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Recent developments (Slight PSA and Notice)
3 years ago
Been a bit since I've had to do one of these kind of journals but, I guess I need to bring it up. Recently I posted commission works I got from 
erixdmanb of my corgi girl Taytay. We both found out within the past month that those works, as well as others of his were being used on youtube channels without EITHER of our consent to do so. Needless to say we both went through the process of dealing with those channels and managed to have the videos/channels removed. (turned out some of them were on their final strikes for the same stuff)
If there's one thing that absolutely pisses me off to no end, it's that people I don't know from anywhere use my commissioned work or my OC's for their own gain without asking for consent to do so.
For more context; I enjoy it when someone comes up saying "Hey! I liked (X) so I drew them and wanted to show you." that gives me the happiness to keep working on them, what I DONT enjoy is someone thinking "Oh hey, I'll take this piece, make (X) with it and give NO credit and claim the character is my own." That just makes me both depressed and angry for multiple reasons.
What I want to convey here is, if you see works being used from any artist you follow, let them know. In my case, I'm not big like other artists by any means, and to me, it feels like any chance I have of getting bigger and reaching out to new people to help grow both as an artist and creator; is stolen from me cause people will think THAT person did the work and not me or the person I commissioned for it.
This might be a rant but to bring back those channels mentioned earlier, after one was taken down they came BACK thinking they could dodge the same problem by making their own picture but didn't change ANYTHING about it, i.e used the same character, background, ect and reuploaded on a new channel (this has since been dealt with as well cause again, they did it with out any consent from me.)
TL;DR dont think that "asking for forgiveness is easier than permission" is applicable to artists. Everyone works hard and deserves the proper respect for their efforts.
erixdmanb of my corgi girl Taytay. We both found out within the past month that those works, as well as others of his were being used on youtube channels without EITHER of our consent to do so. Needless to say we both went through the process of dealing with those channels and managed to have the videos/channels removed. (turned out some of them were on their final strikes for the same stuff)If there's one thing that absolutely pisses me off to no end, it's that people I don't know from anywhere use my commissioned work or my OC's for their own gain without asking for consent to do so.
For more context; I enjoy it when someone comes up saying "Hey! I liked (X) so I drew them and wanted to show you." that gives me the happiness to keep working on them, what I DONT enjoy is someone thinking "Oh hey, I'll take this piece, make (X) with it and give NO credit and claim the character is my own." That just makes me both depressed and angry for multiple reasons.
What I want to convey here is, if you see works being used from any artist you follow, let them know. In my case, I'm not big like other artists by any means, and to me, it feels like any chance I have of getting bigger and reaching out to new people to help grow both as an artist and creator; is stolen from me cause people will think THAT person did the work and not me or the person I commissioned for it.
This might be a rant but to bring back those channels mentioned earlier, after one was taken down they came BACK thinking they could dodge the same problem by making their own picture but didn't change ANYTHING about it, i.e used the same character, background, ect and reuploaded on a new channel (this has since been dealt with as well cause again, they did it with out any consent from me.)
TL;DR dont think that "asking for forgiveness is easier than permission" is applicable to artists. Everyone works hard and deserves the proper respect for their efforts.
