After a few inquiries, this is what has been established so far:
- At least several people whose work is present in the "artvif" galleries
were never asked for permission by the gallery's owner.
- In several cases, the attribution is wrong
- In several cases, the permission would not have been granted since the
images were copyrighted by 3rd parties. There are also a few commercial
works.
- The gallery's owner met briefly with at least one of the authors many
years ago, and apparently thought that this was enough to give him the
permission to present the images on his website(s). He also thought proper
to attribute the works of other people to them, and to present these works
in what looked like personal galleries.

In addition to the bogus attribution of Jaime's image, several persons have

having their work taken without permission, by having someone else's work
attributed to them (leading other people to think they were the actual
thieves), and by having their names associated to this dubious enterprise.
They are not happy with the situation, and the matter is being pursued, i.e.
nastygrams are on their way.

Thanks to Lightbeam and Marc Jacquier for uncovering this!

Gilles

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