EDIT: Wow, you guys are AMAZING. I take the Metro home from work, and by the time I got home, you had these people tracked down. We’ll handle it from here! THANKS SO MUCH!
Got an e-mail from a terribly helpful reader regarding this (image links to high res):
This is a notebook that the reader found in France. There was this one and a few others with out images. I’ll copy and paste from the reader’s e-mail, because it outlines the situation rather well:
But the reason I’m mailing you… I went to France not long ago and I found a most peculiar item.
At first, I was pretty excited. I thought I’d found official Applegeeks merchandise.That was until I noticed there were neither copyrights nor credits nor any MENTION of Applegeeks or you on any of the “merch”.
The items in question were a series of generic notepads, complete with lined paper and no copyright.I don’t remember them all, but I believe this and this was also used as frontpages on the notepads, all cut and edited so that no text you’ve put in the image would appear.
All I’ve been able to figure is that it’s a greek company or something called “Studio Skag” (R). There’s no contact information or any sort of website or anything.
Now, given that the notepad I - admittedly - bought features an image of Pirokiko with a poorly added logo on her forehead, I assumed you’d probably not given your permission for the images to be used. Also, the image didn’t exactly look like it was printed from a high-def original PSD.
Now, as you guys know, this is pretty infuriating to any artist. We’re not going to flip out and type a stream of expletives in caps, though … we’re going to get to the bottom of this. To that end, if you’ve seen these around and have any information about them, please let us know immediately! This is not a small infraction; this is someone deliberately ripping off our work and then using it to make a profit.
IMPORTANT: The only lead we have is the barcode number on the bottom left … if anyone knows how to track that, we would be delighted to know.
Thanks in advance for the help. We’ll keep you guys updated …
Also, Fred Gallagher (Piro) of Megatokyo has been informed of this as well.
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