From:
"Walter S. Arnold" <walter@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:59:00 -0500
Subject:
Warning for Stone Manufactering in China
At 02:21 AM 9/1/2006, Jack Hell wrote:
Quoted text begins.I am a stone sculpture in Belgium and did an experiment with a stone
factory, Dingly company, in China.
End of quote.
Jack,
Sorry about your misfortune, but I can't say as how I'm the least bit
surprised. First of all, you did business with a spammer; that is never a
good thing. If no one did any business with spammers, spam would fade
instead of growing- if they don't make money, they won't continue.
Also, the Chinese carving industry has no concept of intellectual property.
Sculpture Review magazine had an entire issue a couple years ago on
copyright violations. Artists send one model over to China for an
inexpensive bronze or marble reproduction, and the company there then turns
out dozens or hundreds of unauthorized copies. In their view, by giving
them your model, you are literally giving them your model, with all rights
included. They also pull photos off the web and claim the work as theirs.
I've seen photos of my work, and the work of friends of mine in both the US
and Italy, on quite a number of Chinese sites and in their spams (one site
even left my copyright info on the photo, they didn't edit it off). In
addition to claiming they did the work, they quote prices for the finished
work which often are less than my cost for the raw materials alone. (even
if they get labor and stone for free, that doesn't cover their transport
and shipping costs- something is very wrong here). They described to one
person, who ordered one of my fireplace designs from China instead of
ordering it from me, that their artisans "carved the marble and then poured
it in a mould". Caveat emptor.
Walter S. Arnold * walter@---------------
Gallery: http://www.stonecarver.com
Gargoyle postcards: http://www.stonecarver.com/postcard.html
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