by people looking to scam points on qishare then please direct your concerns here: contact@qishare.com and include as many details as you can about your items, including the links to them on the QiShare server. Also provide a link to the original location the art was offered. Whether it's Deviant Art or this forum. Hopefully that will clear up the ridiculous issue that's happening.
Thanks Ixnay!
I didn't even klnow about QiShare until yesterday when I received several emails from people telling me about my photography being stolen and uploaded there. I spent many hours last night going through the first 300 PAGES of photos and found several dozen of my pieces (some of them popular enough to be stolen 3 or 4 times by different people) and filed a report One asshole had the nerve to post TWENTY of my photos under their username!
The most frustrating thing about QiShare is their terms and conditions which grants themselves partial ownership and user rights to material:
I'm not sure how they can do that considering the fact that probably half the photos posted there are not posted by the original photographer/copyright holder and other than asking people when they sign up to only post their images they seem to hardly enforce it - many of the photos there are professional images or ones from magazines (believe me, in going through 300 pages worth I saw plenty of them multiple times) Its especially frustrating to see really nice original artwork (like Tenshigaka/Sarah's amazing pencil portraits) being reposted there with no mention of who the original artist is.By submitting your Content to QiShare, you hereby grant to QiShare, the other users within the QiShare Service and QiShare’s licensee’s, affiliates and assigns (collectively, the “QiShare Licensees”) a royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide license to do or authorize each of the following:
reproduce your Content, to incorporate your Content into one or more collective works, and to reproduce your Content as incorporated in the collective works;
create and reproduce derivative works of your Content;
distribute copies or phonorecords of, display publicly, perform publicly, and perform publicly by means of a digital audio transmission your Content or any derivative work thereof, including as incorporated in collective works; and
use any trademarks, service marks, or trade names incorporated into your material and use the likeness of any individual whose performance or image is contained in your material.
Also frustrating is when you take the time to watermark your photos (which much as I hate the looks of I've taken to doing on my recent work because I've had so much problem with theft) and find the watermarks photoshopped out (sometimes taking parts of a person with them) or even worse, somebody else making THEIR OWN watermarks on your work. (Whoever runs "Havok World Industries" may you rot in hell)
Considering how *this* board is very respectful of people's work and you are asked to only post you *OWN* work, it is really frustrating to see AFI open up such a "free for all" which appears to actually REWARD people points towards wining prizes for how much stuff they can steal from other people's web pages!
Last edited by sistinas; 09-01-06 at 03:21 AM.
Can we get a sticky on this or at least an official notice saying anyone doing this will have their accounts removed from either fanscape or QiShare? Or at least put influence on QiShare to moderate the content uploaded to their servers? It's a free for all and the dedicated fans giving to the community are being ripped off. And according to the terms and conditions, people are technically losing the rights to their own works due to low-life fans trying to win stuff from the band they don't deserve.
Wow sistinas thats horrible. I cant imagine why anyone would need to steal and even from you. They're point hungry and Im starting to think this was a horrible idea. Ive seen TONS of professional photographs posted by fans as well as work by some friends of mine, and it makes me sick. Id be very upset if someone stole my work. They need to be more strict if this is going to work. I couldnt even get them to reply to my email!
jeez...finally made it to the end of the photos at page 360 and found a bunch more I'll have to report to them tonight (all the ones I emailed them links to last night are still up)
I hate to think I'll have to do this on a daily basis but I am VERY ANGRY about their terms and conditions claiming ownership of what is on their site (simiar TOS ate also the reason I won't even post my OWN concert photos on my myspace page and won't give permission for them to others there either)
This is like saying "hey, I have a website and if you email me mp3s of your band then I can release them as I please and some 13 year old brat posts "Decemberunderground" and the site owner releases his own version - with the exception that AFI can probably afford some good copyright lawyers...
grrrrr my latest list of theives I'll have to add to the long one I collected last night. Ya know, I REALLY have better things to do with my time but it seems like I have to start to be more pro-active about ownership of my own work....
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=33060
uploaded by: cry1800
my original - http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Charlo...-03-davey6.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=33056
uploaded by: cry1800
and again here: http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=32896
also from cry1800
my original: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Greenbay/GreenBay14.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=33029
uploaded by: cry1800
and again here:
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=32971
also from cry1800
my original: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Phily2...ly-2006-59.jpg
small gif - http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Phily2...ly-2006-59.gif
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=32991
uploaded by: afiobsessoroi
photo of Davey in lower left is mine: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/London/london11.jpg
Central photo of Davey in white is mine: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/VAbeac...chWarped-1.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=32970
uploaded by cry1800
my original - http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Greenbay/GreenBay43.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=32899
uploaded by cry1800
my original: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/Raleig...gh-2006-15.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=26751
posted by Damnit_Janet
image on far right of Davey in white is mine: http://www.psychotica.net/afi/VAbeac...chWarped-1.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=26289
posted by evan@worldaudience.com
my original - http://www.psychotica.net/afi/VAbeac...hWarped-16.jpg
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=26279
posted by evan@worldaudience.com
my original - http://www.psychotica.net/afi/rochester/rochester1.jpg
and heres the Alan Forbes original I just bought!
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=28979
my copy of Dork - even says "collection of Elizabeth Bouras" on the side
http://www.qishare.com/afi/detail.php?id=29492
grrrrr
this thread should be called "hall of shame"
how rude.
sistinas did you get my email about the vinyl?
Originally Posted by sistinas
Cant be the most informed fan because they said its the all hallows ep original art.
I'm not sure - what was it about?
I'm not home right now so I don't have access to my email until later today.
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