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# yeah, I know, links board etc..
www.journalism.co.uk/news/story3385.shtml

t is simply not true that we steal people's work and, to stop any claims in future, we have taken a view that we will only publish images where we have contacted the creator in advance and they have consented in writing.'
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:17, archived)
# WOO!
*has never had enough hummus to have any pictures stolen but is pleased for all the talented bastards*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:18, archived)
# *actually finishes reading the article*
Wait a minute, fucking bastards!!!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:20, archived)
# i keep emailing my stuff to them
they don't want to know
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:18, archived)
# ha ha ha
I firmly believe if I posted anything other than text, they wouldn't be interested in that either
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:20, archived)
# i mean, they take all that shit from bbdo, TGA and manic
and won't touch my stuff? what is the world coming to!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:24, archived)
# I'm thinking about posting to the talk board about...
erm... Michelle Marsh and Sam Cooke and then claim they stole them
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:28, archived)
# that cheap looking bird with the big tits?
yeah, i made her
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:32, archived)
# I have't a fookin clue who any of them are
but I think the description 'cheap looking bird with the big tits' is probably bang on the money...
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:33, archived)
# well, that'll be a result if they stick to it
but it is simply not true that we steal people's work

what a shower of cocks

edit - I just saw this circumstances are such that we believe the originator would have wanted to have their image brought to the attention of a wider audience

that's ok, then

cunts
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:20, archived)
# zoo magazine is bigger than the internets.
fact.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:36, archived)
# Bastards
3
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:21, archived)
# *glees in anticipation*
I'm about to go for lunch... should I wait?
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:21, archived)
# and in next week's issue,
The Lovely Keeley, 21, locks the stable door after the horse has bolted - and she'll be doing it topless!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:21, archived)
# Pathetic, snivelling little rats.
Not enough talent themselves so they have to leech from others- I'd call it flattery except it's so greasy and ugly- just like their common, carling swilling, knuckle dragging readers.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:21, archived)
# ning Capn
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:22, archived)
# Hello lovely.
*doffs the tricorner which still hasn't arrived yet*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:23, archived)
# oo are you gettin a real proper hat?
I like hats
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:24, archived)
# fuck yeah!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:27, archived)
# ooo I want one of them
I lost my Carl McCoy hat :(
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:28, archived)
# *cries forever and ever.*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:29, archived)
# he's put me off
my missus has a thing for Dick Turpin, so this sort of hat might do

except I haven't got the hair for it any more
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:38, archived)
# I'm so tempted by those.
Not that I don't have lovely hair anyway, I just want a choice.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:41, archived)
# Does she love 80s Adam Ant?
Humna humna says the captain *nods*

Get a leather brimmed hat and then beat the crap out of it.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:40, archived)
# that's what happened to my Carl McCoy hat
I beat it till it was the right shape

then it got covered in flour and dirt from 15th-century graves
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:43, archived)
# :D Goffik.
I need a proper leather hat so I can mistreat it until it gives in. Or make manwife wear it until it gives in (he wears in my belts)
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:44, archived)
# That is one hat of awesomeness
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:30, archived)
# Laird Dave Draws found it.
Because he is the man.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:31, archived)
# WOO for Mr Draws
Piratical millinery is teh sex.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:35, archived)
# *claps*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:35, archived)
# 'ning captain.
i've a good mind to manipulate a found copyrighted image for no reason at all, just because.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:24, archived)
# Well you know what I mean.
There's a difference between find, change, publish and find, publish.

Oh let me have my war.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:25, archived)
# go for their throats miluvley.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:28, archived)
# *snarls, leaps*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:30, archived)
#
"...B3ta, a British online community to which graphic designers submit satirical photographic mashups and montages..."

pah

*grumps*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:23, archived)
# Even Rocky had a montage!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:24, archived)
# gotta fade out in a montage
edit: also - afterning lovely capitan
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:29, archived)
# Afterning senor!
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:36, archived)
# *twirls moustache*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:39, archived)
# *twirls little lacy brolly*
Whah sir, I do declayre....
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:43, archived)
# haha
I'm glad to see CDCs come under 'satirical photographic mashups and montages'
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:24, archived)
# It is entirely true
that we are all bored graphic designers. Even if we don't realise it.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:58, archived)
# i don't believe that they try and contact the originator of the work at all
i mean, manics tag was still on his work, if they had bothered to look at his site they would have seen his article and could have email him directly to seek permission.

i think Emap are cunts, i am boycotting their magazines. the cunts.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:25, archived)
# Why would you want to buy them anyway?
If you want porn, buy porn. I object to them trying to pretend they're actually a lad's mag when it's just tits and scummy attitudes.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:28, archived)
# Or scummy tits and attitudes depending on how you look at it.
*prefers to look at it from behind her lovely Bizarre magazine*
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:30, archived)
# ^ THIS
Nuts and Zoo are for warty teenage boys with limp dicks who don't have the balls to ask for proper porn AICMFP
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:32, archived)
# who on earth still actually buys porn?
it's what the interweb is for.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:38, archived)
# they produce a surprisinf aray of magazines.
i for one am going to miss my monthly edition of 'creative cross stitcher'.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:33, archived)
# NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I only need three more sections of pattern and I can start stitching 'Sonja 21's tits!


(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:34, archived)
# LEET O CLOCK!
Ewwo Mister the Hat.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:37, archived)
# 'ello!


(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:45, archived)
# Ooh, good point
Sorry, I'd missed that you said the company not magazine
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:41, archived)
# I...
...think I'll have to invoice some folks from now on. Only problem is you don't often know when folk are using images.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:27, archived)
# Graphic designers?
We're not all graphic designers. What a strange thing to say about b3ta.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:32, archived)
# yes
it makes us sound respectable

bollocks to that
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:33, archived)
# Next weeks image compo....
rip the shit outta Zoo, Nuts and any other mags published by the same firm.

Sounds like they are fair game now and just begging to be shopped in the most malicious way possible.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:36, archived)
# Manwife started his new graphic designer job in Oxford today, bless him.
I'm not a graphic designer. I'm paid to be nice to people.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:34, archived)
# I'm not a graphic designer either
I'm a civil servant and project manager. I have no formal design or art qualifications beyond GCSE Art.

Still. Zoo have not yet stolen any vectors :)
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:37, archived)
# Too serious, I'd assume.
Which can only be a very good thing.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:38, archived)
# I *am* a graphic designer
with no formal qualifications whatsoever, except a degree in archaeology

very useful
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:40, archived)
# I can see that it would be
I myself find that my 2:1 in Microbiology is very useful for doing a job that is mainly law :)
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:44, archived)
# I'd love to have done something like that.
Nobody needs someone with obsolete editing skills who's handy with a steadycam, do they?

:-( No, I didn't think so.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:46, archived)
# That is always said whenever b3ta is written about
bored graphic designers, each and everyone of us
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 14:02, archived)
# Elle?
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:35, archived)
# Oh Elle?
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:35, archived)
# It's a women's fashion mag innit
What they be wanting with b3ta stuff?
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:36, archived)
# I know it is, I'm a woman.
(who reads Vogue)

I have no idea, I always thought of Elle's market as the cut price Vogue. Vogue of Basildon.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:39, archived)
# i did some work for emap
made a handshake deal on mobile phone content which they decided to deny all knowledge of 6 months later. kill them. they are just off oxford street if anyone got any party poppers we can detonate on them.
(, Mon 2 Jul 2007, 13:36, archived)