Us as creative artist we need to have the guarantee and support from  the place displaying our designs that  copyright  rights  are protected. At its best.
 
I don’t think I read  in any of GCU polices  that this site can be use as clip art feeder for  bloggers nor scrap bookers or anyone how may feel like “borrowing images” .  This person’s action is absolutely a copyright infringement and  should be treated and addressed as such.
 
I have send several “scary” email regarding copyright infringement in  several business with my artwork done  from the popular auction sites to French sites.
 
I don’t have problem  when  people  politely ask if they can display my art but when they tried to excuse  themselves by claiming “ non-malicious intent on copyright infringement” I can’t tell you how many times I have heard that phrase before…. ( It makes me think it might be in  some manual for ”Stealing artist design  and excuses and phrases you can  tell when you get caught”
 
This is absolutely  unacceptable to allow this type of  art stealing  just  to wait for some sales.  All of  us- Artist we  are gifted with creativity and we  have to constantly battle thru the past years  the  right to be respected as creative developers.  New  times  flourish now to artist and creative people and laws that protect us to this type of abuse.; if the company that supposed to protect your art doesn’t follow  thru you can contact offices directly to deal with the legal case.
 
 
I apologize to be passionate about this  topic… I had learned the hard way  thought-out  the years; experience has tough me  as an Artist you have the right and will stand in a legal battle… doesn’t matter if it’s claimed  unintended, unintentional or a home maker mom. Using your designs  for her candy wrapping business.  Copyright infringement is copyright infringement and should be treated as that.  
 
Ines
Timeless Memories Art
http://www.timelessmemoriesart.com

This is a question for the GCU Tech folks. I noticed at Corries Zazzle and GCU sites and my own too that the images are can easily dragged on to my mac - I suppose on to a PC too. (Corrie I will delete them - I was checking to see how easy it was for people to grab our stuff.) Is there a way our images could be locked and not able to be dragged off to be used in other peoples projects.  I know I have been to clip art sites where the images are locked or have a watermark across the image that is removed when you pay for their service.
 
 I also wonder since people are looking for scrap booking images that perhaps it is something we could make available to them in a legitimate way through GCU. Maybe there is a need that we can meet somehow.  
 

Here is the url for polyvore  
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.things?query=greetingcarduniverse  
 
There is artwork under sets and items. Mary

I wrote 2 posts to this thread and only the second one is posted. There is work by artists at greetingcarduniverse posted on polyvore.com. I posted the url on my second post. Polyvore also had a lot of photos from pbase members posted and the pbase admin had polyvore remove them. I had photos taken from thelensflare and I had polyvore remove them.  
 
Regarding card widget, I don't know what that is or how to make one or install one. Mary
 
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/search.sets?query=greetingcarduniverse

Yep, one of my sister's dolphin pictures on polyvore...absolutely without permission.

We have two seperate things going on here.  
 
1. The Blogger- cease and desist, remove images- even though she has posted credit to some she is giving away items as free without credit on the give aways.  Maybe not malicous but stupid. She needs to learn the correct way to ask. I rarely believe someone when they say "I didn't know".  
 
2. Polyvore- I don't mind. Everywhere an image is posted it is credited to GCU and hot linked bringing potential customers to the site which may result in sales.

Hi
Thanks Corrie for letting us know about this. Whilst I didn`t find any of my images in use I still do not like what she was doing. I tried to email her but it kept bouncing back, so I decided to leave a message on her blog. Sadly it wouldn`t take a long message to get my point across so I had to leave several!
However I just went back to take another look and she has removed all the previous images and apologised saying she didn`t intend to steal images... lets hope that`s the end of her illegally using other people`s work!
Karen

I agree with the people who have made it clear that they do not want their art used without permission.  I feel the same way, even though I have not seen any of my images on their sites.