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Perhaps a little late jumping in on this thread… but hey… 😀
Thank you Melody! It humbles me to be able to give life and character to your gorgeous sculptures! THANK YOU for reawakening my love of your artwork!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Watergazer wrote:I wanted to give Melody a special thank you for putting out the PYO line. Not only has it given me a new outlet for painting but also personal business as well. Thanks to Melody I’ve been able to pay off some really major bills.
I’m very happy to have and continue to be painting Windstones. I am wondering how it feels to see all of your creations come to life with all these painters, and how it feels to help support other artists out there like me. Not only does your company and products give a lot of joy to others but you’re helping fellow artists out there too…and on top of that make additional profit for your company and get to create a line of figures you can be more free to design with. It seems to me to be a great win/win/win combination and I just had to give you a lot of thanks because I’ve faced a lot of major house and medical bills and painting the PYOs has helped me keep my head above water.
Thanks Melody!I gotta tell you, my jaw never left the floor when I saw the first Pyos done by you, and everyone… I am simply amazed at the superb quality of these paintings. (I honestly expected the worst! Mostly, because I have such trouble painting them!)
I am just delighted beyond words that they are selling for good money painted, this is just wonderful.You guys have fun, make money, and we don’t gotta paint the things!
The only big problem we are facing with these pyo’s is trying to figure out how to handle the problem of folks painting and reselling pieces that are too similar to the production Windstone paint jobs… It is a sticky problem. We don’t want to be going around saying “HEY you can’t do that!” But, what should we do? Any suggestions?My thought is that 99% of the problem will go away if you just let them know you don’t want them to. It would never have crossed my mind that I shouldn’t, if I hadn’t been told so. That little slip of paper in with PYOs needs to have a short copyright notice, I think. That would probably be enough to keep the problem well down right there.
Melody wrote:Watergazer wrote:I wanted to give Melody a special thank you for putting out the PYO line. Not only has it given me a new outlet for painting but also personal business as well. Thanks to Melody I’ve been able to pay off some really major bills.
I’m very happy to have and continue to be painting Windstones. I am wondering how it feels to see all of your creations come to life with all these painters, and how it feels to help support other artists out there like me. Not only does your company and products give a lot of joy to others but you’re helping fellow artists out there too…and on top of that make additional profit for your company and get to create a line of figures you can be more free to design with. It seems to me to be a great win/win/win combination and I just had to give you a lot of thanks because I’ve faced a lot of major house and medical bills and painting the PYOs has helped me keep my head above water.
Thanks Melody!I gotta tell you, my jaw never left the floor when I saw the first Pyos done by you, and everyone… I am simply amazed at the superb quality of these paintings. (I honestly expected the worst! Mostly, because I have such trouble painting them!)
I am just delighted beyond words that they are selling for good money painted, this is just wonderful.You guys have fun, make money, and we don’t gotta paint the things!
The only big problem we are facing with these pyo’s is trying to figure out how to handle the problem of folks painting and reselling pieces that are too similar to the production Windstone paint jobs… It is a sticky problem. We don’t want to be going around saying “HEY you can’t do that!” But, what should we do? Any suggestions?I have one suggestion for this problem, it isnt a huge thing, but might prevent copying, but it will limit the company as well so it may not work:
Dont offer PYO in production pieces eye color. The only ones it will be really hard with is the dragons, but with the stone and eye you might be able too, just an idea.
ruffian wrote:Melody wrote:Watergazer wrote:I wanted to give Melody a special thank you for putting out the PYO line. Not only has it given me a new outlet for painting but also personal business as well. Thanks to Melody I’ve been able to pay off some really major bills.
I’m very happy to have and continue to be painting Windstones. I am wondering how it feels to see all of your creations come to life with all these painters, and how it feels to help support other artists out there like me. Not only does your company and products give a lot of joy to others but you’re helping fellow artists out there too…and on top of that make additional profit for your company and get to create a line of figures you can be more free to design with. It seems to me to be a great win/win/win combination and I just had to give you a lot of thanks because I’ve faced a lot of major house and medical bills and painting the PYOs has helped me keep my head above water.
Thanks Melody!I gotta tell you, my jaw never left the floor when I saw the first Pyos done by you, and everyone… I am simply amazed at the superb quality of these paintings. (I honestly expected the worst! Mostly, because I have such trouble painting them!)
I am just delighted beyond words that they are selling for good money painted, this is just wonderful.You guys have fun, make money, and we don’t gotta paint the things!
The only big problem we are facing with these pyo’s is trying to figure out how to handle the problem of folks painting and reselling pieces that are too similar to the production Windstone paint jobs… It is a sticky problem. We don’t want to be going around saying “HEY you can’t do that!” But, what should we do? Any suggestions?I have one suggestion for this problem, it isnt a huge thing, but might prevent copying, but it will limit the company as well so it may not work:
Dont offer PYO in production pieces eye color. The only ones it will be really hard with is the dragons, but with the stone and eye you might be able too, just an idea. hmmm… interesting idea…If we had some other type of eyes to use…
I think information is the key – not only does it let those uninformed know but it prevents people from trying to claim they didn’t know at a later point. I don’t know how many people are aware of Trade Dress as they are of Trade Mark or copyright, so an explanation of that would probably go a long way. I generally find that a lot of people are okay with a request as long as the explanation behind the reqest is logical or makes some kind of sense. Plus you guys are already polite and clear when explaining things, that also goes far!
The Windstone crew is awsome at dealing wiht things such as this, but some people will do what they want reguardless of how much info is in the box with the PYO’s, at least with a noticable difference, like eye color it would not be as easy to copy their work. The lady that copied the SK knew what she was doing was not right, she blaintanly admited that she copied the SK, she said she changed it enough to get around infringment. No matter what they do there will be people trying to copy them, but not being able to buy them with eye color that matches production pieces might deter some more.
I just think its a matter of people not knowing they cant copy a piant job. Perhaps on the invoice, let them know that copying production piece paint jobs is not allowed. I dont think changing the eye color is a good idea, only for the fact that the blue, straw, and red eyes are popular, AND Miss Melody may come out with a green eyed (Or pink eyed:) dragon, and then our selection would get even more limited. If you put it on the invoice, they will see it and perhaps not do it. Some people will do it no matter what you say or do, and those people will always exist. You just have to deal with them when the time comes.
ruffian wrote:The Windstone crew is awsome at dealing wiht things such as this, but some people will do what they want reguardless of how much info is in the box with the PYO’s, at least with a noticable difference, like eye color it would not be as easy to copy their work. The lady that copied the SK knew what she was doing was not right, she blaintanly admited that she copied the SK, she said she changed it enough to get around infringment. No matter what they do there will be people trying to copy them, but not being able to buy them with eye color that matches production pieces might deter some more.
This person actually didn’t know she was doing something wrong. We talked about her quite a bit here. I know you were there for the first part of the conversation, but we talked about her later, too. Folks actually contacted her.
ruffian wrote:The Windstone crew is awsome at dealing wiht things such as this, but some people will do what they want reguardless of how much info is in the box with the PYO’s, at least with a noticable difference, like eye color it would not be as easy to copy their work. The lady that copied the SK knew what she was doing was not right, she blaintanly admited that she copied the SK, she said she changed it enough to get around infringment. No matter what they do there will be people trying to copy them, but not being able to buy them with eye color that matches production pieces might deter some more.
I’m not sure how much the eye colour would deter people if they already think that people would prefer an non-official paint job of the official colours, it seems like they are already deluding themselves! LOL
I really don’t like the different eye color thing. Like Ski says it does limit what you can do with them.
I don’t like it either. It really punishes the people who are honest and just want to paint a blue-eyed dragon or a red-eyed dragon. I don’t think it’s a good idea. It will really limit people buying them, aka it would be bad for business.
skigod377 wrote:I just think its a matter of people not knowing they cant copy a piant job. Perhaps on the invoice, let them know that copying production piece paint jobs is not allowed. I dont think changing the eye color is a good idea, only for the fact that the blue, straw, and red eyes are popular, AND Miss Melody may come out with a green eyed (Or pink eyed:) dragon, and then our selection would get even more limited.
I doubt that most people read their invoices, or the instructions, I know I haven’t. I know it is wrong though, but I think probably because of being on here, I knew copying the sculpts was wrong, but not the colors. I do agree that the eye color thing would be limiting, and i did point that out in my first post. There are always going to people that will do the wrong thing reguardless.
emerald212 wrote:I don’t like it either. It really punishes the people who are honest and just want to paint a blue-eyed dragon or a red-eyed dragon. I don’t think it’s a good idea. It will really limit people buying them, aka it would be bad for business.
Well with 3 blues to choose from it really would not be that limiting, and if they offered the eye color with any stone but the ones that are in their color line you would be able to get a red eyed dragon with any color stone but red.
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