Pixela, myself and others stolen work

[TimothyBack1]

Hi all.

 

I received an email this morning from someone in Germany. Someone applied for a job using my work and he was warning me of it. Looking through the portfolio I noticed work from heaps of great artists, some stuff that has been stolen went best of evermotion, most notably Pixela's work. I went to the guys website and he is also pimping it there.

 

http://www.pixall.ch/?nointro

 

pascal.enz@pixall.ch

 

Please let this foolish person know what you think about this stupid behaviour.

[Justin Hunt]

What an idiot, and to choose such high profile work too, I hope you gave him a piece of your mind.

[Cjmcphail]

What a ****

[TimothyBack1]

I did, hopefully some other people from this forum and others will email him some choice words as well. I'll never understand the point of it, imagine his clients dissapointment when they see the quality of renderings he can produce as compared to Pixela or Ramon Zancanaro.

[Cjmcphail]

The thing is its not like there is one or 2 sneaky images in there that are not his, there are heaps.

[Justin Hunt]

I dont suppose he has had the decency to reply?

[TimothyBack1]

No reply as of yet, will keep you posted. Yeah he certainly wasn't sneaky about it......Pixela's bedroom scene is about as obvious as it gets, I notice a few Peter Guthrie images in there too. Virtually everything in there is familiar though, I wonder if he did any of it.

[Boris Horosavin]

ahaha!!! i just visited the site... the guy is brilliant in his stupidity. of, course, the question is: are there any legal and material repercussions available and is it realistic that he could answer for such blunt theft as this one.

[RyderSK]

I think there is a legal action possible..after all, it's registered in Swiss domain.

[senrikyu]

I had a similar situation a few years ago: a guy sent me his portfolio and he had some of MY work in it. I totally went off on him and he claimed it was a "mistake". A year later, he sent me the same portfolio again (stupidly forgot he'd already sent it to me) and again it had my work in it. I threatened legal action. I also had a client of mine (an ad agency) put my work on their site and claim they did it- even though my contract with the stated that I owned all portfolio rights and copyrights. The problem in both cases was that to pursue any legal action against them would have been very costly. $10,000 to $25,000 just to begin litigation. And lawyers typically don't want to just write scary letters if you have zero intention of taking action. So, even a scary letter requires research time, etc, on the part of the lawyer. Is it worth$10,000 to pursue something that will probably not even end up in court? Of course not. Slimebags like this guy are aware that they can get away with a lot. He'll probably sucker some poor client with his fake portfolio, but it will eventually catch up with him. What a loser that guy is!