http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie 12 City Gate, Lower Bridge St, Dublin 8, Ireland. Ph:01 6351580 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:07:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/areas-of-practice/comment-page-1/#comment-4602 Caricatures Ireland » The curious case of the stolen avatar, and how sometimes the internet has your back. Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:02:11 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/?page_id=454#comment-4602 [...] Johnny Cotter’s the victim in all this folks. According to Johnny Cotter. And no, I’ve never had a deluge of angry comments from decent people angry at seeing someone ripped off, probably because I’ve never sold other people’s work as my own. I got a number of commissions from that avatar series when I started doing them initially for friends, including a sizeable commission from Bord Gais. John Cotter slipped my work into his portfolio and passed it off as his own. Who knows what other work he managed to get from my effort? There’s a hell of a lot of talented freelancers out there busting their arses to make a living, maybe that’s why there’s such a visceral reaction when someone’s caught out making easy money by stealing someone else’s work. It fills me with warmth, however, that so many people had my back on this (special mention in particular to supersolicitor Simon McGarr). [...] [...] Johnny Cotter’s the victim in all this folks. According to Johnny Cotter. And no, I’ve never had a deluge of angry comments from decent people angry at seeing someone ripped off, probably because I’ve never sold other people’s work as my own. I got a number of commissions from that avatar series when I started doing them initially for friends, including a sizeable commission from Bord Gais. John Cotter slipped my work into his portfolio and passed it off as his own. Who knows what other work he managed to get from my effort? There’s a hell of a lot of talented freelancers out there busting their arses to make a living, maybe that’s why there’s such a visceral reaction when someone’s caught out making easy money by stealing someone else’s work. It fills me with warmth, however, that so many people had my back on this (special mention in particular to supersolicitor Simon McGarr). [...]

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