stolen art / how to find out about and Bots

Aug 7, 201023 min read

Deviation Actions

Published: Aug 7, 2010

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I think we artist need to look out for each other and inform each other when art gets stolen....so here are some information on this subject..

so whenever you see an artpiece somewhere and you believe you've seen it before you find in this article a link to a side to reverse search images. - that way you also find the original owners (not always, but sometimes)

I had it as a journal entry last week but because people recommended to post it as news feature too - here you go...please fav it so more people get aware of...

my gold dust photograph been stolen recently

. Because of that i found this site which is offering wallpapers and if you look through the gallery, you notice MANY deviants whos art been stolen.
this girl www.zedge.net/profile/szajbi/ stole even her profile photo from ValentinaKallias

and removed her signature (by now it's reported and removed). she stole also other art from many other artists. here are a few of them she stole art from who i noticed immediately when i looked through her gallery:

despair

:devlemonsatethelimes

Sigurd-Quast

Camiloo

Healzo

I contacted the site and reported her. I also contacted all the other artists i noticed. I think as more people bring this to their attention the more likely they need to become active on this. here is the site to contact them: www.zedge.net/contact/

because of all this another really amazing page came quiet in handy for me:
www.tineye.com/
another page which is reverse searching images: www.gazopa.com/
and hopefully will be a help for you too.
It reverse search images! even when they are croped, or changed, manipulated etc. When you rightclick on an image, open it in a new window, copy the url and paste it in there it surches the internet for that specific piece. the system needs some time to list all pieces. (seems like even a little more than a month! - so it also takes that long to find pieces that's been stolen from you.) but when you have an artpiece quiet some time on the internet it probably is quiet interesting.

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Besite this i was really annoyed this week by bots which added me to their watch list and who i've seen in almost every other watcherslist. I never used to block anyone but since this week my block list became much bigger. watch out for:

akoye
CawkBlawk
Chaozimiya
Ioulaum
Ryumuza
ShitInMyClit

the owner of at least two of those is Chaos21 on Cawkblawks profile he writes as Cawkblawk that he is only testing a script for his friend Chaozimiya. which is a completely lie! Chaozimiya is a bot just as CawkBlawk. The owner admited in a newsblog which tries to bring this problem to the attention of deviantart that both accounts are from him. And he explained to me that he lied saying it would be a favour for his friend Chaozimiya because he wasn't sure if this is illegal. Showes he doesn't care if he is doing something illegal. He tries to hide behind it. He even admits on his own page, that he has right now 53 bot accounts!!! (and some are might used for chatrooms)

Here the newsjournal which is quiet interesting if you haven't read it yet: news.deviantart.com/article/12…

I think it's a bad thing when those bots become more and more. It gives people the feeling that actually noone cares about their art aside bots (who watch em) - and for those you don't need to be on deviantart since they are not really interested in art

and not being on deviantart at least safes you from people copying , editing, croping, reposting, using etc your images. (ok - you probably hear that i'm still a little pissed)

This was a lot to read

So here some eye candy since I think it's still an artsite and so i wanna share some awesome art and artists with you:

looking at this makes me always happy: