This started making the rounds yesterday. The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai. I thought it important to post here. Wanted your thoughts to be a part of the conversation.
IMHO, this is:
Exciting.
Scary.
Different.
Opportunistic.
Cannibalistic.
Visionary.
Divisive.
Should we celebrate it or hate it? Lawsuits or a new suit of clothes that recognizes the times?
Two obvious sides with no obvious answer. And on and on… It’s our newest classic challenge as a rapidly evolving industry with the rapid deployment and sharing of information.
What say you?
(via the nice folks at fstoppers)
Dude, nice way to make me speechless! 🙂
I have two opinions on this and it boils down to “Did they make money or not?”
If they (they being the people who have used this image without authorisation) did make money out of it then they need to pay him royalties appropriate to the usage and give him attribution where-ever possible
If they didn’t make money out of it (i.e. the freedom fighters etc) then they should give attribution where-ever possible (obviously they’re not going to go and grafiti a URL on a wall in a war zone just to give him attribution)
Clearly its more complicated than this and would need individual decsions made about certain cases but I feel its a rule that could be broadly applied
Thank you for posting this. I really feel for him. He must be both gutted that such worldwide recognition for an image he created is being taken by others, and also the violation he has experienced by the theft of his work.
I would have been fuming and very upset if this had happened to me. Yes, I would have liked to have been paid, but it would have been so much more painful having no recognition (other than friends and family) for my work. He had created this art, and others had ripped it of. He may have missed out on other opportunities, i.e. future commissions from the mags who published it etc.
This has really made me think about what I do about posting my images online in the future. But, it does lead me to ask myself the question why I am posting particular work online, (1) to be noticed for critique, enjoyment of others, putting art out into the world, (2) do I want to be paid for it, or ensure my name is linked to it for promotion.
With these 2 questions in my mind and this video, I will be considering my choices of what I put up, where, and how.
Cheers Chase, another great and informative blog post.
Matt
its a form of piracy. I can visualize what he feels and what revolves within his head in this regard and am feeling sorry for him. Almost everybody takes advantage of piracy one or the other way…..this video made me realize how the creator of the original feels when he sees the stolen stuff all around him…..unmonitored, unscreened……UNFAIR!
He need to get paid! Plain and simple.
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