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11/04/2007 06:03:33 PM · #1
I've been posting my work online since 2002 and today was the first time I discovered someone else pretending my work was their's.

I'm way more upset about this than I should be. I mean, it's just a photo on a site that I haven't actually frequented in years and it's not like the clown made money off it. But I'm still kind of... unnerved by this.

I reported the copyright violation. The idiot stole the photo from my deviantart website and then made a crappy edit and reposted it as his. My deviantart page has an upload date of 2004, his is 2007, so it's really no contest (plus I have the original file saved.) It will likely be swiftly dealt with.

My version - lesbian undertones, so don't click if you're offended

His crappy edit

I am resisting the urge to write a very strongly worded email to the jerk.

I'm betting a lot of people on this site have had images stolen. Anybody want to share?

11/04/2007 06:12:46 PM · #2
Yeah, that *is* a crappy edit. He really screwed up the contrast. And what makes it worse is that he actually has more views than you on that shot. :-/

Seems the quickest way to have it taken down is email violations@deviantART.com
11/04/2007 06:16:18 PM · #3
That sucks and his edit is for $h!t. Yours rocks and HE WILL PAY go get him and smoke him out of his hole, for he must be a rat to steal an image from someone and call it his own.

Best of luck with the weeine roast.

MAX!
11/04/2007 06:44:07 PM · #4
I think he has more views because he actually uses the word "lesbian" in the title. More salacious, more hits. I shot it as a tribute to Veronique Vial's Women Before 10AM, not so much as a "ooooh, look, lesbians!" sort of thing.

I've reported it to deviantart, with evidence.
11/04/2007 06:48:49 PM · #5
Yup, someone stole this image:



from me... cropped out the border and passed it off as hers. Luckily, it was posted on Flickr and they took it down just 12 hours after I reported her. FWIW, she had a LOT of DPCers photos.

Wouldn't have upset me, but that is my daughter! Kids are taboo ya know?

His edit SUCKS and your original photo is rockin!!
11/04/2007 06:54:12 PM · #6
Oh yeah, plug "mozingo" into the DPC forums search engine and you'll see everything a bunch of us went through over stolen photos. The thief ended up faking her death (very badly), and from what I hear hasn't stopped.
11/04/2007 08:55:56 PM · #7
Ugh, the mozingo situation sounds really annoying. And strange. Faked her own death?

TCGuru- thanks for the compliment! I agree, it's really low to steal a photo of someone's kid. There was a faker on livejournal who stole hundreds of photos from a father's website and pretended they were her own kid for years. Not cool. How did you find out that that photo had been stolen?

11/04/2007 09:00:34 PM · #8
Since the Thief is posting it in Deviantart also, it should be easy to have Deviantart to deal with this copyright violation. Just email the webmaster and they'll have it removed pronto.
11/04/2007 09:21:36 PM · #9
Originally posted by zxaar:

how does it feel to steal other's work. And you know what is the shame, you took a wonderful picture and made crap out of it. Man you suck even at stealing.


This is the comment i left to this jerk.
11/04/2007 11:09:20 PM · #10
Originally posted by literaryradical:

Ugh, the mozingo situation sounds really annoying. And strange. Faked her own death?

TCGuru- thanks for the compliment! I agree, it's really low to steal a photo of someone's kid. There was a faker on livejournal who stole hundreds of photos from a father's website and pretended they were her own kid for years. Not cool. How did you find out that that photo had been stolen?


Someone alerted IreneM when they recognized one of hers, and Irene vented here in the forums. As typically happens around here, everyone combed through the rest of her site to see if we recognized anything else, and there were several of us who found our work in her portfolios all over the web. She was very easy to Google and had similar profiles on about a dozen other sites. The community here tends to be very alert and protective of its members, so I'd seen this happen quite a few times before, but it was the first time it happened to one of mine, and of course I had to get the one who was all out psycho with the fake death. I got angry email from her fans about how I obviously contributed to the stress that undoubtedly sped along her end by cancer, clearly I killed the woman, right? The whole thing is stupid and frustrating because it wasn't just theft, but lies upon excuses upon lies until she finally "died". Now her "husband" is "continuing on in her memory", but it looks like she's at least learned to steer clear of DPC.

Message edited by author 2007-11-04 23:10:10.
11/04/2007 11:49:49 PM · #11
You are asking for trouble if you post a high res image anywhere online...
11/05/2007 09:45:07 AM · #12
Originally posted by literaryradical:

Ugh, the mozingo situation sounds really annoying. And strange. Faked her own death?

TCGuru- thanks for the compliment! I agree, it's really low to steal a photo of someone's kid. There was a faker on livejournal who stole hundreds of photos from a father's website and pretended they were her own kid for years. Not cool. How did you find out that that photo had been stolen?


Someone here posted that there were a LOT of DPCers photographs on that site... lo and behold, there was my princess! :-/
11/05/2007 10:01:25 AM · #13
Originally posted by jmsetzler:

You are asking for trouble if you post a high res image anywhere online...

As much as it sucks, this is the sad truth.

I had an image of mine stolen, but I don't really care because in the long run, nobody's going to benefit from it, and the image is out there enough that if anyone Googles it because they're intrigued by it, it'll take about a milisecond for them to realize that all my image showed up on my sites WAAAAAAAY before his/hers did.

Actually, since it's kind of a political statement that I'm fond of, I don't care how it gets air time.

The friend that caught it in particular was more outraged than I was.

I'm pretty much of the opinion that if I ever have an image that I seriously do not want stolen, it will not go up on any website.

Message edited by author 2007-11-05 10:03:04.
11/05/2007 10:10:28 AM · #14
Originally posted by Rebecca:

Originally posted by literaryradical:

Ugh, the mozingo situation sounds really annoying. And strange. Faked her own death?

TCGuru- thanks for the compliment! I agree, it's really low to steal a photo of someone's kid. There was a faker on livejournal who stole hundreds of photos from a father's website and pretended they were her own kid for years. Not cool. How did you find out that that photo had been stolen?


Someone alerted IreneM when they recognized one of hers, and Irene vented here in the forums. As typically happens around here, everyone combed through the rest of her site to see if we recognized anything else, and there were several of us who found our work in her portfolios all over the web. She was very easy to Google and had similar profiles on about a dozen other sites. The community here tends to be very alert and protective of its members, so I'd seen this happen quite a few times before, but it was the first time it happened to one of mine, and of course I had to get the one who was all out psycho with the fake death. I got angry email from her fans about how I obviously contributed to the stress that undoubtedly sped along her end by cancer, clearly I killed the woman, right? The whole thing is stupid and frustrating because it wasn't just theft, but lies upon excuses upon lies until she finally "died". Now her "husband" is "continuing on in her memory", but it looks like she's at least learned to steer clear of DPC.


Sounds like fun was had by all.
11/05/2007 10:43:50 AM · #15
Originally posted by jmsetzler:

You are asking for trouble if you post a high res image anywhere online...


That would depend of course, on why you posted the high-res image. You may have posted it on Flickr to attract the interest of someone who would want more of your high-res images. In which case you'd probably not give them said images unless money was received. You might also only post them after you have properly registered your copywrite on them. Then lie back and wait for unsuspecting, hopefully very wealthy thieves to steal them.
:)
11/05/2007 11:06:02 AM · #16
Originally posted by jmsetzler:

You are asking for trouble if you post a high res image anywhere online...


Yeah. I've learned that lesson. I was quite a bit more naive when I was posting to deviantart several years ago. Now all my images are low-res and sized for web. After this mess is resolved I'm going to just take down the deviantart webpage. It hasn't been useful since I got out of my emo-kid photographer days.
11/08/2007 09:47:11 AM · #17
Originally posted by Spazmo99:

Originally posted by Rebecca:

Originally posted by literaryradical:

Ugh, the mozingo situation sounds really annoying. And strange. Faked her own death?

TCGuru- thanks for the compliment! I agree, it's really low to steal a photo of someone's kid. There was a faker on livejournal who stole hundreds of photos from a father's website and pretended they were her own kid for years. Not cool. How did you find out that that photo had been stolen?


Someone alerted IreneM when they recognized one of hers, and Irene vented here in the forums. As typically happens around here, everyone combed through the rest of her site to see if we recognized anything else, and there were several of us who found our work in her portfolios all over the web. She was very easy to Google and had similar profiles on about a dozen other sites. The community here tends to be very alert and protective of its members, so I'd seen this happen quite a few times before, but it was the first time it happened to one of mine, and of course I had to get the one who was all out psycho with the fake death. I got angry email from her fans about how I obviously contributed to the stress that undoubtedly sped along her end by cancer, clearly I killed the woman, right? The whole thing is stupid and frustrating because it wasn't just theft, but lies upon excuses upon lies until she finally "died". Now her "husband" is "continuing on in her memory", but it looks like she's at least learned to steer clear of DPC.


Sounds like fun was had by all.


Yeah, and the fun goes on... Got a mail this morning asking me if this

//www.flickr.com/photos/ratbastard/1663394152/

is mine.

I can't see it because I'm not a registered member of flickr. I'll register tonight when I get home from work and check if it's mine.... Grrrrr...
The username (ratbastard) is unusual, to say the least ;-))
11/08/2007 10:04:16 AM · #18
If you take crappy photos like mine, nobody wants to steal them. There is a lesson to be learned there, I think.

:)
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