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Reply to "Reminder About Proper Crediting of Sources"

Originally Posted by Veronica Lee:

If I copy an image I see on Pinterest and the artist's name is unknown, whom do I credit? Most of these images appear on many pinboards and no attribution is  given to the original artist.

It's unfortunate that Pinterest has made it so easy for people not to be properly credited but that's neither here nor there, really.

 

If you've done your best to locate the source artist and can't find him/her, then you can't credit that person obviously. However, Google Images allows you to search images across the web, so it's often easy to find the original source of the image that way. In fact, the images copied in this case were easily located in a Google Image search, and the original artists were identified by me that way. This took a matter of minutes. So if I was able to locate and credit the original artist to settle these reports, surely the cookie designers could have done the same thing.

 

Even an acknowledgement that the copied design is not yours is better than no acknowledgement. 

Last edited by Julia M. Usher
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