Plagiarism...

[Florian Stadler]

Your credit on the end of the film is listed as camera operator, yet you claim the film as your own. Do you find that 100% ethical?

 

[Joseph Hutson]

Hi Joseph,

You did an excellent job on the short, be proud of that. You can spend your whole life going after people like this but why waste your talent and time on them. Just not worth it. I admire your focus and direction in life, if my son turns out half a good as you I'll be a very happy dad.

Best, Peter

Thank you, Peter. Your words are too kind.

For the record, I have no hard feelings for the people who took our film and re-created as their own. At this point, it has persoanlly done me no harm and brought a smile to my face.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Yeah, I would say that's the right reaction. My cousin is a professional artist with work around the world. He started finding his work on Ebay from a Chinese printer and talked to one of his friends and mentors and he said "You can tell them to take it down, you can threaten to sue but ultimately you'll just spend a lot of time and energy.

You're doing the right thing imo you're getting good publicity. Milk it.

And cool short!

 

[Peter Strietmann]

"If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!" - Paul Gauguin