Fed up of my design work being stolen

JadesGraphics

JadesGraphics

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Hey everyone,

unfortunately I've had an awful week so far and just wanted to sort of talk about it in a thread, this week I've had two separate individuals steal and claim my design work.

The first instance was someone had re-uploaded one of my speedart videos and posted it on their YouTube account this one was fairly easy to sort of solve I sent a copyright claim promptly to YouTube and the video was taken down.

The second instance was today which is still currently ongoing, one of my Twitter followers (who I'm very grateful for) gave me the heads up of someone stealing my work, they promptly deleted their twitter status's which included my work once I tweeted to them which sounds like good news but unfortunately they still have it in on their Behance portfolio. This is where they originally stole it from on my own Behance page. I've sent a DCMA notice which Behance will hopefully look into and fingers crossed will take down but for the mean time this person is presenting this portfolio to current and future customers with my work and well I guess I just feel a bit "deflated" (if that makes any sense) about the whole situation.

Sorry for the sort of rant, it's just I take so much pride in my work and put so much time into that to see someone gain from it is a bit disheartening, thanks for reading this super long winded post!
 
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anyway to watermark your stuff? In the corner? Anything?[DOUBLEPOST=1456282784,1456282723][/DOUBLEPOST]
Painter said:
I have a Speed Art channel as well. I always plaster my channel name in bold letters that overlap onto my images online and in my videos. I do that so people will recognize my name and to protect my work from theft.
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I have a Speed Art channel as well. I always plaster my channel name in bold letters that overlap onto my images online and in my videos. I do that so people will recognize my name and to protect my work from theft.
 
If he lists your work on his portfolio and gets work while it is there I'd definitely try to pursue monetary compensation.
 
Painter said:
I have a Speed Art channel as well. I always plaster my channel name in bold letters that overlap onto my images online and in my videos. I do that so people will recognize my name and to protect my work from theft.
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I do that also with my videos, there is only one that doesn't have this which was the one that was re-uploaded, the rest do. The images in my behance are not watermarked I didn't really think properly I guess. I'm going to add a tiny but still visible watermark in the corner from now on.

BecomeAPrime said:
If he lists your work on his portfolio and gets work while it is there I'd definitely try to pursue monetary compensation.
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I'm going to look into it, he was with an esports organization who I emailed and informed them and he has now been dropped. He has someone else's copyrighted work on his Behance page who I'm contacting as well. I just hope Behance do take action and remove it, I sent of all sufficient evidence so I just have to wait for them now.
 
All watermarks do is add an extra step for the thief to jump through... if they don't have the skill they wont even try.. that or they will take it and display the watermark with it like an idiot haha!

For someone like me who has polished their skills over a decade I could remove almost any watermark from any image... but when you get the skill to do that you usually don't want or need anyone else's work hahaha.
 
BecomeAPrime said:
All watermarks do is add an extra step for the thief to jump through... if they don't have the skill they wont even try.. that or they will take it and display the watermark with it like an idiot haha!

For someone like me who has polished their skills over a decade I could remove almost any watermark from any image... but when you get the skill to do that you usually don't want or need anyone else's work hahaha.
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Which is why people do watermarks. If you have the ability to remove watermarks in a way that is faster than just making your own work (which isn't always an easy thing to do, let's be a little more honest here), then you won't be scamming other people's work anyway as you said.

If they are stupid enough to leave the watermark, then again, you answered the question on why people use them to start with. There's absolute proof at that point, of the stolen work.
 
JadesGraphics said:
Success! The project has been removed from his Behance page. I'm going to keep a close eye on his page though as he still has another project which is stolen from some one else.

Thanks for all the replies, I feel some what relived now :)
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Great news! Just make sure you make it hard for him to steal your work in the future.
 
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