The paper toy network

Pirated paper toys

So some one recently pointed out to me that a store in Singapore was selling my FREE templates as flat packs. When I confronted them they pointed me to the company from which they purchased them. http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-0db2-d564d045b68b66e7123...

Isn't that awesome? They also use my logo here, but I have no idea what anything says. http://shop35118716.taobao.com/shop/xshop/wui_page-16276919.htm

You might want to check and see if you find any of your work here as well.

So I asked the store to contact this other company to ask them to stop selling my stuff, and they said they will stop. I guess we'll see.

I guess over all it is very flattering, but it really sucks when an artist spends so much time on something, and then gives it away for free, and then someone else just steals it and makes a profit from it. Lame. :(

Oh well, onward and upward I guess. :)

Brian

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Permalink Reply by Castleforte on September 28, 2009 at 10:19am: Ugh! man this is so annoying.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Luke 'Glood' on September 28, 2009 at 7:19am: That is really not fair! If they can sell em u should try selling stuff; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eric Wiryanata on September 30, 2009 at 1:32am: like i mention before maybe someone can start this,

i sell some batch of lemi pattern during a convention a few weeks ago.
...

but somehow, i still love to share the papertoys for free.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alexander Gwynne on September 28, 2009 at 8:52am: wow....that would anoy me soooo mutch

But atleast this proves that people are willing to pay for your work right?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Marc on September 29, 2009 at 7:42am: This is not funny... The artist is making no profit, and that shop is selling all the papercrafts... Not fair...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eric Wiryanata on October 4, 2009 at 7:05am: i just said that i felt left out about not being pirated... now i found Lemi there...
and because i can't read chinese, i don't know how to contact the website.

anyone know their email?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by CGD on October 4, 2009 at 7:19am: I found this in a section about intellectual property dispute:
qinquan@taobao.com

http://66.163.168.225/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&...

Babelfish is better than nothing, I guess.
Reporting individual taobao users would possibly get them banned, I imagine.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eric Wiryanata on October 4, 2009 at 8:34pm: i've sent one

Dear Taobao.

i just want to tell you that one of your seller selling fake stuff.
they sell something that is not supposed to be sell.
http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-0db1-95d9a9e5d20b895ac99...

it infringe a copyright law, and we want it to be taken down.

Thank You
Eric Wirjanata; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JustUs on October 5, 2009 at 6:50am: did anyone saw my stuff there?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Luke 'Glood' on October 8, 2009 at 9:04am: If anybody sees my toys please let me know; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Eric Wiryanata on October 9, 2009 at 2:15am: this is their reply

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Permalink Reply by VinsArt on October 9, 2009 at 3:12am: Even if I have not found again my stolen personal models, the thing makes me a lot of anger and worries a lot me;
more times it has happened to me the same thing with my photos or others my artistic things.
the attempt proposed by DMC seems me the best,
to contact them as group and to threaten them of legal cause.
in more each of us should always have open eyes in the web, and to signal here and to the author if it finds some stolen models, even if they are not his.

to castleforte I would want to say that probably if theirs remove indeed his/her models from that site,
it is only a bluff, because they will put him on another similar website, because these websites are born and they close as mushrooms.
Vins; ▶ Reply to This