The hypocrisy of authors

[Dhivael]

From time to time I find stories of scribble hub in which the author claims full copyright, telling us that copying any part of their story violates the copyright law.

But then they go ahead and tell us that they got their cover picture for their novel from somewhere on the Internet. And if the original creator wants it gone he/she should just notify the author.

Just like here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/255452/caring-mother/

This work, Caring Mother, is the original work and intellectual property of Queen. All rights are reserved. No part of this story, including characters, plot, and content, may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the author. Unauthorized copying, distribution, or use of this material is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of copyright law.

PS: the cover photo isn't mine if owner wants it taken down please let me know.

What the hell!? If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from. By logic of the author it would be perfectly fine to copy authors story to a different platform and to benefit from it monetarily, claiming I would take it down the instant the original author found it and tells me to remove it.

*Sigh*

Hypocrisy at its best.

Cheers

Dhivael

PS.: just felt the need to rant a little.

 

[Empress_Omnii]

If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from.

While I agree that the hypocrisy is there and the authors are in the wrong for taking the art without permission. That does not make it fair for the authors work to have the same treatment.
No matter the crime committed the perpetrator doesn't give up their rights to be defended from the same.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

There is a thing called "Due Diligence" - if you use someone else's art (ESPECIALLY photographs that show people), you really should try to locate the original artist (and any people shown in the image) for permission. Sometimes this is impossible, for example you find the image on Pinterest or something and the person who has it there found it via Google Search years ago and has no idea even how they found it or something.
An "I did a basic search and was unable to locate the artist. If anyone knows who created this, please have them get in touch with me for proper crediting or removal, at their discretion" note would be the polite thing to do.
Usually, authors are much easier to locate than photographers, and other artists may either embed signatures in the image that you need special readers to find, or just not bother signing them, making their providence tricky to ascertain (especially with some popular images that may be scrubbed of signatures and passed off as original by others).

 

[Aijikan]

From time to time I find stories of scribble hub in which the author claims full copyright, telling us that copying any part of their story violates the copyright law.

But then they go ahead and tell us that they got their cover picture for their novel from somewhere on the Internet. And if the original creator wants it gone he/she should just notify the author.

Just like here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/255452/caring-mother/





What the hell!? If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from. By logic of the author it would be perfectly fine to copy authors story to a different platform and to benefit from it monetarily, claiming I would take it down the instant the original author found it and tells me to remove it.

*Sigh*

Hypocrisy at its best.

Cheers

Dhivael

PS.: just felt the need to rant a little.

You've really got that much time to nagg about a internet free art. I mean there are tons of arts like this in pinterest and they've posted it PUBLICALLY. It means they approve us to use or do anything with the copy or else they would've kept it for some kind of premium membership or clients.

And seriously bro, if your book is not big(not more then 1M views) than no one gives a literal fk about it's art or cover. These books are something you'll read, enjoy but when it ends, eventually you'll forget it's elements, it's story and even it's title.

For this author, I think at first he might have used a different cover but when book became fairly generative and popular, he used a different cover and this time, he didn't need to change the synopsis or the copyrights so he might've forgotten it. Instead of posting it in this thread, you can make a review or comment on his story -_-

 

[Xcalibur_Xc]

AI Images. As for og images, its hard to track down the owner because anyone can say that they are the owner of that pic. I remember one time someone accused me of stealing an image on RR and the admins removed that image from my book then I showed that person and admin the record of the AI generator lol. Never heard from them again. Hahaha. Anyway, if its out there on multiple open platforms, then it's probably for free.

 

[beast_regards]

Artist seem to be always outraged by the use of the AI ...

... but only by the minor actors, usually petty creators or the random people without any substantial income to even commission an artist ...

... when the large corporations employ the so called AI, the artists are suddenly silent.

 

[Tegeli]

Instead of worrying about your copyrights, just make art nobody would ever bother stealing. Problem solved.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Nice bait.

 

[PancakesWitch]

Artist seem to be always outraged by the use of the AI ...

... but only by the minor actors, usually petty creators or the random people without any substantial income to even commission an artist ...

... when the large corporations employ the so called AI, the artists are suddenly silent.

Silent? Do you live under a rock? There are always massive outrages when corporations use AI-generated images lol. People dislike it a lot and make it so clear the corporations have to apologize.

From time to time I find stories of scribble hub in which the author claims full copyright, telling us that copying any part of their story violates the copyright law.

But then they go ahead and tell us that they got their cover picture for their novel from somewhere on the Internet. And if the original creator wants it gone he/she should just notify the author.

Just like here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/255452/caring-mother/





What the hell!? If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from. By logic of the author it would be perfectly fine to copy authors story to a different platform and to benefit from it monetarily, claiming I would take it down the instant the original author found it and tells me to remove it.

*Sigh*

Hypocrisy at its best.

Cheers

Dhivael

PS.: just felt the need to rant a little.

I used to take art from gacha mobile games, which was already pre-owned by a gigantic mega corportation and the artist already got paid to do it, so it doesnt fucking matter anymore.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Silent? Do you live under a rock? There are always massive outrages when corporations use AI-generated images lol. People dislike it a lot and make it so clear the corporations have to apologize.

Some companies still employ it though - Wizards of the Coast has a lot of AI writing and art in their latest releases, or so I've been told (by both fans disappointed by this, and by people who hate the company pointing out yet another thing they've "done wrong") - have not consumed much of their stuff in the last five years myself.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Meanwhile, there's me, who makes his own art and novel...

 

[Gray_Mann]

Meanwhile, there's me enjoying AI art and laughing at all the whining. I'll make sure when I post my work, to pick the most obvious AI waifu-type thing just to spite everyone crying about it.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Meanwhile, there's me enjoying AI art and laughing at all the whining. I'll make sure when I post my work, to pick the most obvious AI waifu-type thing just to spite everyone crying about it.

With uuuge knockers. That would definetely 'spite me'. ???

 

[AnonUnlimited]

The main point I guess from this thread.

Hypocrisy bad.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

From time to time I find stories of scribble hub in which the author claims full copyright, telling us that copying any part of their story violates the copyright law.

But then they go ahead and tell us that they got their cover picture for their novel from somewhere on the Internet. And if the original creator wants it gone he/she should just notify the author.

Just like here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/255452/caring-mother/





What the hell!? If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from. By logic of the author it would be perfectly fine to copy authors story to a different platform and to benefit from it monetarily, claiming I would take it down the instant the original author found it and tells me to remove it.

*Sigh*

Hypocrisy at its best.

Cheers

Dhivael

PS.: just felt the need to rant a little.

Murdering a murderer doesn't make it not murder. Apart from the fact that claiming full copyright is superfluous.

 

[melchi]

Nice bait.

This, TBH

 

[Fang_Yuan]

From time to time I find stories of scribble hub in which the author claims full copyright, telling us that copying any part of their story violates the copyright law.

But then they go ahead and tell us that they got their cover picture for their novel from somewhere on the Internet. And if the original creator wants it gone he/she should just notify the author.

Just like here: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/255452/caring-mother/





What the hell!? If author steals art from the Internet he or she should also be willing to be stolen from. By logic of the author it would be perfectly fine to copy authors story to a different platform and to benefit from it monetarily, claiming I would take it down the instant the original author found it and tells me to remove it.

*Sigh*

Hypocrisy at its best.

Cheers

Dhivael

PS.: just felt the need to rant a little.

It's a good thing I draw my own.... I can do whatever the f— I want with it ?

 

[Tsike]

Just use AI art. :-) can't be copyrighted.

 

[corruption]

Tried using tineye to find the original but failed. (tineye . com)
Figured to let the original owner know just to cause problems to the author

 

[Tsike]

Wonder what this guy would say if you steal his entire story, upload it somewhere, and then use the same disclaimer he uses:

"PS: the story isn't mine if owner wants it taken down please let me know."

Also make sure to never check your messages and deactivate that option if possible