A few weeks ago some friends made me aware that images of mine are used 
within Tumblr without any notice about the "artist" (that would be me in 
this case even if I do not call myself like that) and (yes, actually 
quite funny) obviously mistaken for photos.

I'll have to admit that I've never heard about Tumblr before (but I knew 
something like Facebook exists) so I did a bit of search and research. 
It seems that completely ignoring any copyright and intellectual 
property is part of the whole Tumblr idea. And BTW I also did find quite 
a lot images that are known to me as the work of other POV-Ray artists. 
As I am just a hobbyist my first reaction was to simply forget about it 
and as my wife did put it:
"Re-blogging other people's stuff is the whole purpose of Tumblr.
Go after them and you'll incur the angst of millions of teenage girls,
who'll be forced to produce original content - millions of duckface
self portraits and emo poems."

But a week ago I did have some spare time and I picked a few of them (5 
exactly and only the ones where it was easy to find an email address as 
the within Tumblr preferred "Ask me anything" method does not work when 
you want to put a web-link (to my own homepage where the image in 
question resides) and a email (to make it easy to answer me) there.
Well, this was a very friendly and polite mail just that I would like to 
get credit when some work of mine is used, No threads about copyright 
laws and I didn't even insist that it would be nice to be asked before-head.
This happened exactly one week ago and I did get exactly zero response 
not to mention that none of the images did get proper credit.

Now I'm really pissed. Somehow.
What do you people think about it? Any suggestions?

-Ive

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