That's a nice thought, but I don't think I'll need her on this one; it has some serious legal muscle behind it already - it's owned by the DMA and is the one your husband scored for me. A lot of my, frankly, nausea about the situation is down to the fact that the person doing this should have known better (1) in the first place and (2) given the last two times she tried it. It's basically destroyed my ability to be friends with someone, not just because of the extreme disrespect involved in defacing my work, but because if someone doesn't understand it when I say:
"I am a professional filmmaker and people pay me for having good taste; I spent a lot of time and a lot of money accumulating the experience and education to make those decisions, and if you counterfeit work by me that is much worse than my actual work, it is notably more damaging than just showing work of mine and not paying me, because it compromises public perception of my ability to do my job and will materially affect my income and artistic status in the future, particularly given my current stage of development (wherein I am not doing student work but am not yet established, such that 100% of my capital is my expressed artistic viewpoint)."
then there's not much else I can say to make them understand. I say "someone has defaced artwork of mine and is passing it off as the real thing" and you either get it and are nauseous or you figure I'm being melodramatic and ignore me. The law is four square on my side, and I can and will compel compliance, but it doesn't change my feeling of violation.
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Date: 2010-08-05 05:58 pm (UTC)"I am a professional filmmaker and people pay me for having good taste; I spent a lot of time and a lot of money accumulating the experience and education to make those decisions, and if you counterfeit work by me that is much worse than my actual work, it is notably more damaging than just showing work of mine and not paying me, because it compromises public perception of my ability to do my job and will materially affect my income and artistic status in the future, particularly given my current stage of development (wherein I am not doing student work but am not yet established, such that 100% of my capital is my expressed artistic viewpoint)."
then there's not much else I can say to make them understand. I say "someone has defaced artwork of mine and is passing it off as the real thing" and you either get it and are nauseous or you figure I'm being melodramatic and ignore me. The law is four square on my side, and I can and will compel compliance, but it doesn't change my feeling of violation.