Oh yea... it's happened with my works before too -3-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pR6Vqx-QIM

LMAO I remember that series

Poeple are too afraid for you to say no should they ask, I suppose

exactly

i once found a guy using a NSFW pic mine as avatar on steam, i was going to add him and tell him tu be careful with the nsfw avatar, or else steam would ban. Guess what? he blocked me and told his friend to add me and say he was sorry, because he was too scared that i would curse him '-'

"he was too scared that i would curse him"

Well, the word 'Doom' is in your name :p

I have the same problem but no matter what you say or do there's nothing you can do to stop them from doing such a thing. :/

Actually there is. Sad to say, but if Doom decides to go to e621 and other sites and request her art not be posted, they'll take it all down.

Yes some people will still try to use it in various places, but for the most part it'll no longer be allowed, at least there.

I figured that it would be the FIRST thing on MOST people's minds.

But then again... we live in a world where people trace and steal art, and refuse to acknowledge they did anything wrong.

It's on the internet, so it's free game, right?

Obvious sarcasm implied.

You can be asked in E621 to be addet on DO NOT POST list if you wish..not sure how well it would stop people doing this but one way to handle it? mayby?

Unfortunately, the character owners don't get added to the DNP list, only the artists. Its a truly bizarre system.

If they wanted, they could contact said character owners and tell them of their characters being altered and used. That would get a lot of furries I know up in arms about it really quick.

Its really weird how they have it set up. Anyone can file for a takedown, but explicitly artists and "publishers" get on the DNP list. I have no idea why a character owner wouldn't fall under a "publisher" though.

Sadly, the only way a person can really mark a character as their own intellectual property is by literally copyrighting the look and specific features that make that character unique.

For example, my persona is a black dragon. That's not really unique enough to say 'this is mine alone'. A lot of people use black dragons. He has some details about his appearance that are specific to him, but again... I've been around for a long time. A lot of the things I remember never seeing on dragon characters I see all the time now. So even using a lot of those features, he's still not really unique enough to earn a copyright, or to claim his appearance as belonging specifically to me.

Nowm, he does have a couple of features I've literally never seen on any other dragon yet, and using those, I *could* say 'Hey, that's my persona! Don't use that!' But the vast majority of furry characters are so literally generic that it's impossible to claim them as being unique... and let's not talk about the color swaps of some already copyrighted characters that people claim as 'original' or 'their own special character'. Because a majority of furries use already established concepts and forms (think 'foxes', 'wolves', 'dragons'), and most of them haven't really worked to flesh out of differentiate their persona from any other character, it makes it hard for e621 to tell someone 'that bird character belongs to someone else', because there's literally dozens of bird characters that look exactly the same.

Which is what has led to people having characters with ridiculous color palletes, weird proportions or physical features and other such things. I honestly think herms might have emerged in the fandom from someone's desire to make their characters more unique... and now we have people creating species with three and four gential features at a time! xD Always trying to find that one concept no one WANTS to steal or copy so they'll finally be unique.

But I found et on the google, it is free for anyone to use!
/sarcasm
Sadly people have no standards or manners...

Oh don't worry Im trying too fight with someone who took my shark girl an claims it as his own

I had a problem with e621 taking down a color-corrected version of a piece of art that I uploaded as the child piece of another one due to it not being full resolution. I didn't have a full resolution version of the piece I uploaded. They then had the gall to say "if you're going to upload a piece, it should be full resolution." Since then, I've just started filing take-down requests on all of my character art that ends up on e621 due to that. If they don't let me upload pieces of my characters, then they just won't get to host my art. Unfortunately, since I'm not the artist, they won't add me to the DNP list, so...eh. It gets tiring after a while.

why would they edit it? D:

Not enough dicks, usually

I agree, I've had people edit my work in such a way too

There's people who do that but don't ask cause well, being a popular artist does make some of the others afraid to approach you to ask for those things, but like to see their own versions of it.

I mean by right if they want to do anything of such they should just ask but there's lots who are just afraid of finally asking.... or some of them may not even have an FA/DA account that they can contact you with.



Still on the flip side, people editing your artwork does mean that your artwork is very very good quality for people to want to do it

Military rule #1:

It is better to beg for forgiveness instead of ask for permission.

That being said I generally don't edit other peoples work. Except occasionally coloring B/W art to relax. But I promise if I ever get the weird need to alter someone else s art I'll ask first.

I hate when this happens ;w;

Don't you just hate people like that? xC

the point is asking me before doing anything with my work

Never happened to me, hopefully it never will, but I understand just how bothersome it must be, let's hope they stop! :/

Double edged blade. People enjoy your work enough to make edits, but then is the question of their motive and what they hope to gain from said edit they made public with or without permission. The worst are those that edit and claim full or partial credit, but those kind of people are mostly are found on say Deviantart.

Those like on E621 who make small edits and post without permission, but give all proper tags/credits to original artist and take no credit themselves (tag artist wise too) often mean no harm. They are mostly too afraid to ask if it is alright and figure if artist doesn't allow such then they will have it removed or otherwise leave it alone if okay with such.

The fear of being told no stigma can be blamed there, and the hostility some "popular" people have towards their fanbase when asking for permission to do stuff as well, the bad apple & tree situation. So nobody ever asks and those that do are just very brave and proud of their edit, idea or work when told yes; but often dishearten when told no which then leads to a future of not asking anymore.

this has happened to me way too many times and it bugs the hell out of me, It's not too much to ask for a little bit of consideration before tampering with something that doesn't belong to you, it's just rude! i hope they stop doing that to you.

e621 is so terrible for distribution of art that doesn't belong to the artist. It gets to the point that I request private commissions and for the artist not to publicly post it in the first place... at least for my main character.

i found a nsfw edit of a friends piece, that they didnt know existed and it had been around a long time, traced to a DA account full of unauthorised edits, its since been taken down.

Haven't yet seen it done with my work but keeps seeing my oc bring posted on e621. I do ask before editing work.

Gosh you're so nice writing this... I would let the admins delete these edits right from the get go.

Your art is your property and the rights can not even be sold. People who do this definitely cross a red line and I recommend you being as consequent as possible about it.

Still sucks ass a lot

That's not only rude, it's illegal, sadly, as a private person you have hardly any chance to get those people punished, so many do such kind of stuff.

You are in G+ . why you dont ask? I woulg give you some profiles who do that in G+. I and my friends would help you fight this

Hey, did Doom give you permission to use his art as an icon?

she did ask me, no worries

Thanks chu ^ ^

He is the best ! He dont abuse me in art like others. Shame on them!

While I am guilty of editing images without permission, I will respect artist disclaimers to not to edit without permission.

I didnt mean that.

I guess that's the problem with being a popular artist. My condolences. I hope it doesn't mean that you'll stop drawing.