Fraud
47 creative works found
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Upward Looking Fallen Angel. Portrait of a male angel holding his broken wings up behind his back. He has fallen, becoming mortal, and looks upward innocently feigning his previous divinity. Extreme alternative photographic mixed medium processed image.
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Incognita knew that it had simply been a matter of time... but that didn't stop her panicking
by IncognitaUS$4.99–US$114.00
The Museum of Dust is completely, if inconstantly, surrounded by impenetrable forest. In places it comes right up to the building and scrapes and scratches on the windows. Wind and moonlight send monstrous shadows capering and cavorting across Cog’s bedroom wall. They seem to know all her secrets.
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Bernard Leon Madoff (29 de abril de 1938) fue el presidente de una firma de inversión que lleva su nombre y que él fundó en 1960. Ésta fue una de las más importantes en Wall Street. Madoff también fue una de las principales figuras de la filantropía judía[cita requerida]. En diciembre de 2008 Madoff fue detenido por la FBI y acusado de fraude. El juez federal Louis L. Stanton ha congelado los activos de Madoff. El presunto fraude puede alcanzar los 50.000 millones de dólares, lo que lo convertiría en el mayor fraude llevado a cabo por una sola persona. —-—-—-—-—— Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (born April 29, 1938 in New York City) is an American businessman and former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in 1960 and was its chairman until December 11, 2008, when he was charged with perpetrating what may be the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person. Departing Madoff image courtesy of Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty
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The real joker in the pack has got to be Bernard Madoff. Even the Joker would be impressed with Mr Madoff’s $50 billion dollar scam & Batman would be too. At least no one died; did they? / This design is the result of a suggestion from LostBoy.
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Roll on Mad Bob / Your job is almost done. / Those who could have stopped you, did nothing. / Those who couldn’t, but tried…died. / What will they write on your gravestone, Bob? / What will they write on ours? I copied the following report from a South African online newspaper / IOL / on 21 April 08 By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Details of a widespread brutal campaign by the military to keep President Robert Mugabe in power have been revealed to The Sunday Independent. Central to the plot are hundreds of “command centres”, led by war veterans and youths in police uniform, which are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign. Zimbabwe’s top military authority, the Joint Operational Command, made up of service chiefs, has established a chain of command to ensure that Mugabe and Zanu-PF remain in office even though they both lost the elections three weeks ago. The command centres are waging a campaign of intimidation, violence and ballot rigging. In this way, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mugabe in a second round of presidential elections. The network will probably not cover the cities, all strongholds of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Instead, they will be concentrated in the rural areas where 70 percent of Zimbabweans live. Three weeks after the poll’s first round, no official results have been announced, but the regime has publicly acknowledged that Mugabe fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president’s re-election plan to The Sunday Independent. They attended a meeting in a rural province on Monday morning. It included traditional chiefs and local politicians and was addressed by two senior members of Mugabe’s regime. They said each command centre would consist of three police officers, a soldier and a war veteran who would be in charge. They would dispatch militias, comprising war veterans and members of the Zanu-PF’s youth wing, to assault and torture known opposition supporters. They would also control the local police to ensure that the militias were immune from arrest. The generals have called on the four security services – army, police, intelligence and prisons – to ensure that people are terrorised into voting for Mugabe in the expected re-run of the presidential poll. The results of that poll have still not been released, arousing suspicions of vote-rigging and provoking growing domestic and international pressure on Zimbabwe’s authorities. The victor has to win 50 percent plus one vote of the votes cast or face a re-run. The result, when it is finally announced, cannot be recounted, according to the Electoral Act. The Sunday Independent has heard evidence that the announcement of the results has been postponed deliberately to allow Mugabe’s government to falsify votes to close the gap between him and Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai is widely believed to have won the election with about 49 to 51 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 42 or 43 percent. Independent candidate Simba Makoni won the rest. Mugabe’s strategy appears to be to close the gap so that his rigged victory in the expected run-off election will be more credible. Apart from doctoring the presidential votes, Mugabe’s officials have also needed the delay to replace votes cast for MDC candidates in the parliamentary poll on the same day to try to ensure that the rigging cannot not be detected, according to sources. All the results for the four elections – parliamentary, senate, local government and presidential – that took place on March 29 were posted outside more than 8 000 polling stations by midnight April 1. Zanu-PF narrowly lost its parliamentary majority to the MDC and the presidential results had to be transferred to Harare for collation. Generals who report directly to the Joint Operational Command have explained in a series of closed meetings how people will be terrorised and beaten into voting for Mugabe in a re-run. The details released by our two informants were from one of the planning sessions. They rushed to Harare from a remote rural area this week to reveal the plan. They disclosed the names, ranks and even the cellphone numbers of those people from one province who have been ordered to join the campaign. Wilfred Mhanda, one of Mugabe’s senior commanders from the 1970s war against white Rhodesia, said yesterday: “The report you have shown me is true. What is explained in the report is typical of what is already happening in various parts of the country, and those who know Zanu-PF as I do will not be surprised. What worries me is there seems to be no way out of where we are going.” The scores of names in the report – several familiar to many Zimbabweans who have been victimised for their political beliefs – and the province where the meeting took place cannot be identified to protect the identity of the two men. A senior politician told security personnel at one provincial meeting: “You have to defend the revolution. If you don’t and [it] is sold through the ballot, we will go back to the bush and fight. Is that what you want? I don’t think so.” Select groups have been told how victory for Mugabe will be achieved in the run-off and in the recount of 23 constituencies, which the partisan Zimbabwe Election Commission began on Saturday. State media said the results on the recount were expected in a few days. According to reliable sources, sealed ballot boxes have been opened and new seals have been forged. Votes for the MDC have been taken out and replaced by votes for Zanu-PF. It has been done so carefully that no one will be able to detect the fraud – the bogus votes have the same numbers as those issued to voters on polling day and the number of votes in each box has been carefully reproduced. Also new pale-blue forms, V11, which were posted outside polling stations with results of the four elections, have been recreated with forged signatures of the polling agents and different tallies, favouring both Zanu-PF in the parliamentary contest and Mugabe in the presidential poll. Chiara Carter reports that the campaign of terror was verified yesterday in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said Zanu-PF was using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans. A statement issued on Saturday provided a chilling account of systematic intimidation and violence, including the abduction and savage beating of opposition supporters in several areas. In the past two days, researchers interviewed more than 30 people who had been tortured and, because of it, sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs. Human Rights Watch, a respected non-governmental group that monitors human rights across the globe, called on the African Union to step in immediately to address the crisis and protect civilians. The organisation said its researchers had heard from victims and eyewitnesses that, in the wake of last month’s election, Zanu-PF had set up detention centres in the opposition constituencies of Mutoko North, Mutoko South and Mudzi in the province of Mashonaland East, and in Bikita West in Masvingo. Opposition supporters were being tortured at these camps. The organisation said Zanu-PF officials were calling the crackdown Operation Makavhoterapapi (“Where did you put your cross?”). The aim appeared to be twofold: to punish people for having voted for the MDC, and to intimidate them to vote for Zanu-PF in the event of a presidential run-off. One victim told Human Rights Watch: “They told me, ‘next time you will vote wisely; now you know what we can do’.” – Foreign Service
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Roll on Mad Bob / Your job is almost done. / Those who could have stopped you, did nothing. / Those who couldn’t, but tried…died. / What will they write on your gravestone, Bob? / What will they write on ours? I copied the following report from a South African online newspaper / IOL / on 21 April 08 By Peta Thornycroft Harare – Details of a widespread brutal campaign by the military to keep President Robert Mugabe in power have been revealed to The Sunday Independent. Central to the plot are hundreds of “command centres”, led by war veterans and youths in police uniform, which are being established across Zimbabwe to wage a national terror campaign. Zimbabwe’s top military authority, the Joint Operational Command, made up of service chiefs, has established a chain of command to ensure that Mugabe and Zanu-PF remain in office even though they both lost the elections three weeks ago. The command centres are waging a campaign of intimidation, violence and ballot rigging. In this way, the regime plans to guarantee victory for Mugabe in a second round of presidential elections. The network will probably not cover the cities, all strongholds of Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader. Instead, they will be concentrated in the rural areas where 70 percent of Zimbabweans live. Three weeks after the poll’s first round, no official results have been announced, but the regime has publicly acknowledged that Mugabe fell short of the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off. A senior army officer and a police chief described the president’s re-election plan to The Sunday Independent. They attended a meeting in a rural province on Monday morning. It included traditional chiefs and local politicians and was addressed by two senior members of Mugabe’s regime. They said each command centre would consist of three police officers, a soldier and a war veteran who would be in charge. They would dispatch militias, comprising war veterans and members of the Zanu-PF’s youth wing, to assault and torture known opposition supporters. They would also control the local police to ensure that the militias were immune from arrest. The generals have called on the four security services – army, police, intelligence and prisons – to ensure that people are terrorised into voting for Mugabe in the expected re-run of the presidential poll. The results of that poll have still not been released, arousing suspicions of vote-rigging and provoking growing domestic and international pressure on Zimbabwe’s authorities. The victor has to win 50 percent plus one vote of the votes cast or face a re-run. The result, when it is finally announced, cannot be recounted, according to the Electoral Act. The Sunday Independent has heard evidence that the announcement of the results has been postponed deliberately to allow Mugabe’s government to falsify votes to close the gap between him and Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai is widely believed to have won the election with about 49 to 51 percent of the vote, against Mugabe’s 42 or 43 percent. Independent candidate Simba Makoni won the rest. Mugabe’s strategy appears to be to close the gap so that his rigged victory in the expected run-off election will be more credible. Apart from doctoring the presidential votes, Mugabe’s officials have also needed the delay to replace votes cast for MDC candidates in the parliamentary poll on the same day to try to ensure that the rigging cannot not be detected, according to sources. All the results for the four elections – parliamentary, senate, local government and presidential – that took place on March 29 were posted outside more than 8 000 polling stations by midnight April 1. Zanu-PF narrowly lost its parliamentary majority to the MDC and the presidential results had to be transferred to Harare for collation. Generals who report directly to the Joint Operational Command have explained in a series of closed meetings how people will be terrorised and beaten into voting for Mugabe in a re-run. The details released by our two informants were from one of the planning sessions. They rushed to Harare from a remote rural area this week to reveal the plan. They disclosed the names, ranks and even the cellphone numbers of those people from one province who have been ordered to join the campaign. Wilfred Mhanda, one of Mugabe’s senior commanders from the 1970s war against white Rhodesia, said yesterday: “The report you have shown me is true. What is explained in the report is typical of what is already happening in various parts of the country, and those who know Zanu-PF as I do will not be surprised. What worries me is there seems to be no way out of where we are going.” The scores of names in the report – several familiar to many Zimbabweans who have been victimised for their political beliefs – and the province where the meeting took place cannot be identified to protect the identity of the two men. A senior politician told security personnel at one provincial meeting: “You have to defend the revolution. If you don’t and [it] is sold through the ballot, we will go back to the bush and fight. Is that what you want? I don’t think so.” Select groups have been told how victory for Mugabe will be achieved in the run-off and in the recount of 23 constituencies, which the partisan Zimbabwe Election Commission began on Saturday. State media said the results on the recount were expected in a few days. According to reliable sources, sealed ballot boxes have been opened and new seals have been forged. Votes for the MDC have been taken out and replaced by votes for Zanu-PF. It has been done so carefully that no one will be able to detect the fraud – the bogus votes have the same numbers as those issued to voters on polling day and the number of votes in each box has been carefully reproduced. Also new pale-blue forms, V11, which were posted outside polling stations with results of the four elections, have been recreated with forged signatures of the polling agents and different tallies, favouring both Zanu-PF in the parliamentary contest and Mugabe in the presidential poll. Chiara Carter reports that the campaign of terror was verified yesterday in a report by the Human Rights Watch organisation, which said Zanu-PF was using a network of informal detention centres to beat, torture and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans. A statement issued on Saturday provided a chilling account of systematic intimidation and violence, including the abduction and savage beating of opposition supporters in several areas. In the past two days, researchers interviewed more than 30 people who had been tortured and, because of it, sustained serious injuries, including broken limbs. Human Rights Watch, a respected non-governmental group that monitors human rights across the globe, called on the African Union to step in immediately to address the crisis and protect civilians. The organisation said its researchers had heard from victims and eyewitnesses that, in the wake of last month’s election, Zanu-PF had set up detention centres in the opposition constituencies of Mutoko North, Mutoko South and Mudzi in the province of Mashonaland East, and in Bikita West in Masvingo. Opposition supporters were being tortured at these camps. The organisation said Zanu-PF officials were calling the crackdown Operation Makavhoterapapi (“Where did you put your cross?”). The aim appeared to be twofold: to punish people for having voted for the MDC, and to intimidate them to vote for Zanu-PF in the event of a presidential run-off. One victim told Human Rights Watch: “They told me, ‘next time you will vote wisely; now you know what we can do’.” – Foreign Service
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This is a picture belonging in a series I am making about religion. / This one is one out of two representing Christianity. / It was done by first drawing a sketch of the two persons in the picture, then I scanned it in to Photoshop where I inked and colored it. POS
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Inspired after my bank account was attacked by some cheeky hackers! / They just throw out the bait and wait for a bite. We all swim in the barrel trying to avoid the trap! / . / Pinhead in the Rain / . / CASSE-T-SHIRT / / . / MORE DESIGNS / . / / / / / / / /
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this is a scene from the story of Hans Christian Andersen. / it is the story about the king without clothes. some other works from this story: / / /
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Not for Ford Lovers! Enjoy .
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This is a topical T-shirt design & if you read the name as pronounced on UK TV stations the T-shirt will read as Bernard Made Off With $50 Billion Dollars, why so serious!! / Well when you consider the global financial situation Bernard deserves a good kick in the nuts. He probably caused more damage than any terrorist. / So it would be showing your support for a good hard working artist (me) by buying this T-shirt never mind democracy!! Also available in the Obama campaign style as below. /
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If Bernard Madoff had run for President then perhaps his campaign poster might have looked like this. It might not but I’m allowed to speculate; after all he did!! / I should point out there’s a play on words going on here. Madoff reads as Made of; so we end up with ‘Made of Money’ as the T-shirt slogan. Sadly its not his money its ours!! / Another version is also available in the style shown below. /
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Bernard Leon Madoff (29 de abril de 1938) fue el presidente de una firma de inversión que lleva su nombre y que él fundó en 1960. Ésta fue una de las más importantes en Wall Street. Madoff también fue una de las principales figuras de la filantropía judía[cita requerida]. En diciembre de 2008 Madoff fue detenido por la FBI y acusado de fraude. El juez federal Louis L. Stanton ha congelado los activos de Madoff. El presunto fraude puede alcanzar los 50.000 millones de dólares, lo que lo convertiría en el mayor fraude llevado a cabo por una sola persona. —-—-—-—-—— Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (born April 29, 1938 in New York City) is an American businessman and former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in 1960 and was its chairman until December 11, 2008, when he was charged with perpetrating what may be the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single person. Departing Madoff image courtesy of Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty
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The truth hurts
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This was taken early on a beautiful frosty February morning outside of Caen, France.
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Poseur, Enculer en Aspirant
by H M BascomPut your ego on a shelf / You fool no one / Except yourself
FEATURED BY C.O.R.E. Poseur Image Copyright / / MCN:C633D-D4DFB-17080 Poem Copyright / / MCN:C8D72-684C3-023AF Public Domain Image Credit This work also posted on Bascom Digital Art Blog Copyright Notice / © 2005-2009 Helen M. Bascom / All rights reserved. None of the materials provided on this web page may be used, reproduced or transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or the use of any information storage and retrieval system, downloading, printing, or linking without permission in writing from Helen M. Bascom. Removal of electronic copyright information, digital fingerprints, or embedded watermarks on any image is strictly prohibited. To request permission to use any material on this page, to link to any image, and for further inquiries, contact Ms. Bascom by email. CLICK HERE to submit your request.
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*_PLEASE BEWARE!! SOMEONE IS STEALING OUR ORIGINAL WORKS and MAKING MONEY!_*
by Tracy JulePLEASE BE AWARE / I just got this email and thought I would pass it on, just incase it may affect any of you. Link. / http://www.redbubb…
PLEASE BE AWARE / I just got this email and thought I would pass it on, just incase it may affect any of you. Link. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/dougie1/writing/2330170-theft-of-your-work Message. THEFT OF YOUR WORK! Author: dougie1 / Word Count: 137 / browse writing next / IF YOU HAVE BEEN TAKING NOTICE, YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT “VILI VITSKA” / HAS BEEN STEALING WORK, PUBLISHING IT ON PHOTOBUCKET, AND OFFERING IT FOR SALE! / PLEASE BE ALSO AWARE, THAT BY GOING TO “EDIT MY PROFILE”, AND SCROLLING DOWN, YOU WILL FIND A TICK BOX, “PREFERENCES”. IF YOU TICK THIS BOX IT PUTS A CLEAR LAYER OVER ALL OF YOUR PICS, SO SHOULD ANYONE TRY TO COPY IT, THEY GET A BLANK PAGE! THANKS TO RED BUBBLE FOR MAKING THIS CLEAR TO THEIR THOUSANDS OF (WIDE OPEN TO ROBBERY) CUSTOMERS!! ok, on this womans fave list, are the following that I know: helen bascom, rose moxon, cheri mceachin, gaild, vonnie murfin, antanas, lucindawind, micmac, and funkyface studio. / Also in a big way are corinne noon, michael j armijo, shanina conway, clair mcadams, and jaqueline roberts
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To all who read previous journal...
by Karen Martin IPAThank you all for your good wishes and support. I was over the moon last Thursday over my sales…. Then I got this message on Friday:...
Thank you all for your good wishes and support. I was over the moon last Thursday over my sales…. Then I got this message on Friday: ‘RedBubble has recently experienced a few isolated incidents of fraud. People have used stolen credit cards to buy t-shirts. We have detected these fraudulent transactions and refunded the credit card owners. Unfortunately some of the fraudulent transactions affect your sales.’ So I didn’t have a good sales day after all…. and I am still reeling from this…. Why are people so horrible! Bad enough using someone else’s card…. At least RB are aware, I suppose… Just hope it doesn’t happen to me again, and nor to any of you lovely folk out there on RB…. Regards Karen
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Update and Resume.about the Polyvore Affair.
by Crokus LabelSo everyone knows a little more where we stand, and what is happening with “the polyvore affair”, I will post here the “communication” th…
So everyone knows a little more where we stand, and what is happening with “the polyvore affair”, I will post here the “communication” that has happened between “them” and I. I personally am not done with this. I want Polyvore to respect ALL Artists’ copyrights. Here is a collection of what was said and done, at the end of this writing, I will explain what remains. It is not over yet. / _____ @Polyvore, I am really concerned about the fact that you have dissabeld your own tags, and thereof, you can no longer find new works that are being directed to your site. / I can proove very well that I can still upload pictures form redbubble to your site. / I just did it once again… / I chalenge you to take your own responsibility and find the works that I have uploaded… (as you would have to find lost works that are just still around on your site.) you are the one(s) in charge of your own network, it is for you to fix the mistakes that you have allowed to be produced here. / Perhaps you should also think about removing all works from other similar sites (but I think that it would be much easier on you to tell your members to upload their own products from their computer… If they have copyrights (like we do here) they must have it on their own computers. When I started to be a photographer, I did it on my own time… I did not “steal” any equipment nor copyrighted materials from more experienced people. How can we teach our children to be their own selves if we can’t even let them produce their own works? What is the message you want to carry? But let me tell you that if you can find my work, and you do remove it as soon as you do, that means that you can do the same with ALL of our works… this is YOUR responsibility. It is disgraceful to see that you allow young people to upload “anything” to your site, and then wash your hands clean of it for letting the whole world use it. I am very deceived. and I demand that you do no longer allow ANY directing from other copyrighted sites… I am watching you, and there are a few people that are too… you just won’t always know who we are… nor which site we come from… deviantart, redbubble, photobucket… or any other sites… theft is theft, and it is not acceptable to profit (in any forms, and you sure do profit from getting original works to be played with to attract your clients.) Please do not sing me a sweet song, for you haven’t even replied to half of us through our complaints… I want to be kept updated here as to know what it is you are doing to ensure our rights. Crokus Label, creator of the petition to which you didn’t really reply but to cut and paste your message from here to there. We have a petition of 181 + yourself there, that states that WE want it all removed. It was your mistake in the first place. Fix it. Show the young ones on your site that one must take responsibilities for their own actions. It might help them trust adults, and learn to accept their responsibilities too. Work on changing how your images are getting on your site(get them to upload from their own computers), because I promise to not give up the fight, and I am willing to go to any length to achieve the respect of our copyrights. Our copyrights MUST be respected anywhere. Redbubble memebers or not. Copyrights are OUR rights as artists, anywhere we be. Regards, Crokus Label Photography, creator of the petition to which you should probably look at carefully, for we are many to ask you to remove our works, and not allow it to be posted on your site. So I leave you to the cleaning up of your infringement mess, and I will be back in the morning to see if our petition was well understood. (I too will be copying and pasting this elsewhere so everyone knows where all this is at now.) __ Polyvore, I am somehow deceived as how you have been avoiding me. My account was deleted yesterday and reinstated today (I never have been abusive in my journey to copyright assertion. So I assume this is why you reinstated my account on your site.) Now, I would have thought that you would have got something to reply at least in one of my messages/requests. But even after sending you messages to your site, messages here and on the other thread here at RedBubble, and a link in your Bubblemail to let you know I had left you a message in both threads, you never respond to ANY of my writings… And that either in private. I am still looking for explanations of how things will be handled from your site to stop this violation of copyrights. Still waiting for you to give me a sign of life. Crokus Label Photography. Crokus: i just replied to your bubblemail. As of last night, we have blocked imports from redbubble.com (because redbubble.com staff requested that we do so). You managed to import your image before our site software was updated with that change. We have taken down your image and sets that you mentioned in your message. (Although, we did not understand why you uploaded something only to request to have it removed a few hours later). As we have mentioned several times: we would be happy to comply with take down notices as long as they come from the person who owns the rights to the image and lists which URLs need to be removed. Please allow a reasonable amount of time for us to respond to your request (we usually respond in a few hours, but please allow 24 hours before you hit the panic button). Also, please note that different people have different opinions about how their images should or should not be used online. We would be happy to service group take down requests as we did with RedBubble.com but please don’t send us request to take down all image from site X unless you are sure everyone affected shares your views. I hope this is not construed as lack of cooperation or respect on our part. I hope I answered your questions. _ Polyvore, I have uploaded these to see how your site was “working,” and what will happen with my images, so I precisely know what and how to make sure copyrighted images are not still being used. As for standing up for all artist that have their rights to copyrights of their own material, I can not stay there and do nothing about it, for copyrights are made to be respected, and the very big majority of your images were taken on the net “randomly” by users that do not have them rights; Therefore, I will maintain my position at asking that everybody’s copyrights be respected. If you do not remove them you might have to deal with the consequences of your “inactions”… Most people form other sites can’t ask you to have their works removed, for they are not even aware that they have been imported there. It would only be fair to refuse to respect their copyrights because you believe that they should all come and warn you to remove stuff that they do not even know is on your site. Copyrights are made for EVERYONE to be respected, and I do not believe that when you say that everybody has a different opinion on the issue, you seem to forget that copyrights are the same for everyone, and that includes your site. By refusing today to take care of the real problem, you expose yourself to lawsuits in a near or far future. I must say that you have made some great efforts to remove to remove redbubble’s member’s works, and I appreciate this. I would really appreciate if you would let us know how you will make your best so your members really understand what are copyrights, what consequences there might be to infringe them, and what changes you will/might make in a near future so all artists/photographers works be protect as best as you can. Thank you for this first reply, I appreciate that you finally found time to respond to part of my concerns. Crokus Label _ What do you think? I am not done… but let’s keep pealing the onion… ;) (here are some key words so people can find this form a search engine: polyvore.com, polyvore, action, copyrights, rights, copyright, internet, infringement,Pasha Sadri, violation, fraud, theft, thief, mission, respect, honor, ceo, founder, community, innovator, thieves, scandal,blog, concern, concerned, Unite, unity, help, violator, law, trust, refuse, refusal, blame, )
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Scammer! Beware of "linda001my"
by VestqueI didn’t know this sort of thing happened on the bubble. I just received an email from a person named linda001my...
I didn’t know this sort of thing happened on the bubble. I just received an email from a person named linda001my This is the Email: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2603898427_718cd3df09_o.jpg Now for those that don’t know these sort of scams, their called 419, or Advance Fee scams. You can find out more about them here: http://www.419scam.org/emails/2006-07/08/610142.59.htm http://www.419scam.org/419scam.htm I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence at redbubble, but it certainly has never happened to me before here. I am infuriated that this sort of behavior exists on this fine website. Of course I immediately reported the email, but I knew I had to let everyone know. Even though this is a well known scam, for every few that know, there will be others that don’t know and can be fooled. These scams work, thats why people do them. So I thought you should all be informed of at least this one Scammer. Hopefully everyone can be educated about this sort of thing, and not fall for these lies. Thank you for your time. Vestque
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Artist or Fraud???
by Tania RoseDuring the early days of my career (which i identify as being during my early 20’s), i was just starting to find the courage to label mys…
During the early days of my career (which i identify as being during my early 20’s), i was just starting to find the courage to label myself a composer. This was a huge step for me psychologically because although i was working as a professional musician, writing music for film and dance projects and performing regularly, i lived in this fear than sooner-or-later i was going to be caught-out as a fraud! It’s a big word, FRAUD. It has all kinds of connotations with it, and the whole concept has a dirty vibe to it. That’s what i felt. Like my dirty secret would eventually get out, and I’d be exposed as nothing more than a pretender, a fake, a low-life wanna-be. Pretty intense, hey. Yet people were paying me good money to write and perform music, i was getting great reviews, the projects i was working on received world-wide acclaim, there were awards and interviews….how was this possible if i was faking it? So intense were my feelings, that i began to ask a few close artist friends whom i had the greatest creative respect for, “do you ever feel like you’re a fake?”. Unexpectedly they ALL said yes, each one of them reacting to the question with a sense of relief that they could finally talk about it. I discovered that not only was i not alone in my own feelings, but that this mindset was prevalent in creative vocations. There is an unspoken fear that eventually the artist will be sprung, and they would be forced back to the depths where they belong. Most surprising of all was my discovery that the more talented the artist, the deeper those feelings appeared to run. Begs the question “why”, doesn’t it. Well, i can only answer this by drawing from what others have shared with me, and through my own experiences. So here’s my theory… “Talented” artists (we’ll leave the discussion of what talent is for another time), often start out in a less traditional way. For example, I’m a self-taught musician, only taking lessons in music to sharpen up my skills and perceptions of my art form as a young adult. This leaves the door wide open to feel less validated and uncredited. Also, music to me comes so naturally…practically effortless. It’s so enjoyable, it feels like there is no work involved in it, because most people class work as being something that one has to strive over and struggle with. Music also exposes a passion in me, one that is self-perpetuating…the more music I’m making, the more music i feel inspired to make. Plus, making music kinda gives me a high. All in all, it’s such an enjoyable and easy process, fun and passion-invoking, that i feel like i must be cheating somehow. I remember feeling this way when i used to improvise song arrangements on the piano as a kid to pop songs. I’d listen to a song a few times, and that was all I’d need. My friends would often need a few weeks working on it, but i seemed to already know it. I’d also just start singing harmonies to songs i barely knew…and knew no one else who could do that. i must have been cheating. I felt like i was, because i seemed to already know the answers. It makes perfect logical sense, except that of course there was no cheating involved, and no fraud…there was no deception. It’s about time that we as a society accepted that work doesn’t need to be soul-destroying in order for it to be valid. We don’t need to hate our jobs, our boss, and ourselves in order to show we work hard, and only then deserve some kind of return. And what is that term “working hard” all about anyway? Isn’t “working well” a better description? Surely being effective is better than being hard. And if something comes naturally, isn’t that a good thing? So many fantastic artists i have seen don’t market themselves, believing their work can only be a hobby because it’s something they love to do. DOH??!! If reading this has struck a truth in you, then chances are that you have something you do that comes naturally and easily to you. It’s called talent, not fraud. It’s real, and humanity need you to share it, not keep it locked up in your closet. If you need to share how you feel, let it out now, don’t wait ‘til you’re on your death-bed with a suitcase full of regrets. It’s perfectly natural to feel this way, but don’t let it ruin your journey. Embrace your potential. / Express yourself. / Expose that which comes easy…because for so many other people, what you do takes hard work. / Your natural abilities are more valuable than any certificate you could ever get in your life…EVER!!
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wHATS UP WITH THIS? Be Careful red bubblers...... of Fraudulent invitations....
by artist4peaceIN THE LAST 10 DAYSiI HAVE GOTTEN 3 funky bubblemails / 1) an email wanting to use my work for a logo BUT they wanted me to respond ONLY…
IN THE LAST 10 DAYSiI HAVE GOTTEN 3 funky bubblemails / 1) an email wanting to use my work for a logo BUT they wanted me to respond ONLY through their personal email and not bubble mail.In going to their site…there was no information on them at all! I REPLIED saying I wanted to negotiate initially through RB etc. and never heard from them again. / Today 2)received an” I admire you talents& wanna get to know someone like you…blah blah” AGAIN requesting I respond to>>> a personal email acct.<<< I went and checked and there was NO information on them..0.. / I reported the 1st one to R B ,this one I am writing you guys about it! I have some great red bubble friendships and with some, we do communicate at times with our personal email accts…...or by phone or skype in addition to bubble mail etc.. / Each of these people/artists, however, have a site with info on themselves and have invested time posting works in art or writings and with site presentation you have a clear sense of who they are /what you are about!....I only want to be in relationship with those who are members who have invested themselves in our community genuinely… / Take care and I love you, / Dalzenia (-;
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