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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I like to look of Pintrest as it useful for ideas and inspiration, don’t use the total photo but select bits and add to a different background etc.  A couple of weeks ago I came across some of Alan Bickley’s work I did  mention it to him he was quite surprised as he hadn’t posted the. They were liked to a painting site he is part of . Today as I was trawling through I suddenly noticed a familiar painting, one of mine , the looked again and there were four on the page , opened one and it linked me to my gallery on POL , since then I’ve come across about twenty. Strange to see you own work on a site that you don’t post too. My only thought is that it’s to do with the editorial staff making the site available to people, not a problem for me as long as it help to keep the  site in the public eye. Have any of you had the same experience , just out of interest and to settle my curiosity.
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Carol .

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There was a discussion in the forum, a while back, with other artists on this site having found their work on another platform/s. Its an easy thing to do to click and download images and present them elsewhere. If permission is sought, fine, but if not I don't think people should be doing it. This is the reason I keep my gallery empty. It's nice to post work and receive lovely comments and to see how many times a piece of work has been viewed . . . this is where our work 'should' stay.

Jenny Harris

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I’ve seen my work appear occasionally on Pinterest, one was posted there by a POL member, but I assume the others were by people either who’d seen it on the gallery or Google searched for a particular subject or type of painting.  As Carol says, it’s an easy thing to do.  It doesn’t particularly bother me, it’s quite nice to know that others like my work enough to add it to their Pinterest board.

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Tessa Gwynne

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I just had a quick look and found quite a few of mine, and others I recognised from this site. I guess that’s what Pinterest is. I don’t use it myself but it clearly shows who the artist is and just that someone else likes their work. 
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Lewis Cooper

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I’ve seen my work on Pinterest, and a few other POL artists. Usually when I’m googling info.  I have an interest in myth and folklore, and when searching for that on occasion my own pictures come up…I’ve done several on the subject.  They are all linked to the POL site. If you post stuff online it happens.  People download stuff.  As I like looking at art online I can’t complain. I had joined Pinterest, they were a great reference site.  A couple of years back I cancelled my account, because it was raddled with ai art.  Often not specified as such.  POL has a Pinterest account, so gallery stuff will go there.

Norrette Moore

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It sounds good.  But it might encourage everyone to visibly sign their work. Before AI grabs it from alternative sites.
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I don’t see it as a problem especially if POL are posting then if someone else I’d because they like the work that’s ok it still in my name and linked to my gallery. Think I would be more than unhappy if someone else claimed it as their work , probably as for it to be removed by Pintrest. You are spot on regarding the AI artwork and so call photos there are more now than a few years ago, I don’t even bother looking if I think it’s AI generated , it always looks to smooth and pristine if it supposed to be a painting. People on photos look so unreal as there is no natural aging look of the daily fair ware and tear out bodies get ,some look disproportionately shaped and so unnatural looks quite funny sometimes.
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John Graham Inkson

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If your work is liked it goes all over the place, and far and wide. Copy write has become antiquated item now. Anything i do not want to have copied I do not upload. Which is usually a design for something. On the other hand it’s great, gets what you do out there. We all down load images we like. But that is not breaking copy write. Is only when you use that image to make money from it claiming it as your own work. Then copy write comes in. That is what I understand of it. I always work from my own reference material when painting, but may have to find something when I fall sort of references I have recorded myself. AI well thats another story, deceptive fantasy to my thinking.

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