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About Tumblr and a Recent Art Theft

Recently I had an incident where a notorious dragon art thief snatched some of my work and re-posted it without credit. Luckily I tend to paste a watermark over all my art and use the creative commons license on DA. So it was easy for people to track the art back to me and inform me it was stolen.

The irritating part was that I had to fill out take down requests on three different websites because this person was posting my work in several places. Tumblr ended up being one of the places.

So far the only website that has diligently processed the take-down request and honored it is Tumblr. They were on the ball, and got back to me the very next day. The art has been taken down, and I appreciate the quick action. Thank you so much Tumblr.

That aside, I urge my fellow artists to make use of watermarks. Big ones, ones that don’t just include names but urls back to where you originally posted the art. Watermarks should NOT be discouraged. If someone complains about a watermark on your art it is because they don’t see the value in the art piece. They want to view it, or use it, or what have you, and they don’t want the watermark there. If anyone respected You and Your art they would also respect your watermark. And if they want the art with out a big fat watermark then they should Pay for it. Because your art is worth something, no matter how crappy you might think it is.