Want to spread this as far as possible
There is currently a book on the market called 'Colorful Illustrations 93c' retailing online for $100. DO NOT BUY IT. According to here and here it is completely plagiarised.
The illustrations and interviews are lifted completely as is from the website (including changes between American and English spellings, grammar and just general typos) from The Little Chimp Society. This has only just come to light at the end of last week so the owner of LCS is in the process of trying to get in touch with all the illustrators whose copyright has been infringed by this book.
Obviously even if all the illustrators do decide they want to assert their copyright claims in court, even under a class action, the major problem is going to be money. As the illustrator on the second site I linked to says, he's lucky if he's got enough money to pay bills for the next couple of months. So what they're encouraging at the moment is to spread the word that this book is plagiarised and has no original content in it so that hopefully no-one will buy it.
The illustrations and interviews are lifted completely as is from the website (including changes between American and English spellings, grammar and just general typos) from The Little Chimp Society. This has only just come to light at the end of last week so the owner of LCS is in the process of trying to get in touch with all the illustrators whose copyright has been infringed by this book.
Obviously even if all the illustrators do decide they want to assert their copyright claims in court, even under a class action, the major problem is going to be money. As the illustrator on the second site I linked to says, he's lucky if he's got enough money to pay bills for the next couple of months. So what they're encouraging at the moment is to spread the word that this book is plagiarised and has no original content in it so that hopefully no-one will buy it.