It seems a lot of us in the Furry community believe that what we create is only of interest to the Furry Community. Recently Megan Giles (dustmeat on FA) discovered that a pice of her art was featured on some pants retailed by Kohls Department Stores. She was not aware of this, until someone pointed it out. The art was either directly stolen by the producers of the clothing, or someone sold it to them, claiming it was theirs. She is going to investigate this, and hopefully she will end up with some kind of compensation.

This is just an example of the point I was trying to make in my Furry Style journal. Whether we believe it or not, a lot of what we creat in the Furry community has considerable appeal Outside the community. I think we need to start thinking of actually tring to market our own creations, directly or through existing businesses, with fair deals for the original creators. If we just keep pretending that our work is not worthy of a larger audiance, someone else will just steal it from us.

A community made up of so many creative people can't be ignored by the masses forever.