{"id":104,"date":"2005-08-29T21:13:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T02:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2005-08-29T21:13:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T02:13:55","slug":"copycats-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/2005\/08\/copycats-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"Copycats Copy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" style=\"width: 325px; height: 242px\" height=\"242\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lathamstudios.com\/rebeccasblog\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/MIST-MuteSwan-RL.jpg?resize=325%2C242\" width=\"325\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>I was just notified by a&nbsp;friend of mine that one of my watercolor paintings that&nbsp;I created last year, <em>&quot;Mist &#8211; Mute Swan&quot;&nbsp;(pictured left), <\/em>has been copied, plagiarized,&nbsp;by another artist.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I find it very, very&nbsp;sad that a professional&nbsp;painter (who would know better) would choose to be&nbsp;so uncreative as to copy another artist&#8217;s work and ideas&nbsp;&#8212; not to mention the kind of role model a person like this is being to the next generation.&nbsp; I am very disappointed and disgusted that we live in a world where adults behave in such an embarrassing&nbsp;manner.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#cc99ff\"><em>&quot;Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.&quot; &#8212; J. E. Hedges<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just notified by a&nbsp;friend of mine that one of my watercolor paintings that&nbsp;I created last year, &quot;Mist &#8211; Mute Swan&quot;&nbsp;(pictured left), has been copied, plagiarized,&nbsp;by another artist.&nbsp;&nbsp; I find it very, very&nbsp;sad that a professional&nbsp;painter (who would know better) would choose to be&nbsp;so uncreative as to copy another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,17,20,29],"tags":[65,687,324,447,472,477],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-paintings","category-paintings-of-birds","category-swan-paintings-sketches","tag-artist","tag-next-generation","tag-painter","tag-watercolor-paintings","tag-work","tag-year"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lathamstudios.com\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}