Recently, I had an incident occur where someone downloaded a piece of art from my website, bananacreative.com, and used it as their own art on their website. This really opened my eyes to the issues surrounding copyright, and how artists and others need to protect ourselves better. This event also taught me about what to do to remedy the situation. I am not a lawyer by any means, so please do not take this as professional legal advice, but use it only as a guide into the sometimes murky world of copyright.

Read my blog post which outlines Ways to Avoid Getting into Copyright Trouble and What to Do if Your Work is Taken at Danielle's blog. I hope you all find it helpful. See you soon.

~Danielle Mai

Sorry to hear you got ripped off but it's great that you found out. I hope you were able to painlesly put a stop to it. Thanks for sharing your blog post with us!

Copyright law is certainly a hot topic these days.

All in all it was a great learning experience for me. I'm glad it was resolved without too much work. And, I just hope my experience can help other designers in some way.