Don't you just love when other people take credit for someone else's work?
Check this out:
http://www.scrumptions.com/wed_chocolate.asp
Now check this one out....
http://mysite.verizon.net/dsailesevents/id16.html
Some nerve...boy this really burns me up!! I understand giving credit for copying someone else's work but come on....All the time and energy to make a cake and someone steals your work and posts it as their own??
Peggy
forward this to the folks at scrumptions with suggestion they threaten lawsuit.
and if you check other pages, there are other stolen photos as well ... like the theme kits photo.
maybe if dsailes is threatened, the photos will be removed.
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it's sad that we have to be so aggresive in protecting our property.
Don't you just love when other people take credit for someone else's work?
Check this out:
http://www.scrumptions.com/wed_chocolate.asp
Now check this one out....
http://mysite.verizon.net/dsailesevents/id16.html
Some nerve...boy this really burns me up!! I understand giving credit for copying someone else's work but come on....All the time and energy to make a cake and someone steals your work and posts it as their own??
Peggy
Ironic that you post this because I am continually browsing photos in here and I see very similar cakes- people copying cake ideas (which there is nothing wrong with and all of you seem to give credit where credit is due anyway) like say from other CC members or Wilton or other books- so yeah that's pretty cheesy- the irony is that I've seen some cakes that could be identical because you all are so pro! But you do a double take and see the backdrop or whatever is different- and I always thought that was fantastic not to tell thedifference.
I wonder who cheated off who- did you email? Should email both of them and say 'hey did you know someone is laying claim to your work' LOL
I dont see the huge problem with using some one's idea and creating a cake from their picture. But it is absolutly not ok to use a picture of a cake someone else has created and call it your own, especially on a professional web site where you are using your pictures to sell your product
I'll start by saying No I don't think it is right to claim someone else's work as your own.. That being said... I see NOTHING wrong with using someone elses idea to create your own version... As long as proper credit is given to inspiration... The only reason people buy so many of these decorating books-- whether it be wilton to collette peters --we all use those as inspiration to make something similar or some of us do try to copy the cake... but like I said copying and giving credit for it is one thing.. but stealing a photo and claiming it as your own is just wrong!!!
Hope that made sense!!
I tell you, I cannot design a cake out of the air. I spend a lot of time looking at pictures, and then making that cake, or something like it. At this point, I try to write down whose idea the original cake was, but when I first began, I just saved the photo, and now I have bunches. Now, I don't use others' photos, but I do copy the cake and take a picture of my own. That way it is my work. The cake with the yellow roses on my pictures is someone else's idea, I changed the color of the roses and did my own. But I did my own.
So, I guess I wonder if y'all really think it's a problem if someone else copies your idea and puts that on their site, as long as it's your own work?
Of course, I think it's wrong to put someone else's pic on your site.
I think using other people's designs for inspiration, or even trying to duplicate them yourself, is perfectly acceptable. That's part of the reason for posting photos, in my opinion (in addition to getting pats on the back, of course!). Most people on this site are great about giving credit to the inspirational cake, and if not, they at least acknowledge that they were inspired by other people but can't remember exactly who. I think it's a compliment when someone is so inspired by your work that they want to try it on their own.
You know what's even worse? The fact that the photos were never even renamed when put on the 2nd site.
Well, I'm not so sure that that is even worse....but I think that is totally wrong to claim someone else's work as your own.
Inspiration is one thing, outright stealing is another.
I wonder if there's some explanation of some sort . . . one place seems to be a bakery, the other a party planner. I wonder if they've worked together, hence the pictures??? Though, they do seem to be a good distance apart . . . I just can't seem to believe that it's intentional theft of copyrighted images because that's just so WRONG!
I also looked at the location of both because I had thought of the same thing, ckkerber. I still can't quite believe the gall of some people. You want to give people the benefit of the doubt because you think well, they wouldn't REALLY do that...eh, just goes to show you that some people don't know right from wrong! 
Actually after further investigating I knew I saw one of the items with the watermark "about the cake" and knew that I saw that website before so I did some digging...Sure enough, the wedding cake with the flowers/veil is the work of About the cake.com...so I emailed her with the same info I emailed the other website and this is the response I received:
"Thanks for letting me know...checked out the website and believe it or not 4 of the cakes pictured are mine and even have my name on the photo and I've contacted them".
Someone asked about the party planner events...however some cakes are from Ohio, and others from RI not to mention who the others might belong to. They claim on the website that quote correctly: "Wedding cakes, birthday cakes or cakes for any special occasion will become more memorable when baked by the cake designers of DSailesEvents!" Hmmm 
I'm all for "borrowing" an idea because most of us do it at one time or another, nice bow, design, stacking, etc...however to just upload it on your website without permission is just wrong.
on his photos page, he's lifted two photos from Stumps.com, a prom and party decorating supply company.
note: the girl in the grecian columns (Midsummer Garden @ Stumps)
and the couple in the star swirl (By the Light of the Moon @ Stumps)
just emailed Stumps about this.
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such theft cannot be tolerated!!!
OOPS!!! Just realized that the 2 tier Communion Cake I posted here I didn't credit Wilton for the idea. Sorry!! 
Need to edit to say that Wilton also deserves credit for Doll cake idea. Again, I am soooo sorry. I didn't even think of it when I uploaded them.
Okay, I'm confused. So who stole the cake from whom? Is the second link the thief or the first? I agree, though, it's terrible to do that. Imagine if someone actually ordered the cake from the thief. I bet they can't even come close to decorating it the way it's pictured. 
The second link is the person or people who "borrowed" the pictures. They not only borrowed the photos from an RI decorator but from an Ohio decorator also.
Doug went through the website further and figured out that even the event info is "borrowed"..
Even one of the entries in the Wedding cake contest that is on Cake Central is on their website...
I ditto what everyone else says about inspriation and giving credit when appropriate. I was also kind of hoping that these were some stock photo that the website designer bought on a cd somewhere. Actually, maybe it is...who knows!!!
I have YET to make a cake that I didn't have to "design" the cake forst by getting ideas and patterns, etc from all of the wonderful bakers and decorators on here. But, I would NEVER use one of their phots as my own! That's effed up!!! (2 glasses of wine talkin' here....)
I think this is a bunch a crap.
Before my CC time, a good portion of my photos were used without my permission when I had a website via Yahoo. I'm sorry, but it's just not fair to me after spending $$ to learn how to do the basics to the elaborate decorating that some uncreative jerkface can just go in and take my pictures and claim them as there own. They werent ideas, they were cakes I made. Cakes that could have been duplicated, but yet had the same table linens in the background, and showed MY BACKYARD as well! I contacted the theif at Cakesbywendyj.com and asked him/her to remove them and they did but that's not the point. It really upsets me to know that they were passing my work off as their own.
Lesson learned: get a website where you can disable the right-click option and get your photos watermarked.
Lesson learned: get a website where you can disable the right-click option and get your photos watermarked.
Watermark is the only way to avoid that. Company name watermarked right across the middle of the photo. Disabling the right-click option isn't foolproof because you can use the Print Screen key on the keyboard and get a photo of someone anyway. It's a tragedy of this medium that makes it so easy for people with loose ethics, or non-existent, to have fun and not consider the repercussions of their actions. I was one of 3 people helping design the CD for the charity I am on the board of, and it was suggested that we put the music and a couple of scenes from a docu movie in the background. I said that's great but we have to get permission from the Distributors of the film first to use their stuff. 'Oh well it's not like we're trying to sell the CD and make money off of it.' So what, it's the proper procedure, and if we want to be a credible business (non profit or no), then we do it properly, even if emailing France (location of the distributors) takes us a few months.
I just cant believe someone would do that. The sad thing is the customers of this company unwittingly spending their money with someone who has no integrity.
Personally, I don't feel the need to disable right-click. I consider it an honor if someone would use one of my pictures for INSPIRATION. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, indeed. I use many pictures from others for ideas.
However, I do think everyone should watermark any stuff they have on a website. That way, someone else shouldn't post it on their website, although it didn't work in this case, did it? LOL I think we shouldn't let our guard down, make it so that others can't post our pictures. Like oceanspitfire said, it is sad that someone would spend their money with someone who didn't have integrity. How terrible would it be to find out someone is not the baker you thought they were by looking at your own inferior wedding cake.
How terrible would it be to find out someone is not the baker you thought they were by looking at your own inferior wedding cake.
Yeah, in any situation certainly, but especially on your big day, you're spending possibly thousands of dollars to make everything go just right~ well there are slugs who call themselves businesses everywhere sadly.
Well that is just Astonishing! I don't recognize many, but I do see the contest cake in the first link. I can't get into the second linked site...
I do see something on the first site that *sort of* says something like, "Use these pictures as a starting point", and that may be their own way of trying to say "We didn't SAY we MADE those cakes...they're just for inspiration..." But it sure does appear that they're showing their OWN cakes, from the way they have them posted. I do notice that a lot of the backgrounds in many of them have been whited out rather clumsily by some photo editing...I wonder how many other actual baker's websites they've pirated from..?
I'd say, if they can't show some of their own cakes that are good enough to inspire their customers or, at the very least, show their skill, then they shouldn't have a photo site in the first place. Instead they might just post a link that says, "Go to CC to the Gallery for ideas for your cake, and we'll try to recreate it. If we can." !! 
On the copying thing--honestly, I'd be very very flattered if someone, especially a business, wanted to use one my cakes as an inspiration for their customers. And I don't care a whit if someone on here takes one of my cake pics, copies it down to the letter for a bride, and then posts their completed picture on here without crediting me. (Really---feel free to use them to your heart's content, with my blessing; I totally do not care...) But to post it as if it's their bakery's own work ("See what we did last weekend?") is just pathetic. And probably highly illegal. And a few other things...
Thanks for being on the lookout.
It's not just here that it happens. Ebay is another place where people pirate pics all the time. Roses and garden pics come to mind--that is my other passion. I hear the same thing over and over in that field as well.
Unfortunately the second link didn't work for me either.
However, I would never use someone else's picture and pass it off as my own but I have saved pictures and made ones like it. I have always credited where they came from, not by name per say but I have said I got this from this website or Wilton book.
I have only been decorating cakes since March so especially in the beginning it's much easier to do a cake from a picture than to completely think of one and execute it into a cake. I am getting more confident so the creative part is starting to come to me. Also, some of the times I have shown people pictures as an idea of what I think I can do and some want it just the way they saw it others let me change a little bit.
I do have a question, I am in the middle of becomming legal and setting up my own website. Am I allowed to use the pictures of the cakes that I have made even though they look similar to the ones I made them from.
I would never use someone else's picture as my own, I don't think it's right.
Thanks,
Michelle
Oh Whoa!
I just went back to the first link, and there at the top of the internet browser in the very top title bar on each cake gallery, it says, (and I quote) right there in plain view:
"Colorful and Unique Designs by Scrumptions of East Greenwich"
This is on the page that includes the colorful contest cake from CC.
or how about
"Romantic Wedding Cakes Baked by Scrumptions of E.G."
WHAT????!!!
Each gallery has a similar title at the top, so they ARE TOTALLY taking credit for these pictures.
Now THAT gets me mad!!! 
They do need to get in trouble for this, unless they actually BAKED every @!#%$^$ one of those cakes.
ooh! argh ! 
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