I don't think so - More like an epidemic of whiners

I think that these complaints about "rippers everywhere you turn" is getting a little overblown.

Many of the recent complaints I am reading are not about people claiming authorship of the work of other artists.

People are seeing websites featuring and crediting their work without prior notification.

This is not copyright infringement and more than that it is free publicity. There is an aspect of copyright called "fair use" which allows me (or anyone) to review your work, quote from it and feature examples of it without notifying you as long as I give you credit for being the creator of the work. Notice would be nice but it is not a requirement and failing to give it does not make me (or anyone) a ripper.

I am as protective of my work as the next artist but there is more than enough pirating and plagerism to go around without wasting our breath and confusing the issue with static about what seems to amount to legal and "fair use."

I think we can dial this back a bit and go back to the work we really love to do

Just my $.02
Regards
Richard

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