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Art Theft - Blog Posts
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Minthara-Baldurs-Gate-3-love-by-GregoryMendoza/152934914.FB110.XYZ I've been reported that this person out there is selling T-shirt with my artwork (WHICH WAS COMISSIONED), I know I'm not a popular artist at all, but there are a bunch of other products with some arts on them. So if you're an author of those you should strike him as well. (Examples below)
I found three of them in toastingpencils37's second post! (Sorry for tagging)
The first one belongs to @gentleroy (Bumblebee)
Three belongs to @emberfriday
Four and six belong to @xpurplepiex
Stilling finding out who the rest are, but I'll work on updating this soon
Normally I'm pretty chill, but I found someone trying to claim others art as their own, please help me find the og artists so they can get this person permanently banned or smth!
Really disappointed honestly
IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.
YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.
The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.
Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog]". (This post shows how to do it on browser and on mobile.) You need to do this with every sideblog. (Note: The option in settings might not appear if your app hasn't updated yet. You can still opt out via browser.)
Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.
Art Theft
I’ll put out a plea…
I would like to ask any artist who sees this: Please, if you don’t already put your username on your artwork, PLEASE, start putting your username on your artwork. It’s not ugly, it’s not a distraction from your beautiful work. You deserve credit.
Write it next to the character, get creative and put it in the background as part of the visual, throw it on the left side of the image, avoid the bottoms and tops of the image though as those are easily cut off.
MAKE IT ANNOYING TO EDIT IT OUT.
PLEASE.
MAKE IT BIG.
MAKE IT FLASHY.
MAKE IT PART OF YOUR ART.
And please block any art thieves. Report them if they steal your stuff, tell people whose stuff has been stolen. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT. Don’t let people trick you into thinking you have no right just because it’s fanart. YOU DO. IT’S YOUR ART.
hey please don't trace & credit the actual artist thank you
Day 6 of drawing for 30 days
Day Six: Lady Nagant (My Hero Academia)
Hey Disco fanartists
I found a few shops on redbubble selling stolen disco elysium fanart
If you want to find out if your art has been stolen too (and maybe report it), these are the shops I'm talking about:
LivedIn
smashtransitco
smashtransi
I was on YouTube short, where this add came up. This add took your tiktok and is claiming your shimeji is in it apps @bambitek . I wanted to inform you and other to not download this app.
update: I’ve received an email from Redbubble stating that the product has been removed for now, though apparently they can submit a “counterclaim”. But since they’re blatantly stealing, hopefully they won’t want to drag this mess even further.
So i just found my work being stolen and sold on Redbubble by this user called Neko Noelle.
Oh, the thief is also selling works by other artists but I don’t recognize a lot of them….plus a deathnote journal where they literally ripped off the death note logo….=_=;;.
Also, Please note that I do NOT sell my work anywhere at all (except maybe really old ones on my deviantart. but nothing new in the last 2 years).
PSA A BRAND CALLED WILDBERRIES IS STEALING MY ART PLEASE DO NOT BUY THOSE PINNS
In did not consent nor give permission
They stole my art and are proffering off of it
And the worst thing as a small artist I can’t do anything about it.
I've avoided publicly addressing this but I've been having my work traced and redistributed for months. Even after trying to resolve this in private, I was told that the user would stop only to find more instances of the same behavior persisting. I feel like the only thing I can do at this point is to ask others to not support this individual in the future.
Please avoid commissioning/buying designs from/working on projects with the user melkquette/melkquett3/melkqtt.
Below are examples of my work overlaid the art that they uploaded. Please note that these aren't all of the examples but a select few where it's clearer to see.
In November I found their commissions page advertising their artwork using traced pieces of mine. Many of these were uploaded throughout their social media accounts with captions stating that they were created for other users. I also found traced art as part of larger collaborative projects like games or being sold as adopts. I don't allow people to trace and upload my personal artwork, so I emailed Melkquette about this matter hoping to solve this in private.
Melkquette stated that they stopped using my art months ago and weren't able to update their pages since they were offline, but intended to take responsibility.
In that same email, Melkquette wrote this would stop, though they also denied directly using my artwork for projects/commissions and stated they only referenced.
When I pointed out that this was untrue based on the examples provided in our emails, I didn't receive a reply.
For additional context, the assets below were intended for a visual novel project as character visuals, traced over my art. The screenshot was provided from a project development Discord and directly contradicts the idea that unoriginal assets wouldn't be produced/were never produced. This same example was also shown in my initial email where I requested they stop.
Despite responding untruthfully, I was willing to accept Melkquette removing the uploads and no longer using my art as the solution. Most of the posts were taken down with a few exceptions, and they deleted their commission information page that held many of the stolen artwork as samples.
However, I later found this piece was uploaded in January this year, around two months after I privately requested for the misuse of my work to cease. This was created for another user who was not told that this artwork was traced.
Since then I've found additional pieces that were traced from different sources. Upon identifying the originals, any artists I found were privately contacted about this matter. But it also shows that if not using my work, Melkquette continued using the art of others and didn't care to remedy the core issue at hand.
Recently, Melkquette remade their commissions page with a new set of examples that still includes traced work. Note that this user previously stated that they haven't had the opportunity to update their pages due to being inactive after being caught in November, but this is a newly created webpage that's still advertising their work using mine.
I've been told by different users that even though they recognized my style within these uploads, the use of my older personal art to Frankenstein these pieces made it harder to identify that it was traced at all. As a result, there's been a demand for their commissions based on the idea that their art simply resembles mine when that isn't true. I've had to send tickets to take down uploads of this kind of work, and it's unfortunate that others have been spending their hard-earned money on commissions of their characters/ideas only for the art they get to be unauthorized.
I produce much of my art for clients and friends. By allowing this to continue, it disrespects the third parties who own the characters in the original work. Having to tell strangers to take down unauthorized tracing also brings additional people into a problem they didn't ask to be part of in the first place.
I don't want anyone to harass this user, which is why I'm electing to only post this on the smallest platform I have.
If I can't be respected and they won't hold themself to using original work, I'm hoping that this is substantial enough evidence to dissuade anyone from working with them. I only want people to be aware and to lower the demand so that this happens less - that's all.
Please if you can help these two lovely people and report these pieces of art or ask kindly of they could take it down.Please do not send any hate messages or anything that goes along that category…
Stealing someone else hard work is not acceptable and nither is posting ones art on a another site without any premission and is highly disrespectful to do so and sometimes its the main reason why some artists watermark on their art so that someone else does not take and claim the art is theirs and even sometimes few people try to get rid of the watermark and are either successful or not successful but if they are successful they usually get caught in the end…
I know quite a few people that I do follow have had their art stolen,trased,etc and even one of my favourite people had their webcomic put entirely on another site in which someone notified them and they were not pleased…
All I ask is do not steal others art work and either claim it as yours or put it on another site without premission and to respect the artist decisions and requests…
… So uh, someone wanna help me to take this down?
These are commissions/request done from @jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear’s character, and knowing someone taking away someone’s hard work and paid work just for their fun isn’t okay.
Please reblog, or try to report these if you can.