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helix7:

Check out http://vectorstock.com/artist/?name=simon_jakub

I already wrote in to vectorstock to let them know about my icons being sold by this guy, but I'm not sure what else in his portfolio is stolen. Anyone recognize anything?

bittersweet:
I'm sure there will be a few people here who think that his changing the color and moving the position on the page makes them somehow "different".  ::) (Like the guy who came here trying to get support for his rip-off of half of Tom Nulens's portfolio.) Obviously it is a blatant rip-off and if you were exclusive with istock, I'd say contact jeffyd and I'd be surprised if they aren't taken down today (assuming vectorstock is as responsive to their warnings as other sites have been). However, since you are not, it might take longer for istock to first investigate whether you are selling them elsewhere, and only then will they contact vectorstock if they are convinced that the purchase was made from istock.

Some of the other images are familiar to me, but I'm going to have to search a bit to place them. Any time someone's "style" is all over the place like that, it should be a red flag that they need to be checked out. Sometimes it's just artist experimentation, but clearly that is probably not the case here.

helix7:

--- Quote from: bittersweet on August 22, 2008, 08:46 ---...only then will they contact vectorstock if they are convinced that the purchase was made from istock...

--- End quote ---

I'm not sure where he bought them, so I haven't contacted istock or any other company yet. Hopefully vectorstock will just pull the images quickly.

bittersweet:
Cool. Good luck with that!

Microbius:
how do you get his portfolio up on that site?

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