, untouched area … this is where all the bubbles actually are born … it is top secret to protect this pristine bubble nest.  Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings!
Primitive, Digital © Diane Clancy
Primitive
Untouched, unblemished
Primitive is sometimes used
As a putdown
But I don’t know why
Â
I love naive art
Also called primitive
This sophisticated stealing
From artists (see below)
Is a real problem -Â
Please read and then write!!
TO ALL ARTISTS AND ALL SUPPORTERS OF CREATIVE WORK: Â Our work is at risk of being stolen …. Â legally!! Â Here is the article with the details Mark SImon and Orphan Works Act. Quoting from the article … “This is not just about professionals…it will cover amateurs, hobbyists, your grandmother’s hand made quilts…even family photos posted on the internet will be fair game to be “orphan images” and swiped up and used by companies WITHOUT YOUR OKAY.”
They want a sophisticated registration system where … Â “These registries are companies that you would be forced to pay in order to register every single image, photo, sketch or creative work.” …. Â “With the tens of millions of photos and pieces of artwork created each year, the bounty for forcing everyone to pay a registration fee would be enormous. We lose our rights and our creations, and someone else makes money at our expense.”
These are just highlights … please go and read the whole article and contact the appropriate people. Â They are also considering this in Europe. Â Out rights would be lost so that big business can use our art as theirs!!
“Two proponents of this new legislation are Corbis and Getty Images. They are large stock photo and stock art companies. They sell art and photos inexpensively and are trying to build giant royalty-free databases. Do you see how they could benefit from considering most works of art in the world orphans? Do you know who owns Corbis? Bill Gates. He doesn’t do anything unless it can make a huge amount of money. Helping you lose the copyright to your art is big business for Gates.”
~ Diane Clancy
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worrying isn’t it? I read somewhere that the blog sites have an ownership clause so that anything you post on there is theirs. Surely it can’t be true? I should re-read the small print again carefully I guess. Stuff being used by friends is one thing, but by companies it is a bit galling. They could avoid employing people to design things for them and just borrow some of the marvellous artwork online.
LOL about the top secret primitive bubble nest.
Interesting background information on this post about where the bubbles are actually born, because I have often wondered. I like seeing different parts of the bubble world. This looks a bit like ‘The Land That Time Forgot’ and is indeed primitive. Also perhaps a bit like that island in Jurassic Park in the middle of the ocean where they made dinosaurs out of DNA. But lets hope there are no rogue or marauding bubbles like the T Rex in Jurassic lol
if those bubbles are born where the dinosaurs roamed in juraissac park, i will have to keep an eye out for them…much of the filming for the second movie was done where i live
~sue okieffe
This s very alarming and I am getting more sick just reading about it… In a way, how ould I complain if I myself “borrow” and transform other pieces and create collages…but at the same time, CORPORATIONS are eating everything in sight and we’ve got to stand up and proptect our creative and intellectual property… I will certainly read that article even if it’s going to make me mad.
The question of “primitive” is very interesting in a global world.. Your poem fits perfectly 🙂
Beautiful image! Wonderful work!
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