Creator finds copy of product on Amazon

[Dannyalcatraz]

I watched this video a couple of days ago. (I'm subscribed to the channel.) I have friends who have had things like their T-Shirt art stolen and resold. I've had my pictures downloaded and sold. People who will steal from creatives have zero conscience and China is the Wild West for art theft.

We have a fridge magnet with badly photoshopped images of our 2nd and 3rd border collies on it. We don’t know how the manufacturer got a photo of our dogs, because this would have been in the mid/late 1990s, and we weren’t sharing pix online back then.

 

[Ryujin]

We have a fridge magnet with badly photoshopped images of our 2nd and 3rd border collies on it. We don’t know how the manufacturer got a photo of our dogs, because this would have been in the mid/late 1990s, and we weren’t sharing pix online back then.

Were they shot professionally, or were they your own snaps? If professionally then they might have been part of someone's portfolio as well, and those get shared like crazy whether online, or not.

 

[lynnfredricks]

It is frustrating as a creator but, this is absolutely nothing new in business.

If you share something publicly and possibly demonstrate its worth in the market, someone is going to copy it. And they will likely provide something extra to (at least minimally) differentiate themselves.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Were they shot professionally, or were they your own snaps? If professionally then they might have been part of someone's portfolio as well, and those get shared like crazy whether online, or not.

I mean, it’s not like we’re unaware of the possibilities, we just don’t know the particulars.

It was at a low-budget photo place, like the services offered at department stores and some drug stores back then. The dogs are together in front of one of those “marbled” backdrops. One is seated, the other is lying down.

But as those places ceased operations, they had to do SOMETHING with the photos & negatives they still possessed. So it’s quite possible they got sold or even dumped.

 

[Waller]

Huh. So I watched the video. It's not a copy of her product, it's just a product in the same category---book nooks--as hers (a category which existed before hers). She was even confused how to make and use it, as it's different to hers. It's kinda similar thematically, but a lot of that stuff is--"library in a stone castle" isn't exactly an idea she invented, and neither are the mirrors etc.

She's got 4M followers on YouTube and works in a very expensive looking studio. I think she's doing OK. She's not a little underdog here.

 

[Jahydin]

And to be clear, for those that don't follow her, she only made the one. She's not mass producing these.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I struggle to comprehend how people can imagine that ideas are something they can own.