Interesting stuff going on over at The Great Architect’s site where he recounts the story so far in getting satisfaction from IPC and its magazine Nuts which has ignored every effort to communicate with the company about an image of his that Nuts Magazine ran.
The Times published (and paid him for) the same image and The Sun recently paid up for a different image of his.
Of course TGA had to be told about the use after each event by fans of his work. The Times and The Sun do seem to do the right thing….when caught.
The Great Architect produces some outstanding stuff, a fraction of which appears on his blog (he posts to B3TA.com normally). I’ve been trying to persuade him to post more frequently. Unlike me, he has a real job and still has time to produce some ridiculously funny work – some political, some entertainment based.
If he’s produced the work, it only takes a minute to post it on his blog, so do try and encourage him.
If, as it seems likely due to a couple of reasons, I have to either cut back on doing this stuff or close the site, then TGA is the place to go and get a bit of photoshopped humour. In fact, whatever happens with this site, it is the place to go – if you can all persuade him to post more frequently.
Despite chasing, IPC and Nuts Magazine still haven’t come back to me on the image they ripped off several months back when they promised to make a payment to Amnesty.
It’s EMAP and Zoo all over again and even if Zoo is eventually taken over by Bauer publishing, I WILL still be on their case.
I only hope that Bauer are mindful of industry guidelines about making every effort to find the creator of an image and realise the advertisers, who dole out prizes to those who (Zoo claims) send in the images, may be seen as liable for encouraging/supporting breach of copyright. Pretty embarrassing for the large film/computer games companies and distributors.
Maybe it’s time to dig out the recording of the phone conversations I had with Nick and Louise from Nuts Magazine.
The IP for Associated Newspapers has been blocked on this website after the Daily Mail brazenly lifted one of my images and ran it on its website along with a higher resolution version.
Now, if anyone is wondering why I haven’t commented on a certain situation going on in the blogosphere, it’s because I’ve agreed not to. Both parties have been in touch and both know that if push comes to shove then I will give a truthful account of events and produce documentation/logs of uploading etc. at the required time.
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Many thanks for the kind words, Neil. As always, very much appreciated, you’re too kind.
I will just say that I think I probably speak for *many* regular vistors to your blog that it would indeed be a real shame if this blog had to close, so here’s hoping you find a way to keep it going, even if it means cutting it back. After all, little and often is still better than none at all – as they say, and it would be a shame to lose altogether an obvious talent on the web in terms of humour, satire and adept ‘photo-shoppery’.
Sincere thank again for your comments