Luckily for this person, they decided to remove them after I sent a message but the fact that this person didn't even know what they had done wrong was completely surprising. I found myself explaining the ins and outs of copyright theft. It's ridiculous that someone would not know the situation being in the information age that we are in. I mean most people know it's wrong to take things from others when they are a toddler, let alone an adult.

I've left some time between this happening and posting it in my journal because ... well ... my journal would not have been polite. I've also been forced to put the large copyright markings on my work until I find another way, which I am currently looking in to. Hope that you can bear with that for the moment.

So, currently I feel the need to provide a couple of links for anyone passing by who needs to know the facts :

Design and Artists Copyright Society
Intellectual Property Office - Copyright

These are UK sites so if anyone has any other links for copyright in other countries, I will be pleased to post them here in my journal as well. Read up people!!! It's not right to take art work without the permission of the artist.