https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=861&p=10740#p10740
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Deviant_Viking
Thursday, 24 June 2004, 09:17 PM


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Saw the post on PP (which now seems to have disappeared, surprise).
I agree that they should change the name out of courtsey (and the part of one of the artist not even being familiar with Bonnie was either a blatant lie, or it tells a little about the artists anyway..)
But appart from that, I'm afraid they're right. Unethical and just 'not nice', but I don't really think you can stop them if they go through with it.
Appart from it being a poser character, and named Bonnie, there isn't really anything in common with yours and theirs figure. And believe me, I've for various reasons started to look closer at ways to call people on their frauds and ways around stuff (special thanks to my landlords for that), but I think your case against them would hang in a thin thread at best.
It started to look like the incident with that manipulated photo I did. Thinking back on it, I don't think any of the solutions was a particulary good one. I made the pic without her concsent, but she overreacted way much. I got pissed and let it fuck up for me, so I decided to try and save the rest of my face and just removed the damn thing as she wanted.
Didn't make me look to good at the time, but not her either. Looks pretty much the same with this one.
If they change the name, you'll come off as a zealous artist over-protecting his work. They release the figure under the name Bonnie, they come off as pissing on their fellow artists and ignoring their work.
It's a lose-lose situation, but imho I think it'd be best if you just let them use the name. That way, at least you'll come out as the more gracious of you guys.
Some guy had blatantly used one of my Najove poritraits for some 2D pic, and claimed it was based on some poser work of his (which he later said was an attempt at doing my Najove, so he was still copying her).
I really wanted to just say what it was, which is a blatant ripoff.. instead I commented it looked nice, and said it reminded me of some of my work. Didn't like it, but I'd just come off as the asshole if I complained.

Probably looks like I'm against you, but I'm not. Just my opinion and what I think would be best to do in this situation, which just sucks