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Artist Impersonator

by alfred ng | May 10, 2009 at 05:29 pm

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As they say, “life is stranger than fiction”, I am not a well know artist by any means however one “artist” thinks my work are impressive enough to use as his own.

Recently, I discovered a Bangladesh born artist currently living in Toronto, Canada has copied a major part of my biography from my site, www.alfredng.ca and only changed the year, name and the country. The worst is he also uses my works as his own!

This is his link from his page “about us” www. nandonikfinearts.com which open to my site. I don’t know how long he been doing this. This came to me as complete shock and but why?

I check on his site as he runs an art school at his studio for kids and was using my site to promote his class. He does display his own works at his site and they are very different from mine.

I just think it is so pathetic for someone to do this!

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Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 18:09 on May 10th, 2009

being an artist myself, I find this disturbing and probably something that happens more often than we actually know.

I have something similar. A guy in California changed his name to mine and started painting but he does not tell people he is me.

The IP for the domain name is in Dhaka, so you could try contacting this person and make a complaint.

Domain Leader

Mr. Mahabubur Rahman

Mirpur

Dhaka

Dhaka,1216

Tel. +880.1712017274

Since this person lives in Canada what he is doing will be considered "internet crime" so I think you could do something. The following site should help you.

http://www.ccmostwanted.com/report/report2.htm

Keep us informed on NP

Good Luck!

Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 18:16 on May 10th, 2009

now I remember you from a previous post on "artists donate to art auction" sorry you don't post very often?

zichi

Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 18:49 on May 10th, 2009

if there is a local newspaper in the same district as his art school you could write your story to them!

navsingh (not verified)

at 19:07 on May 10th, 2009

Did u know Copyright is a human right

Uwe Paschen

at 01:55 on May 11th, 2009

I second LS his comments, It is a big problem I had a similar experience my self.

Jordan Yerman

at 06:04 on May 11th, 2009

The arts community in Toronto is a small world... once word gets out, this guy is hosed.

alfred ng

at 06:35 on May 11th, 2009

even I am not happy with what he done but I don't want him to lose his business ( his art school). I am still thinking how to deal with this.

Laughing-Samurai (not verified)

at 07:25 on May 11th, 2009

his site is hosted by http://www.bdonline.com/

alfred ng

at 16:44 on May 15th, 2009

It seems Mr. Islam been getting emails. The following is his email to me:

Dear Sir or Madam:
I'm Extremely sorry about that- it's big mistake to my web-developer,I was ill -that is why,I didn't see it,my web-developer hosted it few days.He Will remove biography immediately. Don't worry.
Once again I am sorry ---it's sor-rowble.
Thanks.
Best Regards- M. Islam

I checked on his site today and was glad he removed not only that offending page also removed his site all together.

However I find his excuses are unbelievable even if his site was done by someone else. Surly, that person has to work from the information and images supplied by him.

Why he never check on the contents before and after it published?

On his site, he claimed he does graphic and web design for small business why he needs outside help for his own?

I hope he learn the lesson of honesty from this sad affair!