"Stop Art Fraud" Joy Beckner Fine Bronze Sculptor - from Hounds to Humans

March 2013

Another friend alerted me to a manipulated photograph of my “Dream Chasers – Best of Breed” that was posted on Facebook. While sharing photos is a compliment to an artist’s work, sharing photos of a living artist’s copyrighted work should include credit given to the artist and the photographer. Once alerted to what I would like to think is her unintentional misdeed, between Facebook’s copyright department and this person, the image is no longer on her page.

February 4, 2013, Thieves take More of my Mind and Money...

My eagle eyed Danish friend Susanne emailed me with a link to an auction site, Lauritz.com, showing where they had for sale a pair of “Squirrel Season” smooth bookends at their Hamburg, Germany, auction house. They had been presented with a table and the bookends (bronze or pot metal?) to sell as a unit and had no idea that the bookends were fraudulent copies. As requested, Lauritz promptly contacted the seller who said he had bought the bookends in China about four years ago, saying “Bronze was everywhere.”

Details: Only the male dachshund was copied for this pair of bookends. It is cast Bronze? Or pot metal? The dogs are mounted on dark green marble and measure 11”H x 7 1/2” W x 7” D. The entire pair of bookends is much larger than my 1:6 Scale original.

Little did I think I would spend well over a month tracking thieves of my intellectual property: "Squirrel Season" and "So Good to See You." When a friend found resin copies of Squirrel Season in a gift shop, I remembered that someone else had told me about them being on eBay last fall, when Edgar was so sick that I had no time to follow up. Since then, I have learned more about copyright infringement than I ever cared to know. While copies are flattering, they are ILLEGAL!

Long story, short, PLEASE, if you see any sculpture that remotely looks like anything on my site, in a shop, a catalog, on eBay or any other part of the web, kindly TELL ME who, what, when and where. If you see it in person, please report to me any information you see on the piece other than a "Made In China" sticker, if that is on the fake. Take pictures if you can, and email them to me. PLEASE do NOT spare my feelings.

Please, BE NO FRIEND OF FRAUD!

If you see anything that looks like a copy of my work, I will be grateful if you will tell me as much information as you can. Thank you very much!

Dream Chasers - Best of Breed
by Joy Beckner ©1999

Fraudulent Art Copy of Dream Chasers – Best of Breed

Squirrel Season Smooth by Joy Beckner ©2004

Fraudulent Copy of
Joy Beckner's Original Sculpture Squirrel Season

Squirrel Season Wire by Joy Beckner ©2003

Fraudulent Copy of
Joy Beckner's Original Sculpture Squirrel Season

Left: "So Good to See You" MS, Bronze, ©2003

Fraudulent metal copy:
"sausage-dog-posing"

Above: Chinese resin FAKE: "Daschund Statue" Resin

"Dreaming of Tomatoes" SS ©1996

Fraudulent metal copy: "sausage-dog-sleeping"

All my works are signed, numbered, include my logo stamp and are copyright protected. Everything has been registered with the US Copyright Office.

All Sculpture, all Art Work, All Jewelry and all Photos are Copyright Protected.
Please respect intellectual property.

All materials on this website, including, without limitation: sculpture, artwork, photographs, graphics, articles, html, programming code, etc. are protected by U.S. and international copyright laws, both as individual works and as a collection, and are COPYRIGHTED by Joy Beckner. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

eBay's Verified Rights Owner Program (VeRO) works to ensure that items listed for sale do not infringe upon the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of third parties. VeRO Program participants/members may identify and request removal of infringing listings. And I will do so, accordingly, to protect my works and rights against unauthorized use and infringement. I hold the exclusive rights for my creations, artwork, graphics, layout, text, and my name, my logo, and business name.
All of my images, photographs, HTML text, logo and designs which appear on eBay site and on my own website are protected under copyright law.
As friends, thank you in advance for reporting to me any information that may lead to the discovery of thieves of my intellectual property through copyright infringement.

Please contact me if you need permission!

Thank you, Joy