Crediting is not that hard when it's on the webpage

[psCargile]

There is nothing like doing some internet research and running across your art on someone else's page, and not finding credit or links back to the lifted intellectual property. And not only the art, but whole descriptions copied.

USS Akira

Starfleet Military Reserves

I know I'm not the easiest guy to get in touch with, but throw my name in there somewhere and say I did it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Send them a message and explain copyright laws to them.

 

[psCargile]

Since there is now direct way to contact them other than to join, I had to leave a guestbook entry at the parent website. I then posted here in case the owner of the site, or members of the site are also members here, or if any member here is familiar with them. But honestly, I doubt anyone will comply with my wishes, and it not something I can actually enforce. I can only raise awareness of the situation.

In regards to the SMR website, I created that in 1998 with other contributors, generating a username/password from an email account from a local internet provider that isn't around anymore, so I have no way logging into the Tripod account to edit or delete the whole thing, and then when I did contact Tripod about it, I had no way of proving ownership of the site because the email account I used was no longer active. So it's a permanent fixture of the internet.

 

[Timewalker]

You might get more useful advice or help if you posted this in the General Trek area of the forum. This area is for miscellaneous non-Trek discussion.

 

[Forbin]

Ah, the internet.
It's also fun when someone lifts one of your schematics, strips off all the text and callouts, and puts it up and a facebook site with nasty commentary on the design. :/

 

[Kor]

If you can't reach the webmaster, can't you contact the hosting service and demand that they remove the offending content?

Kor

 

[137th Gebirg]

To make matters worse, this Luna-class ship is named "Akira", which could be interpreted as yet another sideways spank against Sean Tourangeau's Titan design that has been accused multiple times (over the course of 10+ years) of too closely resembling to the Akira class.

 

[psCargile]

I'm not a fan of the Luna class, cut out sections waste space--why leave those areas forward the bridge open? Is there any consideration for the internal layout? All that space behind the shuttle bay should be the shuttle bay.

Congratulations to contest winners, but contest winners are a reflection of the judges, and it's apparent the judges wanted something familiar that fit with the era, and was more cool looking than functional. If you want to award someone for coping Eaves and Jaeger instead of seeking fresh and original, go ahead. I'm not impressed.

Let's set higher standards and push forward.

 

[BorgMan]

Ah, yes, the Luna. I remember quite vividly how Sean once told me: "the nacelles are not copied from the Akira, I drew them from scratch."

Then again, I think that the basic shape his Luna has going could work fine. It's just the execution that has always bugged me...

 

[MarsWeeps]

There is nothing like doing some internet research and running across your art on someone else's page, and not finding credit or links back to the lifted intellectual property. And not only the art, but whole descriptions copied.

USS Akira

Starfleet Military Reserves

I know I'm not the easiest guy to get in touch with, but throw my name in there somewhere and say I did it.

So what exactly on those 2 links is your own artwork?

 

[Maurice]

Watermarks over the ship. Only real answer.

 

[psCargile]

So what exactly on those 2 links is your own artwork?

Almost all of the text and ideas are either mine or the coauthors of my old site.Warp core, weapons, transporters. You too lazy to cross-reference yourself?

 

[MarsWeeps]

Almost all of the text and ideas are either mine or the coauthors of my old site.Warp core, weapons, transporters. You too lazy to cross-reference yourself?

You are the one who came on here whining about someone stealing your artwork without explaining anything except providing a few links which doesn't tell us anything.

either there is some ongoing issue between ye two or you are very defensive towards a simple question.

I never heard of him before he showed up here all butt hurt about his alleged artwork.

 

[psCargile]

And not only the art, but whole descriptions copied.

From the first post.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Well. This has gone downhill fast...

 

[Kail]

You will have to get use to it

Hard as it might be to accept, its just the way things are.
I myself have put logos on my work but it does not only stop people from cropping them off, but some even tried pass them off as their own work

You should view it as a compliment that people see your work as worthy for use.
Sad reality is the only sure way of protecting your work is to not post it, other than that someone somewhere will take it, its just the way it is.

I have found my artwork all over the net, without credit, or having my logos taken off. It use to make me mad, but there is no alternative other then watermarking them, which IMO is destroying them, or don't post. I try to just let it go. But what REALLY made me mad was when they A) claim it as their own, even taking compliments for it, or B) they are selling it on stuff on Ebay. You could spend your whole life trying to get them taken down. Life is to short.

 

[BillJ]

Well. This has gone downhill fast...