Hi, I'm absolutely new here—and to be perfectly honest I'm unfamiliar with much of XBMC.
The reason I'm here is to do with one of the images depicted in this thread for "Aeon Nox".
Specifically the image in the 3rd row on the left, called "programs3.jpg" in the file path.
In brief, it's the image of an abstract hardrive with binary code spilling out of it diagonally.
I'm the original author of this image, and the image included has not only been used without my permission, it's been edited quite severely from it's original form and my signature has been removed. The original desktop art piece is called "Drive Mastery". I completed the design in July of 2008 and it since has become one of my most stolen/misused artworks... even having been stolen by a 3rd party company and used in promotional wallpaper artwork for Gearbox for their Borderlands 2 title. I mention this not for acclaim, but to illustrate just how wide the amount of misuse has become with just this one art piece. I have since that day dedicated numerous hours of my life tracking down the places it's being used and asking for it's removal.
It's extremely mind-boggling to me that people of today, especially on the internet, don't or won't simply take 3 minutes to look for the original artist and contact them for permission. In a case like this, I might have even gone the extra mile and modified the work myself as well as given my permission. I really don't understand it. Finding me via this piece on the internet would have taken less than a minute for anyone with experience in using Google search. Note or Email for permission would have taken even less time. People seem to love the art... but moreover, it also seems everyone who is attempting to be someone in the design-world on the internet just wants credit for
my work—work that for me was inspired by my passions and set into with hours of my life and skills I've developed with patience and practice.
the original piece can be seen here in my deviantArt gallery, included with the original upload date (which is the first time it had ever been seen on the net):
Drive Mastery (Pack Preview )
I'm asking that the artist who made the decision to include this work in the skin please remove it immediately.
Because this is a software situation where many be using my uncredited unpermissed art already, and that I don't necessarily understand the process of how it works, I'll also be contacting the support and filing a DMCA legal take-down notice to them within the week.
Thanks for your time,
AHiLdesigns / Jesse Lax
(2012-07-30, 07:42)N.O.W.A.L.L Wrote: EDIT AUGUST 18/2012: other previews:
