Seems actor George Takei isn’t just famous for his stellar acting on Star Trek. He has parlayed his celebrity into appearances on the Howard Stern show and is something of a Social Media icon – especially on Facebook. And several times from an unmentioned cartoonist friend of ours. As you all know I am a big proponent of those who share other’s work to provide credit where you found it. It isn’t too hard even if you found the picture/cartoon on google because many artists, including yours truly, puts their URL on the image.
George, or whomever is posting for him, doesn’t seem to always have the time for that so he just takes it and posts it as is. Interesting that someone who is in the intellectual property business seems to miss that courtesy.
Any other celebrities that I should spoof their social media habits into a future definition?
NOTE: For those who were here yesterday I didn’t like my caricature of George Takei so I updated it.
If you use someone else’s work, it’s only fair to give them proper credit for it !
amen
Werd.
Or, better yet, pay them for it!
That would be asking a bunch
You mean all that stuff on the internet isn’t free??
No because there is chocolate on the net.
Not any more. We ate it all.
LOL
This is wonderful. Now I like George, but if he is stealing he needs to be called on it and loudly.
That’s what I do….
I um… shared on George’s Wall over there on facebook. \O.O/
I circled it to him on G+
Oh boy…you two want me in trouble don’t you..haha
Looks like it was taken down.
And you say you can’t change the world. You’re a mover even if you’re not a shaker.
Shake…at least 2x
With the leader…sent in from a fan. Bwahaha!
You forgot his Gov’t gig. He and Nurse Chapel are the voice of Social Security. 7.25 hours a day on the SSA channel in an office near you.
Who is Nurse Chapel??
Christine Chapel played by Elizabeth Ingalls… The blonde with the blue panties.
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/chapel
ahhhh…had no idea what her name was
You don’t know Nurse Chapel?
I do NOW!!!
If anyone use someone’s else ideas, or image then they should always be linked back to their site.
Thanks Deb…
Yes I agree with Deb now where’s my pen
I want to physically write something down,
it starts with ‘S’ has a ‘P’ and an ‘A’
in the middle and ends in a ‘Z’
Nobody should be adding work without linking
lol
back to the original artist, it is a Spaz trick
that I am definitely not in favour of so I will
be sending the Dragons round next, maybe even a
few Zombies just to drive the point home
I was going to say Dagger but that’s a bit too violent even for the Zombies, besides they just usually chew the fingers and toes off and gobble a cranium full of brains, if they can find any I mean
lol
Now I am going to hold you to all those things…hahah
I’ve been victimized several times.
And you were my inspiration but I wasn’t going to call you out in case you were uncomfortable with that.
I had noticed that Takei had re-posted many of your comics, but I didn’t look to see if your “info” was on there. I just, personally, recognized the work as yours and figured you had transcended to the big time. I hope people will find out who you are and come venturing to your site. I’d hate to see you have to go and Fake him up for stealing.
He transcended to the big time, just noone could easily link to him.
Wow.
Right after having my high fiber breakfast, I watched Sunday Morning. The first story was about a guy who seems to make a pretty good livin’ from copying other famous paintings.
He’ll copy the style and detail of each painting, right down to even ‘aging’ them so they’ll look weathered and worn.
At least he works at actually painting and running through the process of ‘seasoning’ them.
Anyways. Not sure what that story has to do with this post, but there you have it.
INteresting there is a huge market for original copies of famous works.
Many jokes I’ve no idea who the authors are, but when I find images I always give them the credit. It’s the right thing to do.
Have a terrific day.
Jokes are hard unless they were originally shared by a famous comedian.
And when do we get to see a video of you telling jokes in a bear costume…I mean, uniform?
I thought you saw it.
You’re Yogi Bear? I should’ve known.
Maybe he’ll steal this cartoon?
haha Doubtful
This is a great cartoon. I think I am going to steal it and put it on my site
Seriously, he could use his posts as a forum to promote the content he shares. Hopefully his book on the subject of being a “social media icon” will credit the content creators he uses in that?
Oh crap he is writing a book? Nate you better look for your stuff.
Interesting. I subscribe/follow his page and I don’t recall him not giving other people credit for stuff that he posts.
Then again, I’m not on FB 24/7 either.
When it is never there, you don’t notice it is missing
I will only give credit if I know it is from the original source. There is so much pilfering and rephotoshopping now, it is hard to tell. Youtube is the worst. I have had one of my websites’ content stolen and re-copyrighted (and it was by a local government department!!!!).
I would have to agree with you, at least with images you can have a better possibility to find the original owner with TinEye, with words the best thing to do is to take a larger portion of text, Google it and then use the search tools to find the latest date.
That’s why I try to meta the hell out of my stuff.
Some Indian media company stole my chocolate bar image and it was ranking quite high in Google, but my original one wasn’t. I told them about it, but they didn’t seem to do anything about it. But when I just checked now, my original image is in the results, and their copy isn’t. Maybe they listened to me and took it down.
I thought you ate all the chocolate on the internet
Those Indian sites are evil. I went on a copyright/royalty free image site and the images had all been stolen off Wiki.
That’s why my company won’t let us use free images even from flickr because there is no way to verify.
haha And you know you can’t sue the government loon.
Then again you actually post some content someone else wants to claim??
It wasn’t from my Loon site silly. I steal all of those stories
That is interesting that he wouldn’t give credit where it was due. Maybe he has thinks that because it is about him or pertain to him he does’t have to. Some celebrities aren’t the brightest either.
I think it is more laziness than malice
Great likeness of George Takei Bearman. Excellent work as usual. I just stole something from his FB wall. I’ll G+ it wthout credit to him Bwahahahaha!!!
Yes but you just stole something he stole.
That makes it okay then, right?
Doesn’t that sort of thing get you kicked-out of Starfleet?!
(Awesome likeness, Bearman…)
Thanks…good thing you didn’t see the original
Nah – I bet it was pretty awesome, too.
Great Characature of George Beerman!
Thanks…and hopefully not a bad caricature either..haha
Haha I would love it if George see this one and then responds
See below…
I provide an attribution whenever I can. 99% of memes and images are posted to my wall with no verifiable origin.
Thanks for responding.
I agree that Meme’s and images can be tough…though I see several cartoons currently on there without attribution and the URL or name of the creator is obviously on the image.
If other’s are posting on your wall then I would make it clear that they should be providing links. It is only fair.
You’re right!
And the only thing that separates “take ” to “Takei” is “I.” Or me. Damn, I almost had a joke there.
When you figure it out, let me know.
Try to say this not in George Takei’s voice, “Oh, my!”
Impossible!
As long as it isn’t inconceivable
Now you are making think of The Princes Bride, that and LMFAO which = inconceivable on my phones spell check.
It’s like wrestling with a octopus I tell ya.
I have absolutely no idea who this guy is. Is he related to the Gangnam Style guy?
If this makes it to a comic con, you’ve got a hit.
Maybe he’s using the “replicating machine”.
I hear in the future there is no theft … because there isn’t anything worth stealing probably.
This is not right to use someone’s. There should be some pay out taken and may be other things taken while using someone’s. This will also become a great medium of making of virtual relationship.
Good call with this post. Whenever anyone fails to credit someone, they can just link to this and call it a win.