How would you feel if you walked into a home-decorating store at a mall and saw prints of your paintings being sold? Cheap and badly done prints to add to the insult? It's not that I hadn't ever heard of it happening, it's that having it happen to the artist who created the painting I have hanging in pride of place in my lounge, and at a chain of stores I shop at myself, makes it really hit home. Read the full article...
http://painting.about.com/b/2008/02/10/copyright-infringement-comes-close-to-home.htm