Post #795980 by tikiskip on Sun, Jun 30, 2019 4:42 AM

Good for you sounds like you got something.
Art like yours can be just flat out reproduced and ripped off over and over even mugs.

Think about just the tikibob that has been done a lot.
If that guy ever knew how many times that little mug would be copied he would flip, and yet we don't even know the name of the guy who first made tikibob, do we.

Poor guy got no money, no credit.
I think it's almost worst to loose any credit for your work than it is the money, to me.
But then for you it is how you make a living.

It's funny how if you copy a Shag the whole world falls apart and goes ape $hit, But copy some other guy and it's no big deal.

Lights are a bit harder to rip off but it's the ideas that get used and that goes on a lot in the tiki world and is kinda ok, same with mugs and carvings.

It's when you take an idea and beat the guy who came up with the art out of selling his stuff that's when it starts to get not so ok.

That's the very reason I don't do many how toos anymore.
When I'm dead do as you wish I say.

I have made dead on copies of a few Kahiki items like the table lamps, that guy has to be dead, and I made only a few.

But good luck, your art is great!

And they can't take away your abilities and skills.