Art theft
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[edit] Intro
Art theft is a common, and rampant form of plagiarism. It incites an overwhelming amount of lulzy drama, ED quality drama; hence why this page exists (lucky you).
So, who are these art thieves, why are they in my internet and how do I butthurt them? Anybody can be one of these weasels: Your mom, sister, teacher, dog and of course, any and all of your so-called "Friends" online.
[edit] What kind of people are art thieves?
- The Italians(no signatures so it's fair game)
- Polish kids (because they are poor)
- French role players
- 12 year old girls
- Todd Goldman
- You(you know who you are!)
The typical art thief is either as smart as a rock, a troll, or have some vendetta against people that have more talent than they do, so they upstage or revenge on them by taking their art.
[edit] Where do I find one?
DA is the most common breeding ground where many illiterate art thieves breed. It is a proven fact they rove in packs. If one person is a thief, there is a 70% chance their few friends are too. It is also hereditary, as art thieves will have thief siblings and if they can manage to find someone willing to share their filthy genome, thief children as well.
[edit] Species of art thieves
- Photobucketer
- Tracer
- Airbrusher
- Recolorist
- Ripper
- Copier
- Photo manipulator
- Outright retards
- Slide show makers
- Profiter
- Retards
The Photobucket kid uses DA as a photobucket. They also cannot get their grubby hands off of other people's artwork for their gayass MySpace page.
The Tracer traces shit. DA now allows anime and Disney screen captures to be traced, air brushing over photos and other work is the bastard child of the re-colorer and tracer.
The Ripper takes things they never made at all and lies their ass off about it.
The Copier copies work and never gives credit, then throws a pissyfit when found out, leaving claim that the original artist ripped them off, even if said work is 4 years older than theirs.
A re-colorist colors other's work without permission. This goes for photos to, which often are renamed "traditional media". They also take animation stills and create "OC's" with them.
Photo manipulators often don't realize royalty-free means you need to pay for those images, they also cite Google as the bona-fide copyright holder to anything on G.I.S. (but when you find their stuff shit hits the fan) If its not google, then Flickr or Photobucket created the photos. Not, you know, a human with a camera. These people will often slap crappy filters onto photos,like the re-colorist, they believe this makes the work anything but a photo manipulation.
Slide show makers take purddy pictures and put it to crappy pop music.
As for outright retards, they upload famous work and expect people to believe them, its just unfortunate that they do believe so and ripped artwork gets 200,000 faves and a daily deviation.
Profiters, they are the worst! not only do they rip, trace, smudge and smear but they make a nice ammount of money off of it (see Mr.Goldman) Unfortunately if they live in China or some gayass place, you'll never see a dime for use of your work and fighting is futile.
[edit] How to find an art thief
Word on the street is that the one way to identify a thief are these common attributes:
- Style is inconsistent
- Quality of work is inconstant, new works suck and old work is fantastic
- Unnatural growth of skill (professional anime from stick figures last week)
- Drama whoring
- Whining for attention
- Illogical miscats
[edit] excuses
The most common excuses of these shitheads are
- Its not mine, my sister/mom/cat/boyfriend/cousin did it
- I didn't know
- I have permission from National Graphic/Disney/God to use it
- I found it on google and cannot find the original creator
- I found it on photobucket so its public domain
- I have ADHD!!
[edit] Retaliation!
Art thieves never like being found out, They piss and moan, cry and whine and make death threats and rants on how unfair it was that their riped art got removed. One of the funniest things to come from them is the fact that, without a doubt the only reason to remove someone's work is "Because you are jealous of their/my talent", other than that, the vultures are playground bullies waiting to make some 12 yr old cry for ripping Yoshitaka Amano's work. Of course, if you praise them the'll be eternally thankful. Most are dumb enough to believe their traces/rips/whatever are 'great talent'.
[edit] OMFG what do I do?
So they got your art, eh? Or they robbed your friend? Or do you think you can copyright a pose? Or "green on a dog"? Well sorry pal, but that doesn't count. The only way you'll get anything done is with a good old layover.
So now that you have a pack of witch hunters after your blood for reporting their stolen crap, have fun reporting their death threats to the Mod box of DA. If its not a DeviantArt issue a nice lawyer, Crowbar or M-16 can suffice.
Hang around Live Journal's "art_theft" community for many fun adventures with these guys, but remember "play nice".
But really, good luck. Deviant art has been pretty retarded about this the past few years.
[edit] Misadventures of art theft
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 Yes, because Erin Hunter is a real person and draws cats |
 All that matters is that someone liked it |
 The guys at Capcom would be so proud |
 They want what? |
 Hyena is a better term. |
 Lions and tiger and recolor oh my. |
 And again and again |
 Uhnn... no comment |
 No dice, pal |
 It's so hard to steal! |
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 Obey the law |
 Talent |
 She worked hard, people! |
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 You know nothing! |
 'Nuff said |
 She has commissions also! |
 How dare they |
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 Don't like, don't look |
 nightrunner42, flaunting her skill again |
[edit] See also
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