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ATTN ALL ARTISTS: YOUR ARTWORK MAY BE STOLEN!
10 years ago
Three artists have already found pieces of their artwork stolen and posted on http://wallpart.com/ . This site makes posters, prints, and wall decor for a profit from a database of images. It only takes a moment to check to see if your artwork is posted on this website via your username on FA or Weasly.
If your work is listed here -WITHOUT YOUR PREMISSION- please report each piece immediately so it can be taken down. The violation button is located below the comments section after you click on the image. So far these images seam to come mostly from Weasyl and Furaffinity but other art websites may have been used also.
Also, there is also a petition to take this website down entirely. Over 49,400 have signed so far out of 50,000 needed.
https://www.change.org/p/remove-wal.....t-persmission?
Please spread the word. Thank you.
Update: Make that 4 artists. I found my character art on this website:
http://wallpart.com/poster/sombra-s.....2012-168426783
I am contacting the artist now. >_>
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Original alert from
SweetVixsin journal:
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6908209/
If your work is listed here -WITHOUT YOUR PREMISSION- please report each piece immediately so it can be taken down. The violation button is located below the comments section after you click on the image. So far these images seam to come mostly from Weasyl and Furaffinity but other art websites may have been used also.
Also, there is also a petition to take this website down entirely. Over 49,400 have signed so far out of 50,000 needed.
https://www.change.org/p/remove-wal.....t-persmission?
Please spread the word. Thank you.
Update: Make that 4 artists. I found my character art on this website:
http://wallpart.com/poster/sombra-s.....2012-168426783
I am contacting the artist now. >_>
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Original alert from
SweetVixsin journal:http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6908209/
Printing just anything off of Google or from any form of visual media would have gotten this company in legal trouble long ago due to copyright violations. They are making a profit off of work of other artists and photographers and may not care about consent until a copyright violation is posted or legal action is threatened.
Just to test out this theory, I used the same search terms for the image that I linked in a general Google search. There was no match. This art piece on FA not even tagged so I had to search for it manually in the artists gallery.
Then I just used my FA username and see if any of my art is tagged - 5 images were tagged in the top 15 results but none of them in the entire page of search results were this image.
"WallPart Respect the copyright of others. This means we don't steal photos or images that other people have shared and pass them off as your own."
Passing the buck for blame if something copyrighted shows up that someone else uploaded as I stated above.
"The displayed images are loaded from third-party servers, and aren't host on the site hosting."
They do have an off site image hosting site or there would be no images to search through. Furaffinity and Weasyl are at least 2 of the third-party servers that this site is apparently using.
What should I do, kitty?!
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/dmca/