Pravda Speaks!

[ursulav]

When last we left our intrepid adventurers, art4love.com was down, markyourspot.com was down, (although zombie versions were still be located) nobody was answering phones or e-mail, and much of the internet was hopping mad.

Today, I actually finally got an acknowledgment from Craig Pravda. This guy is A) the name on the paypal account of art4love,

Comments

[paradigmshifty]

I'm still finding the name "Pravda" to be one of the most ironic parts of this entire tale.

[bastet8300]

I was just going to say that!!

[timprov]

Well, you know, octopus salad. I can understand why that would be important to somebody.

(Then again, I was evacuated out of a hostage situation by SWAT guys with assault rifles on Wednesday, and was mostly worried about it depriving me of the pumpkin burrito I was going to have for lunch. So I may not be the person to define appropriate priorities.)

[stormteller]

You have successfully plugged your own journal.

[timprov]

As long as people don't expect me to top it with something more exciting. Though I guess there's always sweet potato pizza.

[archangelbeth]

Yow.

I'm glad you got your burrito.

[neotoma]

I'd think the phrase 'sold their entire collection' could be construed as acknowledgement that they were infringing on the rights-holder's copyrights for profit. Which is the sort of admission you wouldn't want brought up in a case against you in civil court, I should think.

An IP lawyer would probably make a lot of hay with that response -- you've screen-capped it, right?

It's kind of fun seeing this idiot -- and I doubt it's more than one or two idiots working as a team -- dig himself deeper.

[banshea]

I read it as, "It wasn't really our responsibility to begin with, but we don't have it anymore, so don't bother bugging us about it."

[kevinbunny]

More likely it was a case of 'we were printing up our 'limited' prints on-demand using a glicee printer, so now we just won't sell any more'...

[acoustic_rob]

Wait...this guy stole art from Marvel and DC too?

Who are owned by Disney and Time-Warner, respectively?

Woo boy. Hope he has good lawyers. Because *they* certainly do....

[banshea]

As I understand it, not directly, but some of the art he's attempted to sell at a high profit is fan art that was only permissible because the creators weren't profiting from it...

[smurasaki]

At least one of the DC pictures was by an actual DC artist, a convention sketch, I believe, though it had been fan-colored. That may still not be directly, but...

[skellington1]

My understanding is that banshea above is correct, but that still is in 'piss off Disney' territory, and as my dad the lawyer taught me well, the First Rule of Copyright Law is...

DON'T FUCK WITH THE MOUSE.

[banshea]

Ooh! Ooh! Somebody should pose as a reporter who wants to write an article about Chad Love's balls and use the interview access to grill him about his thievery.