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Reposted/Taken Artwork advice?

Write IdeaWrite Idea Posts: 316
edited December 2023 in The Commons

Recently, I've started to post my artwork within a fandom.  I am growing a bit of a following (nothing terribly large).  And this morning I got a notice that one of my pieces was reposted on someone else's page.  Now, I know this sort of thing happens all the time.  The person who reposted it didn't remove my watermark, but they didn't say that I made it or place any links to my socials.

Now, I didn't say on any of my pages for people not to repost my work, so I will take ownership of that.  I do have the option to file a DMCA.  I don't feel like the person stole it, because I didn't tell them not to repost it.  However, it feels like someone walked into my gallery, took a picture of my art, went across the street, and hung it up on their wall for people to look at.

Is filing a DMCA too aggressive?  Is asking they at least give me credit too much to do?  I hate watermarks, because it ruins the viewing experience, but it's important to have in situations like this.

edit: And it wasn't on the DAZ Gallery.

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Comments

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,755

    Doesn't matter if you didn't post that they could or could not repost it, they should know better and not ever do it. They definitely DID steal it. Did you let the person that stole it have it in public (call them out) so what everyone else there knows what they did? I would have.  I would contact the forum/.gallery admin first and see what they can do, then i would take a stronger action

  • sidsid Posts: 439

    I think sites like pintrest and tumblr make this hard. People just right click and save, forgetting where their inspro comes from and probably not even realising it's wrong.

    If it's posted to a site that allows comments and you're happy to have your work shared maybe you could say something like 'I'm glad you enjoyed my work, you can find more here...."

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054

    ..I've disabled downloads for my work.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    edited December 2023

    Write it off.

    If you are looking to make money from your art you will need to stop posting the work you want to hold in reserve. You post work instead that you don't care if it gets shared. At any rate, you'll need to be very productive and creative to earn a living at it. You'll need to be so productive that a few of even your good stuff getting shared won't be consequential to you as you can just make up something else quickly and easily enough in any case.

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,119

    I would email first and tell them you don't mind them using the image as long as they acknowledge your ownership with the post. I have done this in the past and it worked :)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,054

    ...indeed, diplomatically asking for proper attribution would be a good option as it does still bear your watermark 

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,131
    edited December 2023

    There used to be a watermark service that you embed a watermark in your images and for that subscription they spider your images as they get copied about on the web. There are a lot of startup businesses / pirate sites predicated on copying others work wholesale without any attribution so your images are likely elsewhere too.

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