Art Theft Alert!

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!! Things we accept: art theft, tracing, plagiarism. Submit here

[marissaofunderground]

Do NOT follow this Amino. I repeat, DO NOT FOLLOW THIS AMINO! This Amino is run by art thieves, and many Amino users do not understand that it is not enough to just say “this art is not mine” or “all credit to the original artist”. That’s STILL plagiarism, you need to CORRECTLY credit the artist. Not only that, but our artwork is copyrighted material, even if it is fan art. We drew it, so we own it. And you cannot share it without express permission from the creator. Artists need to know what you are doing with their art. Sure, I may be more “it depends on the situation but otherwise just credit me properly and you’re good to go” with solely my own art, but I won’t stand for this. This person who runs the Amino could care less about copyright infringement, and so much of the work of other artists has been stolen and posted here. Including OCs. 

Even MY OC is being used as an avatar over there!!

MY OC, BECKY! BEING USED BY THIS LEADER! Sure, this is @hyperchronic’s art, who I commissioned to draw her, but STILL! This is as close as it’s ever gotten to my art being stolen. (I’m not skilled or popular enough for that to happen to me).

Artwork from several artists in the MSA fandom are victims of this crime, including @thepurpah, @hyperchronic, @bechnokid, and @yuramec. To make it worse, our OCs are being stolen and reposted, being called “female Lewis” or “ghost!Vivi”. They are NOT, they are OUR OCs. And the people in this Amino are not authorized to use them without express permission of the creator. 

Sure, if you’re an artist, drawing our OCs should be fine, as long as you credit us and show us, because we always love seeing other people draw our characters! Most of us do anyway, I know I sure do. :3 But anyway, I am getting off topic.

If you use the Amino app, please report it. Find the Amino that I have posted in the top image that is circled in white, and do what you can to report this community.

And if you want to join or be a part of an MSA Amino, join @dryeguy‘s! He started a better, safer MSA amino that is content creator friendly. Be a part of that one instead. :)

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retracer

This girl has retraced off of another artists the sad part is the real artists passed away, this girl thinks it’s ok for her to retrace off of a artists even thou she found out about the death, she thinks the fan-art that artists did was the official art from the game which is not true.

http://paumeo.deviantart.com/art/Sweet-dream-Inktober-2016-641001836 (retraced.)

real artists is http://konnayasha.deviantart.com/

https://fr.pinterest.com/pin/292452569525337799/

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Claire-d-trash blatantly stole Ollizers' art.

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Ok so ive dealt with this theif before but she's started tracing other peoples art again Her url is crimsonas-fandoms-are-life.tumblr.com, last time people confronted her she faked a depressive episode while she deleted all the works that had been traced from other artists. She also seems to be ignoring my evidence to her theft. The first picture (Lewis of Mystery Skulls Animated) was originally produced by http://lvcillustrations.deviantart.com/art/Mystery-Skulls-Lewis-the-Skeleton-493665370 and as you can see in the overlay it is literally line for line. The second picture was originally produced at voidorgy.tumblr.com by Mod Hippie, and as you can see that one is line for line too, with what looks like an attempt to make a few differences. Most of their other art looks like its traced from stock photos too, and i dont understand why this person traces because if they just worked at their own style it could turn out really cute and unique

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ErzaScarlet8, now going by Erza Farron, who has also used names like Sasuke Scarlet, Erza D Scarlet, and many others, continues to trace and copy. since getting a graphics tablet she’s been using that to trace. sometimes tracing straight out, sometimes stretching or squishing the image or images she traces from before tracing them. 

she also has straight up admitted to tracing on one of the accounts she’s shared art on

Par le commencement, en traçant la tête au début, puis plus tard, j'ai commencer par tracer le corps et maintenant depuis peu, j'ai commençais à faire mes personnages préféré en tentant de combiner avec d'autres tenue. 

translated: For the beginning, tracing head at first, then later, I begin by tracing the body now and recently I started doing my favorite characters trying to combine with other clothes. 

meanwhile she still continues to insist she’s not plagiarizing and harassing people who try to tell her she shouldn’t do that. all these recent examples are traced from official art, but she has traced/copied fanart in the past as well. also, her favorite way to harass people who try to get her not to plagiarize is to find artwork with a vague resemblance to something they’ve drawn and accuse them of plagiarizing as well.

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ErzaScarlet8′s post about planning to draw Erza and Eileen (note that none of the fanart in her examples is cited): http://erza-farron-okumura.tumblr.com/post/144508120474/bonjour-%C3%A0-tous-mon-prochain-oeuvre-sera-erza-et http://archive.is/E8jIy/image

traced art:  http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=57184373 http://archive.is/RMJEv

source: http://www.mangahappy.com/manga/Fairy_Tail/486/14 http://www.mangahappy.com/manga/Fairy_Tail/482/18

traced chocobo art: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=56502614 http://archive.is/fUqH5 http://erza-farron-okumura.tumblr.com/post/143287715044/jai-corrig%C3%A9-am%C3%A9lior%C3%A9-remplac%C3%A9-et-supprim%C3%A9 http://archive.is/WmO6a/image http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19775528/

source: cdnau.idigitaltimes.com/sites/au.idigitaltimes.com/files/styles/large/public/2015/09/22/chocobo-ride.png

copied Erza art: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=54965449 http://archive.is/MlEn7 http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=54604874 http://archive.is/1GQua http://www.furaffinity.net/view/18749943/

source: http://lel-scan.me/lecture-fairy-tail/431/17 http://lel-scan.me/lecture-fairy-tail/431/19

final two images from: http://www.wysp.ws/erza-farron/ http://archive.is/ml3Yd

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Instagram user stealing art: shadow.skyler

Thief link: https://instagy.com/user/shadow.skyler

Real artist on Deviantart: litaone

Link to original art piece: http://litaone.deviantart.com/art/Sasusaku-Before-leaving-for-a-mission-545860979

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Callout Post for seiyakanie/taylordraws/nessaandoliver from the Miraculous Ladybug Fandom

seiyakanie (aka taylordraws and nessaandoliver) traced over this piece of Mikorin Mikoshiba from the Gekkan Shoujo Official Fanbook:

To create this piece of her original character, Oliver Messer:

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Though she has denied tracing by saying she referenced it instead:

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This comparison gif proves otherwise:

[Here is a link in case the gif's not working] [And here is the original artwork for reference] She is also selling her traced piece as a print on Society6:

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[link] I have personally sent her a message about this (albeit anonymously), since claiming that a traced piece is an original work is one thing, while using it for commercial purposes is another. She chose not to reply.

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bird paintings falsely claims as own work etsy

thief name:   Kalene Joi Muller, Colleen Miller, Colleen Joy Miller

artist names (etsy) : bycamilledesigns, carlascreatures

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210767441238441 https://www.etsy.com/shop/byCamilleDesigns?ref=condensed_trust_header_title_sold#shop-updates

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210737657373863 https://www.etsy.com/listing/246757129/african-grey-parrot-original-magnet-art https://www.etsy.com/listing/243699422/ooak-original-canvas-magnet-crow-raven

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elyjahartz  traced over Life-Writer's art more than once and denied it (they deleted the ask)

http://elyjahartz.tumblr.com/post/142380517780/i-love-how-this-turned-out-make-up-want-you-want

this was originally 

http://life-writer-ocs.tumblr.com/image/108409596045

the images over each other so you can see where it was traced and where they tried to improvise

http://postimg.org/image/gbih3ecuz/

(they didn't have the tag giving credit when first called out and added it later)

and a wip i downloaded before they deleted it 

http://postimg.org/image/3zk63nee3/

and the art they copied from

http://life-writer-ocs.tumblr.com/image/105294392885

then the two together (sorry its hard to see)

http://postimg.org/image/6i5v4c04b/

they've sense deleted this one and altered it 

another that wasn't traced but was extremely referenced and edited with no credit was given (i have a screenshot of the tags in case they decided to edit the tags to finally give credit)

http://elyjahartz.tumblr.com/post/142347291400/ellie-falls-over-elyjahartz-for-elentori-art

the original art

http://life-writer-ocs.tumblr.com/image/111146712590

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I'm blueberry_eclair on Instagram, my real name is Amma

And she @herfinaf1 on ig, her real name is herfina fitriyani, as you can see, has heavily referenced my drawing.. I have messaged her a few months ago to say "I can see you've heavily referenced my drawings, please credit me."

At first she denied it, but ended up deleting all of her heavily referenced drawings from me (about 6 drawings), then blocked me

But now she has posted some of them again (i have a side account then accidentally stubbled across her account), and actually drew a new heavily referenced drawing /again/..

Original :https://www.instagram.com/p/zH6kzakcpP/

Heavily referenced https://www.instagram.com/p/0zqn9Xn3Q1/Original https://www.instagram.com/p/yB1rR1Ecn_/

Heavily referenced https://www.instagram.com/p/_0qc2nH3Qg/

I know these are just sketches, but i put my feelings into them.. And drew them during my hard time in life, so at least i want her to respect them or sth..

[commonangel-deactivated20160807]

deviantart in a nutshell

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RE: The bloodybaroness post

It was a post that was submitted to us. After checking the sources, I meant to delete it but It looks like I accidentally published it instead. I apologize for the mistake and thank you to everyone who politely let us know that it was accidentally posted instead of deleted.

And just to add on, we did get a LOT of really, really rude messages about this. About half of the ~30 messages were incredibly passive aggressive or straight up rude. That’s not acceptable regardless of the situation. If you wish to let us know about a mistake, please do so politely instead of calling us names or insulting us.

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Erzascarlet8 made a new pixiv account in secret. this is at least her third pixiv account so far. it has on it some of her previously sourced plagiarized pieces, a digital version of something she's copied with physical media in the past, some stuff that hasn't been sourced yet but looks to have been frankencopied given the anatomy, artwork from the Japanese mobile game Fairy Tail Brave Guild, and some REALLY BAD edits of Erza's head edited onto official AION art.

the pixiv account: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=15010208

traced from chapter 470 of Fairy Tail: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=55264133

AION/Erza edits: - http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=51615816 - http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=51546357

[tsumimegami-deactivated20190707]

A situation came up, i was browsing the Jhin tag like i do on a daily basis and noticed a drawing looking INCREDIBLY familiar, It looked way too much like my own drawing which i’ve made a month ago, that surprised me very much, so i decided to go ask the user if they had used my art as reference with no ill intent, only to ask them to at least source, but they reacted like so, frantically denying ever copying and that ticked me off, had they not lied i would not be writing this but they did, and i am very mad that people would do this. I did not have any time to respond to their messages any further because i had to rush to school, as i was at school my friend ( @xluxifer ) notified me they had removed the picture, removing evidence they did this, but i don’t stand for ignoring this, art being stolen like this is unacceptable, they disabled their chat and now all i can do is this, please be wary. My original photoset: http://tsumimegami.tumblr.com/post/137662569755/uhdsfgsdfndsfbhs-i-cant-stop

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Art theft by Wolfcat165

Someone on Deviantart is trying to claim...Lauren Faust's sketches. Yes they are actually trying to pass off her art for their own. Links to theirs and the original.

Stolen: http://wolfcat165.deviantart.com/art/Sneaky-dash-592547996

Original: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/art/Sneaky-260222289

Stolen: http://wolfcat165.deviantart.com/art/dashieis-tired-592547685

Original: http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/art/Brooding-260222587

I'm also pretty sure the other images of their gallery are traces/recolors. Someone had already mentioned the theft but the messages were deleted. Best to just report the images.

[venrin]

Some nice people brought to my attention that this person posts things from Miraculous Ladybug fandom without credit. I decided to contact this person to ask them to either delete the works or add credit. This is how this conversation went :’D

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Gangster Sans trace/repost

http://dragongirlartist.tumblr.com/post/139021510673/sorry-im-bed-at-proproshins-i-fucking-love They’re stealing/reposting @ain0000 ’s Gangster Sans picture and not crediting the original artist.