This group is for art theft awareness. Feel free to submit your Anti-Art Theft works to the correct folders. Limit currently is 5/day. Subject to change as group gets bigger. All submissions must be good quality. Submissions must be submitted to the correct folders. All types are accepted, but must be anti-art theft related. All work must be your own. No violent, harassing, or demeaning work will be permitted. No trolling, spamming, or asshattery allowed. Treat everyone with the same respect you would wish to receive. (This includes comments left to the art thieves.) If you are caught harassing anyone, members, art thieves, or admins you will be banned. I don't want these people to have the 's and ect on work that is not theirs. This group is not to attack them. Only to expose them and report them. This way by depriving them of the attention they seek, they will quit posting work that is not theirs, or leave our community altogether. They seek attention, so don't give it to them. This group is to let our community know about current Art Thieves. In order to be accused as an Art Thief there must be ample proof provided to support your claims. What should I do if I know someone is an Art Thief? --------> Report them, and silently leave. It has occurred to me that these people seek attention, either positive or negative. Don't antagonize them or feed their feeling of receiving attention from you. Send us a "Claim of Theft" in a note and provide your evidence. How do I submit a claim of proof of Art Theft? --------> Send us a note along with proof. Comments containing any potential thief will be hidden. People will only be "outted" as an Art thief when ample evidence is provided, and reviewed. UPDATE: As per new rules we will no longer be listing profiles. We will only post the offending deviations themselves along with the link to the original deviation/copyrighted image. Proof must be traced back to either the original artist or proven to be directly from a show etc. Anyone can post anything on photobucket so it's not exactly valid proof (unless there is an artist signature!)---- we want to see proof like original editorial or news articles in the case of celeb photos, stock photo sites that list the original photographers/copyrights, original artist flickr accounts, art/wallpaper sales sites, deviant art postings etc. What can be used as proof of theft? --------> Anything that can be provided with a link that shows the work belongs to someone else. Thanks for joining and with your help we can make Deviantart a better community for us all. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I am also currently looking for admins to help in going over evidence and posting blogs. Thanks Panda |