On Notice

First timers on Wild Apple's website, www.wildapple.com, will see an intro page with a severe copyright warning in multiple languages. 

Wild Apple is a particularly friendly company, so it feels a little strange to put such a stark warning at the forefront of someone's experience with us.  But it's an important enough issue that anything we can do to discourage copyright infringement seems worth it.  Over the years Wild Apple and our extended family of artists and employees have been ripped off more times than I care to imagine.  It is an especially vexing problem in China.

Wild Apple pursues all infringements we find in the US with good success, and go after many cases outside our borders - even though it is much more challenging in countries that offer lackluster support for international copyright law.  We have been a part of the Art Copyright Coalition (www.artcc.org) since its inception, and work with other publishers in the industry to crack down on illegal cases.

Once you have seen the web page with the stern message once, it doesn't come up when you return to the site - we really do want to be the friendly company!