Chinese Oil Painting Knockoffs Go Unabated

I ran an article in the newsletter that preceded this blog. It was titled, The China Syndrome - Assembly Oil Line Paintings Come of Age. I also submitted a press release about the article via PRWEB. Both got a very strong response. Nearly two years since it was written, the latter continues to draw traffic to my Web site on a daily basis. The  point was the rather sleepy art industry (by comparison to software, films and music) was being aggressively attacked by Chinese companies that create oil paintings by the pound. Often blatantly knocking off artists from all genres and locations.

From the numbers provided by PRWEB, it's obvious it hit a nerve center. The statistics reported this usage: 26,862 times read/2,165 picked up by news media/8 times forwarded/27 times printed/427 times downloaded as a PDF. If you think the adverse publicity or government action has slowed down activity in this market, you'd be wrong. A syndicated article originated in the Toronto Globe and Mail recently caught my eye in Tucson's AZ Star. Here is the link: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/relatedstories/184714.php. It's a sickening tale of yet another artist discovering his art being illegally copied and knocked off. 

Around the same time I published my information, Robert Genn of the Painters Keys Twice Weekly Newsletter was also taking up the charge to try and stop knockoffs of his work and other Canadian artists he knew. If you read my story, you'll see it has been the subject of articles in the New York Times and ABC World News. Despite the press, the situation is far from being corrected.