From the course: Insights on Illustrative Design

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On copyright infringement

On copyright infringement

usually the way copyright infringement happens for me is that the first thing I do in the morning, open my inbox, check my email and usually it happens by me gettin an email and saying, I didn't know you created this or have you seen this. And I open it up and It's some company is using my artwork here or there on a product, or some individual is selling my artwork on, on goods or, or, they have it posted on their website. And so some of them, to one degree or other, are pretty minimal, where I just send 'em an email and I say, can you please remove this? They do, it's done. Other ones that really become a, a legal problem is there is one company based out of Australia. And a designer over there was familiar with my work and had seen this skull design I did. And it was being used by this company in their corporate identity. And literally on everything, on their products, on their packaging, on their, their vehicles they would, they would take to the events where they would promote…

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