Post #445432 by AlienTiki on Tue, Apr 7, 2009 11:44 AM

On 2009-04-07 05:51, Cammo wrote:
Hey Alien -

Are you kidding????

He made this one piece for a friend! This is in no way taking food out of your kids mouth!

And Alien - your own designs are completely unoriginal. Cannibal tikis are thousands of years old, so are the designs at the sides of the eyes, etc. There is a Tiki at the Bali Hai that Oceanic Arts did that looks very similar to this one. It's about 50 years old. Who cares?

I like the work he put into this.

And if you look up your copyright legalities, you'll see that you cannot copyright a style. Everything that is hand carved is an original work of art and therefore does not infringe copyright. I helped draft legislation in the 90's about exactly this type of thing.

So if you don't have anything positive to say, don't say it!

First off I never claimed any copy right. Sculptures made of wood can not be copy written.

Secondly, I'll say and type what ever I please. so trying to give me your motherly advice won't work. The man "shamelessly copied" me and I don't appreciate it.

I took artistic license when I created my version of the cannibal. But if you are not an artist you probably would not notice some of the more subtle design variation's. So it doesn't surprise me that you don't see them Cammo.

first The teeth with gums on a cannibal, I have never seen. The eyes are separate from the nose, something I considered a design flaw from my work and he copied it to a T. And then there are several other points he copied from me that you would not find on any other cannibal tiki. Yes I made a copy of some primitive art but my work looks way different then my inspiration. Buffs carving on the other hand was a deliberate copy of my work.

boutiki, So you think that by posting picture of my inspiration that it proves something? If he wanted to copy a cannibal I clearly listed my sources, why not cut out the middle man and copy my source material? My carving is way different than my inspiration while he(by his own admit ion) tried to copy my work.

Here is my inspiration.

Here is my carving.

And finaly buffs copies of my work.

And this last image best expresses my feelings on the subject of general dusch baggery. And should serve as my final word on this thread.

my blog

[ Edited by: AlienTiki 2009-04-07 11:46 ]