Hi Guys:
If you look at this website you will easily find my artwork that is "for sale."
dimitrid.multiply.com/
The owner of the site has alot of my artwork up on her site and is offering to sell prints of my artwork.
I contacted her and the owner of the domain site and haven't received a reply yet.
I have called Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts where I live and left a message.
This organization has helped me in the past and will doubtless do so again.
The lawyers in this organization work free of charge.
However, PLEASE look at the upper right hand corner at the image or avatar of dimitrid.
Does her avatar look familiar to you?
I think I have seen her avatar on tribe.
If you have seen it, please let me know and do NOT communicate with her directly because it would not be helpful.
Thank you.
:)
If you look at this website you will easily find my artwork that is "for sale."
dimitrid.multiply.com/
The owner of the site has alot of my artwork up on her site and is offering to sell prints of my artwork.
I contacted her and the owner of the domain site and haven't received a reply yet.
I have called Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts where I live and left a message.
This organization has helped me in the past and will doubtless do so again.
The lawyers in this organization work free of charge.
However, PLEASE look at the upper right hand corner at the image or avatar of dimitrid.
Does her avatar look familiar to you?
I think I have seen her avatar on tribe.
If you have seen it, please let me know and do NOT communicate with her directly because it would not be helpful.
Thank you.
:)
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 10:11 AMi did a people search for dmitrid- and nothing shwed up
then dimitri-
but they all looked wrong
and then dimitri d (as a last name)
and nothing
how did you find out!?!
she must be an ebayer?
or is she involved in that site where you have stuff ...i saw a thread in art investment... can't remember the name ...
i'll go look...
this...
www.artmajeur.com/kuriloff/
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 10:18 AMi just did a quick scan of your tribes and she didn't seem to be there...
now i am going to go google my name and see if i find anything weird...
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Wed, January 18, 2006 - 10:27 AMif you havn't noticed this really has me steamed-
i lokked at her 'profile' which says nothing- but her face is familiar -
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 12:13 PMI know.
Her face is very, very familiar.
lol
I did a search of the url of her site and then did a search on www.whois.net and found out who owns the domain name.
Anyone can set up a site on www.multiply.com.
But, I already emailed the owner of the domain and haven't had a response yet.
I haven't done all I plan to do yet.
I am taking it one step at a time.
I just spoke to a law student at VLA, who is going to find out what my options are from a practicing lawyer and get back to me tomorrow. -
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 12:14 PMMy images are on a great many sites.
She could have gotten them from ebsq, in addition to other places.
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 12:51 PMsorry this happened to you nina. i don't know who this is but just looked at the photos on the profile and she does look familiar. have you printed that page (in color if possible) with the images and her profile showing her photos?
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 12:59 PMdid you see her blog - she mentions being in montevideo, uruguay, but i don't know if that's where she lives now. my spanish is beyond rusty.
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 18, 2006 - 10:43 PMThanks for your sympathies, Hiromi.
I just joined multiply.com so that I could comment under my artwork.
My comment was as you can imagine, my telling her that what she is doing is illegal.
I will let you know how this all turns out.
Thanks again.
:)
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 10:02 AMHow did you find out about this????? The nerve of some people! It never ceases to amaze me..... good luck!!
Denise -
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 10:21 AMThanks, Denise.
I found out about this by googling my name.
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Thu, January 19, 2006 - 12:22 PMI'm so sorry, Nina.
Have you tried these people for help:
www.artcc.org/home.html
spreli resurfaced today on ebay selling two of my pieces. I feel silly complaining about it with your dealing with this serious issue.
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Thu, January 19, 2006 - 2:51 PMThanks very much for the link, Laura.
:)
I will call the owner of the domain tomorrow and see if I can get someplace.
I will try your link for help.
I hope I will hear from the lawyer tomorrow.
What is spreli's new user id on ebay, Laura?
It's amazing how these folk who get naru'd keep on returning with new user ids.
How many more paintings does spreli have of yours, Laura?
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Thu, January 19, 2006 - 3:56 PMNina, I am so sorry to hear about this. VLA has been quite helpful when I have contacted them in the past about a copyright infringement issue of my own. (They were not able to encourage me to act, as it was an international incident.)
I periodically google myself for the same reason.
Please keep us posted.
Teresa (who does not like the new tribe setup!!!)
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Fri, January 20, 2006 - 8:10 AMHi Nina,
He got himself reinstated under his old IDs: spreli and zpreli.
I believe he has five of mine. He is only listing two. He has at least one zen one. I don't remember the others.
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Fri, January 20, 2006 - 3:49 PMTeresa,
Thank you.
I will keep you all updated.
Laura,
So, there are only 3 more paintings to go and then you will not have to be concerned with him.
I didn't know that people who've been naru'd could have themselves reinstated.
I wonderful what these people have to do to become reinstated.
Hmmmm.
Perhaps they pay greedbay a hefty fee to become reinstated?
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Sun, January 22, 2006 - 5:23 PMNina, she does look familiar... have you found out anything?
Laura, sorry about this, I know two other people who are having it happen right now.
No fee to get reinstated - they have to convince the people who gave buyer no pay strikes to take them back. At least that's what happened with a suspended buyer who wrote me to get rid of a strike... -
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Unsu...
Re: copyright infringement problem
Mon, January 23, 2006 - 6:35 AMWHAT TOTAL CREEPS!!!!
I am so sorry you are both dealing with these crooks!
GRRRRRRRR!!!!!
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Tue, January 24, 2006 - 5:44 AMMy mom has an ID that she and I use for whenever we have "stuff" we want to sell off. I had an NPB on that one who wrote a nasty email blaming me for her getting NARU'd. You don't get NARU for just one infraction, but she still felt justified in pointing the finger at me. I had told her before that I would mutually agree to end the transaction if and only if the under-bidder agreed to a second-chance offer, so it was still sold. I sent two and neither bought, so I explained this was the only way to get the FVF back. She had every opportunity to pay but chose not to.
I'm sure some people back down and don't file the NPB, or agree to withdraw it for fear of neg. FB as retaliation. Has ebay implemented that policy yet of NPBs not being allowed to leave FB?
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Tue, January 24, 2006 - 2:42 PMMy problem is over!
An administrator of multipy.com, who I reported the abuse of the site to, a 2nd time (today) removed my images from the site of the thief!
*breathing a sigh of relief*
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Tue, January 24, 2006 - 5:53 PMCongratulations, Nina.
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 25, 2006 - 5:37 AMI'm glad you got it resolved, Nina.
It is unfortunate that we all have to be on the watch for people stealing images of our work.
Teresa
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Wed, January 25, 2006 - 8:11 AMThank you very much, Laura, Teresa, and Denise.
:)
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Re: copyright infringement problem
Tue, January 31, 2006 - 8:39 AMThanks, Hiromi.
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