Guard Your Art (Rampant Art Theft Alert)
July 18th, 2008
Apparently copyright infringement knows no bounds, as the amazingly talented caricaturist / cartoonist Tom Richmond points out in his blog.
The gist of it is, some Indian gal named Ruchika has made a few how-to videos showing how to create a caricature - only the art she’s using is actually that of artist Kirk Bjorndahl.
It’s stunning (in a terrible way) to see this kind of rampant theft take place. I watched the videos myself - they were horrible. Ruchika doesn’t teach - she merely rambles a lot of nonsense - providing no guidance (technical or otherwise) on how to draw the character.
But, of course she can’t, because she didn’t really draw it.
-Krishna
July 18th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
We need to prosecute such individuals to send out a lesson that content theft will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
July 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Please understand ALL art is derived from someone else. I don’t know re Ruchika but we should not for a moment pick up western nonsense about copying art and copyright. Art has always been freely available and must continue to be so. I get disgusted to see perfectly excellent copies derided because they are not original! They are so close to the original that only a set of experts can tell. In this case, the copy is as good as the original as far as artistic merit goes. Re business transaction, ie the price as opposed to the value, the owner and buyer may do what they please.
July 19th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
While I agree that all art is derived from other people - clearly from the videos, the examples shown were EXACT copies - with no credit attributed back to the person who originally drew the pieces. There is no way Ruchika could have drawn those characters based on the “sketches” she demo’d. What transpired on the video constitutes theft, plain and simple.