Takei – Definition

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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.

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81 responses to “Takei – Definition”

  1. duncanr Avatar

    If you use someone else’s work, it’s only fair to give them proper credit for it !

    1. Jande Avatar

      Or, better yet, pay them for it!

      1. Bearman Avatar

        That would be asking a bunch

  2. Binky Avatar

    You mean all that stuff on the internet isn’t free??

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No because there is chocolate on the net.

      1. Binky Avatar

        Not any more. We ate it all.

  3. Valentine Logar Avatar

    This is wonderful. Now I like George, but if he is stealing he needs to be called on it and loudly.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      That’s what I do….

  4. Mike W Avatar

    I um… shared on George’s Wall over there on facebook. \O.O/

    1. Red Dwyer Avatar

      I circled it to him on G+ 😛

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Oh boy…you two want me in trouble don’t you..haha

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Looks like it was taken down.

          1. George Avatar

            And you say you can’t change the world. You’re a mover even if you’re not a shaker.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Shake…at least 2x

  5. Red Dwyer Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Who is Nurse Chapel??

      1. Red Dwyer Avatar

        Christine Chapel played by Elizabeth Ingalls… The blonde with the blue panties.
        http://www.startrek.com/database_article/chapel

        1. Bearman Avatar

          ahhhh…had no idea what her name was

          1. Binky Avatar

            You don’t know Nurse Chapel?

          2. Bearman Avatar

            I do NOW!!!

  6. Deb Avatar

    If anyone use someone’s else ideas, or image then they should always be linked back to their site.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks Deb…

      1. Gray Dawster Avatar

        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
        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 🙂 lol

        1. Gray Dawster Avatar

          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

        2. Bearman Avatar

          Now I am going to hold you to all those things…hahah

  7. Nate Fakes Avatar

    I’ve been victimized several times.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      And you were my inspiration but I wasn’t going to call you out in case you were uncomfortable with that.

    2. George Avatar

      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.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        He transcended to the big time, just noone could easily link to him.

  8. Jim Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      INteresting there is a huge market for original copies of famous works.

  9. Comedy Plus Avatar

    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. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Jokes are hard unless they were originally shared by a famous comedian.

      1. George Avatar

        And when do we get to see a video of you telling jokes in a bear costume…I mean, uniform?

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I thought you saw it.

          1. George Avatar

            You’re Yogi Bear? I should’ve known.

  10. DadaHyena Avatar

    Maybe he’ll steal this cartoon?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      haha Doubtful

  11. Christina Avatar

    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?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Oh crap he is writing a book? Nate you better look for your stuff.

  12. G.B. Miller Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      When it is never there, you don’t notice it is missing

  13. frigginloon Avatar

    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!!!!).

    1. Rent Textbooks Avatar

      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.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        That’s why I try to meta the hell out of my stuff.

    2. Binky Avatar

      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.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        I thought you ate all the chocolate on the internet

        1. frigginloon Avatar

          Those Indian sites are evil. I went on a copyright/royalty free image site and the images had all been stolen off Wiki.

          1. Bearman Avatar

            That’s why my company won’t let us use free images even from flickr because there is no way to verify.

    3. Bearman Avatar

      haha And you know you can’t sue the government loon.

      Then again you actually post some content someone else wants to claim??

      1. frigginloon Avatar

        It wasn’t from my Loon site silly. I steal all of those stories 😉

  14. Rent Textbooks Avatar

    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.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I think it is more laziness than malice

  15. Tony McGurk Avatar

    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!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Yes but you just stole something he stole.

      1. George Avatar

        That makes it okay then, right?

  16. spilledinkguy Avatar

    Doesn’t that sort of thing get you kicked-out of Starfleet?!
    (Awesome likeness, Bearman…)
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks…good thing you didn’t see the original

      1. spilledinkguy Avatar

        Nah – I bet it was pretty awesome, too.

  17. Bill Murphy Avatar

    Great Characature of George Beerman! 😉

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Thanks…and hopefully not a bad caricature either..haha

  18. Christy Birmingham Avatar

    Haha I would love it if George see this one and then responds 😀

    1. Bearman Avatar

      See below…

  19. George Takei Avatar
    George Takei

    I provide an attribution whenever I can. 99% of memes and images are posted to my wall with no verifiable origin.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      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.

  20. Brian Hagen Avatar

    You’re right!

    And the only thing that separates “take ” to “Takei” is “I.” Or me. Damn, I almost had a joke there.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      When you figure it out, let me know.

  21. Tony DiGerolamo Avatar

    Try to say this not in George Takei’s voice, “Oh, my!”

      1. Bearman Avatar

        As long as it isn’t inconceivable

        1. Rent Textbooks Avatar

          Now you are making think of The Princes Bride, that and LMFAO which = inconceivable on my phones spell check.

  22. Jande Avatar

    It’s like wrestling with a octopus I tell ya.

  23. Young American Wisdom Avatar

    I have absolutely no idea who this guy is. Is he related to the Gangnam Style guy?

  24. Jack of Gulls Comic Avatar

    If this makes it to a comic con, you’ve got a hit.

  25. planetross Avatar
    planetross

    Maybe he’s using the “replicating machine”.
    I hear in the future there is no theft … because there isn’t anything worth stealing probably.

  26. Waterproof Stickers Avatar

    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.

  27. Tyler Avatar

    Good call with this post. Whenever anyone fails to credit someone, they can just link to this and call it a win.

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