Go, Read: There Are A Bunch Of Rebecca Mock/Diplo Stories Out There Now

It's worth revisiting. Kevin Melrose is a superior linkblogger, so that initial link goes to his post at Robot 6. You can certainly find articles and posts a bunch of places now, though. Here's a piece at one of the bigger sites. Most of the articles point out the use of the work without recompense or permission and the asinine responses made by Diplo to both Mock and Hope Larson.

I tend to think it entirely appropriate when this kind of thing plays itself out on-line. It's effective in many cases. There's even some delicious irony in that many acts of stealing art these days to be designed to flatter the thief with positive recognition such as the kind received on-line. I'm sorry for anyone that had to deal with the unpleasantness of this, and I'm sorrier for the initial act of exploitation, just that we still have those issues. Both of those things are horrid. Hopefully we can all learn a lesson about looking like a dipshit when you try to justify exploiting someone's work, and doubly so when they're brave enough to assert their right to set the terms of use for their work. Don't steal. Pay.

In a related story, more appropriate degrees of appropriation as opposed to outright theft, Buzz Dixon points out the artist that recently appropriated work by Scott Teplin to some deserved blowback also seems to be familiar with Virgil Finlay.

Update: an apology, of sorts.
 
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