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WHO WE ARE:

We are the legion of doom:

1)We CRUSH art theft!

2)We support artists who's art has been stolen.

3)We fight for artist rights!

4)We help YOU defeat art theft.

5)We show off various cases of art theft and write stories of its resolution.

6)Educate DA world about art thievery


If your work has been stolen by someone on DA:
click the "report violation" button, beneath the stolen artwork. Deviantart admins will take care of it.

If your work has been stolen externally from DA, contact us via a note and seek advice.

If you're an original artist and your work has been taken, and you wish to share your story with others, send us a note!
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FAQ:

How to search if your work has been stolen by someone or what to use to find the original source of an edited image?
Use tineye.com: www.tineye.com/

There are also the options of SauceNAO saucenao.com/
or IQDB iqdb.org/ which may find things that Tinyeye can't.

How to get help from this group if your work has been stolen? How to expose art theft?
Send this group a note and write your story!
Make sure to include a link to original work.



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ART THIEVERY:

It must not be prevented, it must be punished!

"Preventing" art thievery is a foolish endeavour:

1)Watermarks ruin images

2)Disabling right clicking makes wallpaper lovers cry

3)You're cheating yourself out of POTENTIAL INCOME!
It's incredibly EASY to win cases of "artist vs art thieves" if they're in 1st world countries and if they've made profit off your art.
In most cases the artists win settlements in thousands of dollars without EVER going to court.


COMMANDMENTS:
1)I will not "prevent" art thievery
2)I will laugh at art thieves, not be angry/afraid of them
3)I will fight art thieves, win money and buy cake.

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HOW TO REPORT ART THIEVES on Deviantart only:
FAQ #155: How do I report a deviation which I think breaks the rules?

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FAQ to educate art thieves with:

Generic?
FAQ #8: What are violations of the DeviantArt copyright policy?

Someone editing other people's work?
FAQ #157: Can I use things created by other people in my submissions?

Tracers?:
FAQ #304: Do you remove copies and trace-over art?

Screenshots as fanart?:
FAQ #572: What does DeviantArt consider "Fan Art" to be?
FAQ #578: What does DeviantArt consider to be a proper desktop screenshot?

Crediting so it's a free for all?:
FAQ #306: Does "Crediting" let me use whatever I want?

Think it's fair use?:
FAQ #32: Fair Use and Your Submission

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...What the heck is copyright?*
*You'd better understand this before sending anything to the group, even a comment.

Deviants

Notice

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~ DON'T POST YOUR REPORTS ON THE COMMENTS SECTION ~

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COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LETTER

This letter is your MAIN WEAPON against ART THEFT!


If anyone ever steals YOUR work, this is what you write to the thieves, be they an individual/magazine/website/newspaper/music band/etc.
Simply fill in the blanks and erase the stuff in the brackets.

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To: __________________(art thief's name/company)

It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted Work entitled "____________ (name of stolen artwork)" in the publishing of a ___________(your website/advert/newspaper/magazine)

I have reserved all rights in the Work, which was first published on _______________ (date) at _______________(my website link), with copyright registered to me.
The advert which appears in your __________ (website/magazine), is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis.

You neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for the advert, nor to make or distribute copies of it. Therefore, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 USC Section 101, et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $100,000.
Under the copyright law I demand:
Compensation and Immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies of it, and that you deliver to me all unused, undistributed copies of it, or destroy such copies immediately, and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future.

Also, I demand a compensation for the use of the image.
Your company did not notify me, we did not sign any contracts, and I have not been paid for the use of my work.
If I have not received an affirmative response from you in two weeks, indicating that you are ready to discuss terms of payment for the use of my work and comply with my requirements, I shall consider taking the full legal remedies available to rectify this situation.

Sincerely,


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DISCLAIMER:

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DISCLAIMER:

Please be "polite" to the art thieves, even if you know they've taken stuff. Do NOT flame. Do NOT act like a mindless, angry, hate-mob.
Flaming will get you kicked from this group. We are not a mob, we are an organized machine to help artists fight art theft.
Some art thieves simply don't bother to read DA upload rules or know nothing of copyright law.
Fight art theft with the power of LOVE, LAW, and LOGIC.

1-inform the violator of the rules they're breaking, in a polite manner, like this for example:

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Dear {{__________}},
Please note that the image/deviation you have in your gallery is a copy/unlicensed edit of {{__________}} and is therefore a copyright violation. Because deviantart automatically writes "artwork (C) you" this means that you are taking the original artist's image rights, without permission.
DeviantART policies on copyright violation are FAQ #8: What are violations of the DeviantArt copyright policy?.

I'm sure that the original artist would appreciate it if you credited for their hard work/asked their permission on whether you are allowed to use/repost their work.

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2-Report the deviation using the "report violation" button, ONLY if you're the first person to catch the thief.

3-if you suspect that the art thief has a ton of violations, send a report to this group in the form of a NOTE
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ALL COMMENTS ABOUT "SUSPECTED" ART THIEVES WILL BE HIDDEN.
(per request of DA administration)
PLEASE REPORT ART THIEVES IN THE FORM OF A NOTE TO THE GROUP!

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DR-35 Featured By Owner Nov 15, 2023  Hobbyist General Artist
Y'all not doing anything about all this ai "art"?
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:iconwhysterrnart:
whysterrnart Featured By Owner Feb 20, 2023  Hobbyist Digital Artist
a deviant called Kiritost has been tracing official pokemon Artworks and is using one of my OCs without permission.

Proof Journal: Kiritost is an Art tracer and character thief.
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I056I0 Featured By Owner Nov 2, 2022
It seems that they don't have copyright. because this image is copyrighted by Birne.

twitter.com/birne_illust/statu…

I am not very good at English, so I apologize in advance.
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KappeeArts Featured By Owner Oct 30, 2022  Hobbyist Digital Artist
found a thief and want to spread the word. They actively edit out peoples signatures and watermarks and run the work through ai generators. Then claim the art as their own 

@ / b166eragentsmith   <- 

Evidence here: A case of art theft [ALERT]
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corynmv Featured By Owner Jul 4, 2022  Professional Writer
ART THIEF on GRENDIZER by Facebook arabic group.Beware of art thieves raging on FACEBOOK and particularly a group who steal art here to modify it, redraw it and put their signature on it. They steal all the art and never credit the authors.Especially several of their administrators have fun doing that and in particular her and she does not hesitate to say it in her language Arabic.They block anyone who comments, the outcasts of the group, because they know they are guilty.They are the greatest thieves on the UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER series.Beware if you draw this series, they scrutinize the smallest drawings here.I wanted to say it on this great global platform for art and artists.They stole several drawings from me and even commissions totally transforming the original drawing and I'm not the only one here, some may say.They also put the drawings on Instagram and don't mind and even brag about it.,The thief even tells her group that they can redo the drawing, and it's not the first time.,,,THE FACEBOOK GROUP THIEF art on UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER.,The lady who steals the arts without crediting them, modifies my drawings and affixes her signature to them.,Here is a drawing that I paid for an artist from DEVIANART who was made at my request about ten years ago. She allowed herself to modify it by stealing the model from my facebook page dedicated to my novel.,ORIGINAL by calamitylynn https://www.deviantart.com/calamitylynn, commission pay by me. It says on the drawing that this should not be taken, but she is unscrupulous.I could give lots of examples, but that would make me more angry, because she is doing it for a friend who is here from whom she is also stealing commissions. She's blocking us from her group, but we have the evidence.Be careful if you draw this Ufo robot Grendizer series.UNRABIC GROUP FACEBOOK THIEF art and commissions on serial Ufo Robot Grendizer.
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MachineGirl-dA Featured By Owner Nov 29, 2021  Hobbyist General Artist
is this an active group??? i'm having trouble with some accounts reposted without permission.
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HatsukiOwil Featured By Owner Oct 25, 2021  Student Digital Artist
Adopt (OPEN) by HatsukiOwil   Adopt (OPEN) by HatsukiOwil  
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