MySpace Mimetic Advertising
Halloween proved more popular than I thought.
The spooky kids over at MySpace (a social networking site) seem to like my happy halloween image, so posted it onto each others blogs as a kind of greetings card I suppose.
Whilst I’m flattered that public opinion of my work is high enough for people to want to use it as a form of communication, I do think it’s wrong that they treat it as free to use without so much as an accreditation. What’s more they link directly to the image, not copying and embeding their own copy of it.
This effectively allows me to place any image I want on the offending website …[more]