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Is this enough of an infringment to report? How the hell someone who owns Windstones can think these ugly things are unpainted statues is beyond me…
I was looking for amber things on ebay, and found this pipe. It looks familiar. XD
Oh my! That one looks like another case of someone staring directly at the sculpt and recreating it. I wonder why people go to such great lengths to copy other people’s work… isn’t it easier to just use it as inspiration and create your own piece? XD
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Edit : Now that I look through them, I found another! This has got to be the Emperor and the Hatching dragons. XD
Honestly, his dragon pipes are my least favorites of all he’s done. >.>;
Makes you wonder if any of his designs are really ‘his’ or not…
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Edit August 15th, 2010: Hey guys I notice that the lots of you don’t mention if you reported it to John by email. Please let me know if you did. If you don’t want to do it yourself please PM me so I’ll do it for you on your behalf. This is important to John and Windstone. We need to know if it was emailed to John. john at windstoneeditions dot com (put an “@” instaid of “at” and a “.” instaid of “dot” and close the gaps)
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😀 Hi,
I thought it might be a good idea to make one single thread for fakes. Several of you can not find John’s email so by creating this thread if you need to report a fake you can look up John’s email here at the first post and post it at the same time.
I’ll ask Jen if we can make it a sticky. 😉
When you do post a find, please let us know if you did email John or not about it. This way he doesn’t get several emails about the same item.
Thank youFAKES! Email John: john at windstoneeditions dot com
If you see a fake reproduction of a Windstone please email John with the link to that piece. All Windstones Editions and Maya sculptures are copyright and are not to be reproduced in any form by anyone else other then Windstone Editions!
This includes color, form, pose, molds and different mediums like Jewelry, prints….To read more on copyright infrigement , go to:
http://www.windstoneeditions.com/copyright%20&%20the%20law.htm
EDIT: Jennifer here guys. Just to let you know, Windstone has something called a Trade Dress on Windstone products. To put it simply- not only can Windstone protect itself from DIRECT fakes/copies, but anything that is close enough to have the look/style of a Windstone. This does include coloration to an extent too (e.g. a dragon painted with the same exact colors in the same places as a Windstone- EVEN IF the sculpture itself does not look like a Windstone).
To see examples of what I’m talking about, and examples of fakes, see here:http://community.livejournal.com/windstone_ed/35936.html
http://community.livejournal.com/windstone_ed/59178.html
These are good guidelines for determining if it is a fake or not:
http://community.livejournal.com/windstone_ed/24344.htmlIf in doubt, report it! This helps Windstone out immensely.
Okay guys, as a reminder:
Outright Copyright Infringements:
Please email them to John directly if you feel it is an infringement. If you’re not sure feel free to ask us our opinions here, but in the end if no one emails them to John, he might not see them in time. He doesn’t check here often. Please do not report these or write to the seller. John is the only one legally allowed to pursue actual infringements.
Keyword Spamming:
These YOU can help us out and report! 🙂 John does not need to report these, and in reality probably doesn’t have the time to do so himself. These can be reported directly to eBay by going to the page that is Keyword Spamming. On the right side, underneath the block that contains the username, feedback number, Item location, etc… you will see three links. “Share” — “Print” — “Report Item”. Click Report Item. There is a dropdown menu and you will want ‘listing violations (improper keywords..)”. Then there is a second drop down menu, where you can select “Keyword Spamming”. Click submit and you’re done, and have done us and eBay a big favor! 🙂Hey guys just a friendly reminder that John’s contact info(email) is on the first page in this thread in the first post besie John’s name written in big red letters. 😉
Found this, the pose is kind of like the mother dragon, but the colors are very like old peacock with purple blue and green and gold accents. Haven’t sent it to John because I’m not sure if it’s enough of an infringement.
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