From the course: Copyright for Creatives: Protecting Your Work
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Creative proxies
From the course: Copyright for Creatives: Protecting Your Work
Creative proxies
- [Narrator] The second category of infringer is what I refer to as creative proxies. These are still individuals who create an account with an online service to showcase, sell, offer their creative services or compete to win a design contest. There are many services that cater to this audience. Most are geared towards crowd sourcing creative work and infringers are drawn to these proxies like moths are drawn to a light source at night. I've stopped counting how many times an infringer has used one of these three services to post, sell, and use my artwork over the years. Once someone has your artwork, they can set up an online account with a proxy, then upload your artwork as their own and start selling it through the proxy service. They will use other proxy services like Behanced which offers portfolios and they'll post your work as if they created it. These types of infringements take a little more time to respond to and usually require you to send a DMCA letter to the proxy service…
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