@@BrendasArt ok but if you drew an amazing image of say a puppy and someone takes it and sells it on t-shirts, mugs, posters, ect and made millions of money on it you wouldnt be mad it it were me i would sue the hell out of them people really should do something about it there needs to be consequences for people actions
@@brooklynwright4017 ofcourse I would be mad and even sad as everything I make comes from my soul and have been a journey of growing and developing. if somebody else walks away with it, it's personal and will feel like that. but a law suit is expensive and most artists don't have that money so they skip going to court. it's even more complicated on social media as the law ends where the countries border ends. copy right law is world wide but it differs in details per region, per continent, per country and how to chase someone in a law suit who lives on the other side of the world? that's the problem in this. social media is toxic and a reason why I am not online much, not sharing much. only thing I can think if is posting all art wherever with something recognisable to own identity on it covering a piece of the painting that can't be fixed and mimicked with photoshop.
It’s like saying “If you didn’t want to get hit by a car, don’t walk outside.” Just because we are walking outside doesn’t make it any more okay to hit pedestrians with cars. Just because we post our art online doesn’t mean we want it to be stolen or that it is any more okay to do so.
It baffles me that people still don't understand basic copyright laws and the difference between being inspired by an artist and copying that artist's work. Or maybe they just don't care.
I still feel that most don't care. How hard is it to understand that they are stealing whwn they copy or use art of an artist without permission or giving credit?
A lot of times these are people that genuinely did not know that. But are now in the mind set that someone calling them out for it wants their business to die. The majority of people have had no connection to the art world beyond an art class in elementary. Most school in the 2000's- today have lost their entire art programs. And while yes they can find it online, they have to know first that there are rules. 2017 there was an art gallery that sold other peoples naked selfies for thousands of dollars and it was completely legal. Having artists cut a square of colored paper and glue it to another paper and sell it for thousands of dollars makes others feel like their aren't rules. Yes it sucks but some people literally just can't wrap their heads around it.
this one is the weirdest for me. even weirder seeing comments under the videos saying “amazing, keep up the good work!” as if the videos were all made by the youtube acc
Don’t even get me started on the awful people who steal ship art of ships they don’t personally like and “fix” it by defacing the persons art. People are getting too fucking bold
Probably semi-related, but this goes for Ship comics and their comic-dubs too. An artist who originally made the comic is known for drawing a particular ship (Let’s say it involves character A and B, a Boy/Girl ship). I later found out a comic dub of that same one. However, the dub artist were so surprisingly bold enough to change the dialogue that it brings up Ship A and C (Also a Boy/Girl ship). It actually started a comment war, because the Dub artist changed something that shouldn’t be changed. Turns out the Dub artist only likes ‘their’ particular ship. And will practically erase out anything that doesn’t involved their ship.
I’m sorry, I just do not understand how someone could steal someone else’s art and sell it on something like a sticker or t shirt. Like, I get that there are legal/moral grey areas (recently I spent a while researching/agonizing over if using a typeface as a reference for a painting was okay) but just flat out taking someone else’s work? I’d never have the nerve
I 100% understand that feeling, but I'd say references are OK because it's just reference. You aren't necessarily copying the essence of that artwork, just looking for a starting point. A lot of artists do this. I hope that makes sense.
A *ton* of people don't understand copyright at all. They don't understand that the artwork is copyrighted to the artist at the moment of creation, and honestly think if it's published on the internet, it's copyright-free and free for the taking. It's no excuse, and getting all hissy about being called out on it is ridiculous. They're still breaking the law, and if you're stealing, stop stealing - no ifs, ands or buts about it. I'm just pointing out that a lot of people have gross misunderstandings about how this all works.
@@AlexisJoy006 using reference is a different beast. Most artists use reference and, depending on the likeness, will credit the reference. This is more about copy and paste level art and intellectual property theft.
I found that a lot of people think selling fan art of copyrighted material is totally legal (which is not, that's why a lot of artists lost everything when the company decided to take legal actions against them). So I'm not surprised that there are people who consider it quite acceptable to steal from other artists.
Kinda amazes me that 20 years of user-generated content internet and nothing's really changed, just the services that people use. Had massive Deviantart flashbacks listening to this. Also do think it's about time basic copyright 101 is taught in schools in the computer literacy classes.
Oh please, let this be a thing. I remember having to go on deep-dive to understand copyright for collage back in the 2000s, because I had no clue how any of it worked. And it made my eyes cross. I walked away saying "Ok, look up Creative Commons, check angel policies and stick to pre-1923 images and you're pretty safe for the next decade or so. Thanks Disney." Granted, we didn't have the same resources back then - I mean, today there's no excuse if you actually care to do things legally. But still, like you said, just teach the basics, like how Pinterest, Google Images and Instagram are not public domain, period. I'm having flashbacks to when Pinterest started, and the uproar about people's works being republished without their permission. We all knew then where it would lead and like you said, nothing's changed. I'd really love to see an update in the law and procedures for prosecution for copyright violations too. It's all woefully outdated in the age of the internet.
I'm something of a deviantArt veteran at this point (on the site for 10+ years and still at it), and I will say having been in some fandom-heavy spaces that I do think issues with tracing and theft over there have generally gotten better over the last few years. As for teaching copyright in schools, yes. Except it shouldn't be in the computer classes, because not every student interested in art will take those. If you take an art class, that should be priority _one_ . (Personal story of why to follow.) I took two levels of actual art classes in high school, and an Adobe Visual Design class that taught Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. The Adobe class had us go over basic copyright before we started making anything, so that at least in theory we'd know enough to stay out of trouble. The art classes did not, and I noticed a problem develop as a result rather quickly. The art class teacher employed "DNAs: Do Now Artwork" in which she gave us a packet of black & white printed images from God knows where and the idea was for us to work on those whenever we had free time and have all 5-6 images _copied as closely as possible_ in our sketchbooks by the end of the semester. Some were just photos, some were obviously some other artists' renderings. Naturally, when the art students would post their DNAs to Facebook without mentioning they'd been forcibly using a reference they had to copy as closely as possible, their friends and family were none the wiser and were always amazed at their secret little artist! I was appalled. I understand learning to draw from reference is important, but as someone who before I even took those classes had seen first-hand what not properly crediting resources or just generally not understanding copyright could do to an artistic community, it both angered and baffled me to see that art teacher so carelessly toss out those "references" for that type of assignment without mentioning _anything_ about copyright whatsoever. This was among a hand full of reasons I only took two of the four art levels, and I cannot emphasize enough the night and day difference in environment between those and the very first art class I took in college. My point is: If you want people making art to understand copyright, you have to actually teach it in art classes, otherwise the idea that it's okay to copy and/or trace someone else's work and claim it as your own without giving credit where credit is due _starts_ then and there.
As a teacher, I tell my students about copying and plagiarism but truthfully, most don’t care. The majority of people that do this know it’s wrong. They just come up with excuses to avoid accountability
Law and Latin need to be taught in school so everyone knows how to read legal stuff. But since many can't even seem to learn English, I have little hope
Last summer I had a kid on instagram that was stealing my photography and posting it as their own to impress their mates, and one of my followers found it and told me (You know who you are thanks!). I messaged the kid saying 'Hey there, you have stolen my photography. What you are doing is illegal and not very kind. Could you please take it down?'. They never did, so I put in a copyright claim to Instagram and eventually it went. Best thing to do is put in a claim for copyright. Cussing out a kid as a grown adult wont help them learn.
@Why Me thats still wrong, even if it's a kid that kind of behavior need to be stopped. This person reacted better than most would and instead of calling em out (i think at least idk all the facts) they just kindly asked them to take it down and put a copyright claim on.
@@JP-et9hv and that's how you let the kid know that it's okay to steal , kids r the ones who grow up into adult so if u don't tell them what's wrong they will keep doing than even as adult
@@JP-et9hv stealing is wrong, at least Dystopian didn't send their followers to attack the kid, which is wrong. What Dystopian did was correct and nice.
@@JP-et9hv well the kid could've just taken it down, but kid chose to be ignorant. Whoops, too bad. They won't go to jail or anything for it, they didn't end up getting publicly called out/cancelled. They'd probably just lose a post. Or an instagram account, which wouldn't be that bad, kids usually don't have a running business or some super important stuff on their instagram page :p so losing that is no problem and kid will be taught a lesson. I used to be the same way, except the artist didn't message me first. Just a copyright claim and then I learned my lesson. No harm done, just a post or an account down.
@@nurrou yeah. If the kid ended up getting cancelled that would actually terrify the kid, but an instagram copyright claim? After being asked nicely to take it down n they ignore it anyway? That wouldn't scar anyone, and OP handled it pretty nicely. I just hope the copyright claim goes through. Oftentimes instagram just ignores that.
Accountability is important but I think that we’re in a time and age where we think that it’s okay to abuse and bully others because “we’re right”. We can hold people accountable for their behaviour and actions and maintain proper boundaries without becoming part of the problem.
Lol, I was getting angrier and angrier about this, just because it's been going on since the dawn of images on the internet. And with how our laws and procedures still aren't updated to make it easy to put a stop to it, I could feel my inner bully rising. But then Emily came in, all being an adult about it 😂. You're right Emily, venting my personal frustrations on some random person is never ok. Phew, pre-frontal cortex engaged again.
I agree, not being too mean but I would tell them or call out and report the place if you can. Alert the people running the app and pull the card about saying "This is breeching copyright and should be taken down" and if the people complain then keep working at getting it stopped. If you have the money for it, then sue them if they keep it up.
We live in a world where people don't want to be held accountable. I was in a Discord server and someone put in their intro not to be told they were wrong. It's really disappointing
@@fishbxne what?! Really?! I wouldn’t agree to that and end up leaving because you can go into things and thing your the best. We all have problems and say something and do something wrong and should call them out. What if they do that at a job and get called out,they would get fired…so to me sounds like someone who thinks their entitled and prob dosent work.
There’s also people on TikTok revealing customer names for orders. It is up to the business to keep there customers confidentiality wether they want they order videod or not. Don’t reveal your customer names.
Names? I've seen people revealing their customer's whole life story... about some drama and breakup with their spouse or sth? the customer definitely didn't consent based on how the story was told, and some of the story was based only on the seller's speculation so who knows if the accusations are even true. Just to gain clout. How horrifying, how disgusting. And also I found it not on tiktok itself, but in a tiktok small business compilation video on youtube. Meaning somebody saw that and thought yeah, let's reshare this, this tiktok would look good in my aesthethic tiktok small business compilation!
Kinda related- I am friends with an amazing artist, whom made my pfp, who's art was taken and used in a fancam edit. While they weren't a small business, it was still wrong. Heck, the creator of the edit said that they found it on Google, which, like you said, is not a valid excuse. It was just... Bleh...
Aw that really sucks; I’m a small artist too, but too scared to go on TikTok so I use Pinterest instead TuT Tell your friend I said hi, and good luck!! 💕
@@matchamelon330 I’d say it’s just as likely to get art stolen on pinterest. As a lot of stolen/miscredited art gets credited as “idk i found it on pinterest”. Even when they went out of their way to crop or edit the watermark of the artist.
@@matchamelon330 Pinterest has a huge art theft problem - way bigger than tiktok imo. The only reason people talk about it less is because it's existed for years and years.
This reminds me of a story of my own. Whoever reads this: do you remember the "Taylor Swift stole my fox" story? That was a genuine accident the artist knows that. BUT a couple of years ago, 2018 I think. I was at Academy Sports and Outdoors, looking at shirts, and with one of the t-shirt companies I saw that same Royal Fox. I've been to Ally's shop in the French Quarter, I'd know that fox anywhere, and I follow her on social media; and I saw NOTHING about promoting her fox with this company. So, I sent her an email. As formally as I could I told her "I saw your fox on this company's t-shirt. I don't know if you allowed this or not because I didn't see it anywhere on your social media so I thought I'd send you a message to be on the safe side. Here's a link so you can check up with it. Thank you" Hours later she sent me an email back saying "thank you for telling me. I did NOT give them permission. I'm going to reach out and I'll let you know if I need anything" (I'm guessing the anything was if she had to take it to court). But within a month those shirts were gone lol
Thank you for letting her know! Fast fashion is notorious for this (cough, cough - Urban Outfitters) and just hope they won't get caught. At this point, any graphic out there on anything fashion related, it's almost guaranteed they didn't commission the actual artist. It's some company overseas they hired that will copy images they think are trendy. I'm glad they stopped selling it after you let her know. There's a win for the artists 😊
@@lunacouer UO as well as... errr... I think Bath and Bodyworks... or maybe Bed Bath and Beyond... Either way one of those is also really really bad at stealing art and catchphrases.
I had a friend who has a crafting business. She paints things on wood and makes signs, etc. One day she was in a retail store--I think it was Hobby Lobby, and she saw one of her exact designs on a product in the store. I don't even remember what the outcome of that whole ordeal was. But I do remember that it was some company in Asia that stole the design and then sold it to Hobby Lobby. Apparently there are companies like that...they steal things off the internet specifically to sell to other companies that mass produce the designs for retail stores. It's horrible.
because of how undervalued the arts are in our society, people dont realise how much time and money goes into creating art, and it could be someone's livelihood. but even if it isnt, and the art comes from a hobbyist, stealing art is a direct exploitation of someones labour, and seeing this kind of theft come from other small business owners?? thats insane to me. you wouldnt steal bread from a baker, you wouldnt steal clothes from a clothing store, and you shouldnt steal art from an artist
I think it is because of the internet and digitalisation. Clothes, bread or books are physical things while art (nowadays) and music is not. Music is easy to detect and has a big industry behind it, while artist normally fight for themselves.
Another tend that was happening on Tik Tok a while back was the “what people think my art is like vs what I actually do” and they would use other creatives work or products as examples in a negative and imo mean way to boost up their style in comparison. I haaaated it and thought it was incredibly distasteful
Is it really disrespectful though? I never got the feeling that they were calling those other styles bad. They're just saying that based on (presumably) the artist's appearance or personality, people expect their art to look a certain way, and that trend was just a way of saying that the art and the artist don't always look like they go together.
This is exactly why I stopped uploading my art onto the internet and I only bring my framed art to local art galleries and shops. This is also why I hide my name in each art piece at least 8 times in different spots in each one so they can't take a photo and crop out my signature. Because if you don't purposely look for my name you won't clearly see it. I suggest everyone put their names in their art multiple times in multiple ways also.
This is clever! I'll definitely consider this in my future artworks. Usually I would put my signature in a really complex spot such as in the middle of the hair strands or in the middle of the picture.
@@lajashachampion people goes a longggg way to steal. I used to do that, my art still get stolen, the hair strands redrawed. And guess what? The redrawed hair strands look good! They clearly have some skills. But after that I just make my signature a part of the drawing
@@hello-ie8so I also recommend having a progress video with your name in the clip. Adjust the opacity and always keep it centered and make sure it is the first thing to appear before the video starts. That is unfortunate and silly what people would do to claim work that isn't theirs. The time that individual spends doing something like that, they can use that time to actually learn how to create original artwork. 🙃
I once called out a guy on twitch for using art that wasn’t his, he kept claiming that he made it. Even though it was pretty obvious it wasn’t his, it was a bigger streamers emotes used on the panels. And he jus banned me from his stream, and kept calling me a lair. The worst part of it was that his friends stood up for him, because of the sentiment “he is my friend I trust him no matter what” so I went to the big streamers moderation team, and they called him out on it too. He kept acting like he was the one who made it, and started acting like a little kid that’s been caught lying. He even banned the bigger streamers mod, that told him what he was doing was wrong. And legal action would be taken if he didn’t remove the art, he banned them. Acting like we were lying, even though he was clearly stealing art.
@@JustAnzia Well, at least he took that stuff down! That's a happy ending as far as I'm concerned. It really sucks that he had to be threatened into acting like a decent human being though.
Plagiarism needs to be addressed more in schools. It is a simple concept and not hard to understand. Those who think that displaying art means "steal it please" are ignorant.
I mean, you do get expelled in uni for plagiarism, at least that's from where I live. Plagiarism in school projects and exams immediately result in zero marks as well, although that should be a given.
On the tracing thing, my daughter started out tracing these little chibi characters and would get so many horrible comments. She now does her own art work but it was tracing that helped her develop the skills she needed to draw on her own. Thank you for pointing out that a lot of them are kids.
Tracing is not a bad thing, it’s how many artists learn. The only problem with tracing is when people claim it as their own. When you say something you drew was traced is perfectly fine as long as you credit the original, then again your daughter could’ve been young and had not known what that meant. This is why I’m very against leaving mean comments towards people who trace. A nice comment saying it’s wrong is still getting your point across.
This is also very common in the tattooing community as well. Artists need to inform their clients that just because they found a design on Pinterest or google images, doesn’t mean it’s fair game. I understand the client maybe not knowing about art copyright, but any self respecting artist should know not rip off someone else’s work.
OH MY GOD! The Disney princess glow-up content drives me crazy and I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who sees it as an issue. It's not just because It's not creative, but it perpetuates beauty standards simply because the princess in question wasn't wearing any clothes, hairstyle, or make-up that was trending at the moment. In fact Tik Tok has a bunch of glow-up content, more specifically edits where someone would use a celebrity and use there child and/or teen photos, videos, or both as the "then" part and then use their more recent selves as the "now" part. It essentially implies that they were an ugly duckling when they were younger and now they're "hot" as an adult even though some of the celebrities in question weren't even ugly in the first place, which is just mean-spirited and that needs to stop.
Hey you know that person who creates disney princess with disabilities? I thought that's so nice and so cool, so original until it's revealed by commenters that he literally traced... and of course, claims it as his own 100% original artwork, sells it and got super duper famous over it. Whoops.
Messing with fictional characters might still be copyright issue and whatnot but messing with real people is just... wow. Fucked up, of course people never ask the consent of the celebs. And then suddenly they get made fun of for their name or actions, get videos implying they were hot now but ugly when younger, get shipped with other random people/celebs. Get gross fanfics and art made out of them (I'm talking the r18 shipping stuff). All because they're famous
I recently had an art related video of mine on tik tok go viral and get uploaded to RU-vid reels without my permission(so it was stolen) - some people were also tearing apart my appearance when it had literally nothing to do with the video. I emailed them and since got the video removed (which I’m lucky I could get it removed cuz some people are not so KIND yanno)
This isn’t even just art tiktok, I’ve seen full on comedy sketches ripped off as well as music stealing and people who claim to have originated dance choreography they had no part in creating.
Emily reminds me of that teacher that would be really stern and frank with everyone then have a pizza party right after. She is really clear with what she is trying to communicate but she isn’t a jerk about it.
Hello there, I have come from the mess that is she who shall not be named. I've decided to unsub from her as soon as I heard about your ordeal, tbh I've loved your art for years but could never justify adding another sub to the collection. I'll be looking forward to your far more wholesome content from now on and I really hope things get so much brighter for you.
“I found it on Google, so I thought it would be okay to help myself.” Sure, sure, no problem. I hope you don’t mind, but I found a car in your driveway, and I thought it would be okay to help myself. It was just sitting there, easily accessible to anyone walking by. Also, while you were at work, I noticed a super cute puppy in your backyard. I figure if you didn’t want someone to take him, you wouldn’t put him where people could see him, so I just helped myself. I’m sure you won’t mind…
Im also gonna plagiarize this Jk Im gonna screenshot hope you don't mind im kinda tired of my cousin taking my art and posting it on Facebook pretending to be hers
These people who are stealing art just does not know anything about CREDITING the original artists and they are always misunderstood as the original creators. There are just bunch of hashtags that further misconcepts people into. When will people learn?😒🙄
I'm on tiktok and I have got my art stolen or traced, even on my animation's. small accounts have been stealing my animations saying it's their's. I'm just saying it's just very annoying. Ik there kids but it happens to me several times that my followers have been noticing. Even a friend as well is getting traced.
it sucks because TikTok not only doesn't promote artists more than stupid overrated dances, but just lets someone's hard work be stolen, and not taking care of it.
Tiktok’s copyright reporting system is so broken. Ppl repost my art on there a lot (cuz of Fanart) and nothing gets done. You report but you don’t get an email that they received your report and don’t get back to you in 48 hours like other social media do. And people gain and profit from shit they didn’t do. It takes me spamming their comments to even get them to take down my art and barely works :/ these kids need an online art etiquette class.
I feel like it's super weird that this video never mentions that it's straight up illegal to rip peoples art off google or instagram and sell it without permission, and that these "business owners" could be sued and lose their entire "business" if they get caught doing this and piss off the wrong artist.
Something else I notice a lot is accounts on tictok will post videos that include images, typically fan art, of others artists work. While these accounts usually don’t claim the art as their own, they also don’t credit the original artist. From what I’ve seen, this is a problem on other social media too, and it’s especially problematic when artists express that they don’t want their art reposted.
When you look at images on google they say you are responsible for making sure you don't impinge someone's copyright. Those people have no leg to stand on, it's straight up theft.
I just wanted to add, there's a big difference between using others people's art for reference and straight up tracing/copying/ripping someone off. I'm an artist and often look at photos of anatomy/still life just for reference of shadows/shapes and I remember when I was in school my actual art teacher called me out in front of the class for "tracing". I was not tracing, I had a stock photo of a woman running next to the picture I was drawing and just using to make sure demensions were right because putting motion onto a 2d piece of work is hard. Anyway, this traumatized me from making art for a long time, I felt like a fraud and like "wow I have no talent, I can't draw from my own head on the fly" found of years later most artists use references and that teacher was just a c word.
I am a high school teacher; I teach art and in the past I taught English I (freshmen). A lot of the kiddos honestly did not know that copying and pasting in a paper with no credit to the source was copyright infringement (which blew my mind). And I do teach my art students that copying or tracing a master work (or anything they like) is a good way to learn. Of course I always tell them that this is for *practice* only and you shouldn't claim it as your own work, and that they shouldn't post it on social media, but if they do, they need to credit the original artist. So definitely come at the issue with the idea of educating the person.... because many may not know, especially younger people who have grown up with everything being shared on social media since they were in diapers. I am also an artist/illustrator/fiber artist myself and I sell work online. I know many are just trying to make a quick buck and do steal work on purpose. Of course, this is so wrong and heartbreaking to any artist, and should be addressed and persecuted. I think it would be pretty easy to tell if the person just didn't know better once someone corrects them, or if they just didn't care. Emily, amazing work, you're such an inspiration. I've been in an art block lately and trying to claw my way out of it. Watching your videos is definitely helping.
Another platform I use a lot (which I get has lots of children but teens I've noticed are getting into this) it's called Animal Jam. Now I use this basically use this just for art and there are SO many tracers and copy cats and when u call then out- they get offended and put it all on u like ur the bad guy saying ur just declining then of creativity. It's so toxic I just want good art platforms 😩 anyone know some with a good community?
Last time I checked but using someone else’s art without permission is illegal and you will end up in court. Seriously how are people able to get away with theft?
There’s a lot of really cool businesses and talented artists on tik tok, but tbh there’s a lot of really repetitive art. I guess that’s true for any social platform though. I actually prefer following artists on RU-vid though. Tik tok is so fast and everything’s cut so short, I feel like I can’t actually learn anything about their process or life
You seem like such a kind person. I had unsubbed from csa ages ago because I couldn't shake the feeling she was bitter and overly aggressive in her content. The possibility she did this to you does surprise me but confirms the bitterness and aggression I got from her. I'm subbing not because of the drama but because your content is amazing. Not very artistic myself but always been interested in it.
The best way to deal with people who overreact is to just calmly respond never show anger because that just makes them more angry and if they instant want to go to anger then hey it's a laugh but if they are willing to have a conversation after the initial yelling then being calm opens a gateway to that.
Okay, but honestly Emily’s art is amazing. Like usually with commentary channels I’ll just turn on their videos in the background while I’m drawing or playing video games, but the way Emily has such good control over her brush strokes makes the video mesmerizing and I have to watch it. Plus her voice is super soothing too.
Oh man, it’s not just tic tic. There’s this guy with a burning man type art bus that’s been parked in my lot for a year. At first, I was intrigued and decided to check out his work. I realized that he was stealing art and photography and putting a filter over it that makes it look like a painting. He makes SO much money on stolen art, and there’s nothing I can really do about it. It sucks because I have to see him almost every day.
with the tracing one - yes tracing someone else art is not ok, but tracing is a legitimate way for artists to improve anatomy, perspective and proportion. I trace photographs that I have taken which is fine as I have taken the photo - I also trace other peoples reference photos for anatomy, however I always credit the photographer. It does depend on the context but tracing is actually a good thing for a lot of artists - provided the correct credit is given of course.
Absolutely agree - my point was to get the initial basics of sketching and anatomy tracing is good. Obviously when an artist progresses they should stop tracing, but it’s a good starting point.
Tracing and refrencing arent theft if your drawing what you are seeing from a PHOTOGRAPH its not stealing. But when it comes to other peoples art then yeah thats stealing.
Lately I've been watching a lot of Reels and RU-vid shorts, and while I may not support tiktok I do see a lot of stolen work from artist on both. I do report them but I find it stupid that people are going to these extents to trace and steal another artist's work for what feels like a few seconds of fame.
@Bloody WANKER Yeah. And like Emily said some of them tend to take full credit for someone else's hard work. I've even seen a few where people ask who made it originally and the thief says they did
Im really glad you mentioned to approach kindly. As someone thats in a digital art comunity there is a great deal of theft and or tracing peoples work. The thing is some of those times its kids, and they generally dont understand that what they're doing may harm the original creator money wise. So many artists will come out of the gate full of rage and hostility leading to the person becoming defensively or perhaps just not responding. When a nice explanation would do the same thing. (Also i dont see anything wrong with tracing in general, its a good way to jumpstart anatomy training, its just when its posted and clamed to be all your work is where a lot have the problem)
10:23 technically if you are doing Disney princess glow ups it’s not art theft because you’re using it in a new and inventive way/ creating something new from it. Also Disney is not an individual artist, Disney is a large corporation. As long as it’s within copyright laws and they’re not selling the redraws they’re perfectly within their right to be doing it.
I wonder if watermarks would help because I have drawings on my instagram, and though I don't have a huge following there is that fear that someone would take my art and try to pass it as their own.
You wonder?? Mate, with all due respect, if you ever show your art online, always slap a watermark on it. 😥 People are merciless, and some of my friends have gotten their art stolen. Even if it's a tiny sketch, slap a watermark on it. People steal everything nowadays.
Always use a watermark. People can still see the artwork through it to see what your style is like, the watermark just makes it so much harder to steal because they can't get rid of it.
I found pins in the mall that used pictures screencapped from someone’s NSFW doujinshi. Of all the pieces to steal, I found that crop the oddest, but it was super easy to recognize the type of media it was from at a glance!
This is happening on other social media as well, and in the fine art world. A friend of mine, whom I work for part time to help her get product ready to ship, is successful as an oil painter. She sells prints and cards, etc... She has a forger that lives within a few hours of where we do, and the forger is brazen about it. They have copied at least 18 of my friend's works, and tags my friend in the posts, trying to lure fans of her legitimate work to their online store. They have finally been slapped with legal action, but it's a long, difficult, and expensive thing to go through.
As, an professional Graphic artist at a company, we get clients, that want us to copy another design. The salesperson, just wants the sale, but I need to always give them an education why we are not to copy. * many times to some salespeople 🤦♀️. It’s a issue that I’ve been dealing with my entire professional life (30 years). Most of the time I the order is done and closed, but a times it a fight to the end and I have to do the work. The burnden is then on our company not me. I have caught other companies copying our work and yes they have been in legal hot water.
As someone who worked in the stained glass industry for 30+ years, I can relate to this. People would come into the studio carrying designs they wanted quotes on, and I knew they were another artist's work. So many times, customers would try to acquire the design I was working on for them, and I knew they would try to shop it about for a cheaper price. I refused to poach from other artists hard work, and hope others held the same ethics.
I used to work at Office Depot and I had a woman come in to print out photos that still had the watermark down the side and she straight up told me "just crop it out, that removes the copyright". I was like it???doesn't????work???that???way????!?!?!??!? She was very angry when I wouldn't print it for her.
Your situation with shannon happened to me online as well, I was racially targeted by another creator who tried to hurt my success on RU-vid and elsewhere. They stalk me since 2015.
Instagram is soooo bad for this, I think the majority of the art I see on Instagram is stolen content put on random compilation art accounts with no tagging or even mention of the artists name on the post. So I’m like??? Who made this, I want to follow them because I like their art, but can’t, because the watermark isn’t there or it’s unrecognisable and they’ve refused to credit them :/
It reminds me that a artist on twitter made this cute amazing pfp pic kind of matching and people started to edit it into anime like naruto headbands and when the artist expresses that they didn't liked their pfp to be edited or use as a pfp without credit people got mad
sometimes i trace anatomy from pinterest and flesh it out so i can practice clothing and folds, but i normally just keep it to myself and i don't post it because it's simply practice.
Yep, this is scary as a creator who hasnt started selling my art but wants to. I enjoy sharing my projects in my journey towards that goal. And as tracing goes, we shouldnt to too mad and irrate at these young artists... because one it is most likelu bullying a child as emily pointed out. But also because most artists started out by tracing their favorite media... we just didnt have the internet to share that part with so we can lock it in our closests as a quiet reminder of where we started. Of course not all of these people are doing it innocently as a way to express themselves and learn.
I got in an argument with a grown woman because she traced the pose of another artists art work and when I called her out on it in comments she was on and on about how she just 'referenced' it despite literally tracing over the piece
Here to support this queen 👑 I'm sorry about all the terrible things that have happened to you over the past 10 years, you're amazing and she will get caught out
Another problem is art profiles on IG not giving credit when they share an artists work. Like, WE KNOW you didn’t make this. Share where you got it from!!!
I had an art peice reposted without my knowledge or consent so when i told that blog reposter to take it down they wouldn't listen. And it was so frustrating because ive never had my art stolen from me before.
I follow an amazing artists on Instagram who recently had their artwork stolen on television, this person would sell their artwork ON TV, once they saw that they contacted the person and he denied that he traced it. The TV show company acted as if the original artist was the one that was in the wrong by telling them to “calm down” while they investigated. They had to get a lawyer in order for the company to respond. Tracing can be a great way to learn, but NEVER claim it as your own.
I'm sorry I found you through the drama with Shannon, but I'm thankful to have found you. I love your personality and your artwork is beautiful. I'd love a tattoo drawn by you 🖤
One thing I found a lot of stolen art on are anime edits. Some ppl use fanarts of an anime and put them in their edits without giving credit to the artist. It's quite blatant and sad and I'll be sitting there blown away by a fanart , wondering who is the artist. I also found reposting art pages who don't credit madly annoying. Like once I found this absolute , amazing artwork done by someone and I spent a solid 30 min tryna figure out who the artist is , what's the peice's name and can I buy it. I was so madly in love with that painting....
Amazing video and artwork as always! Thank you for talking about this💖, I’ve also seen a lot of people just straight up reposting other people’s art without crediting the artist or anything, the just say “credit to the artist” or they say “the artwork is not mine” but they don’t credit the artist and it’s just so stupid to me and it angers me so much😖
Met a meme page who reposted fanart without credit but then saw them comment on a repost of one of their memes, asking for credit. They definitely weren't a fan when I called them out on their hypocrisy
@Music: ON World: OFF I sadly can't remember the artist's name, but they were on pixiv and I told them about it (it's already been a year and more, so I don't remember if anything happened) and the art was a kingdom hearts crackship with the characters Kairi and Max, Goofy's son. The reposter was incredibly rude, and so were their friends, even worse is after I confronted them I scrolled through their gallery and had to see that it wasn't the first time they did this. I reported them and honestly, blocked them. Who knows what this group will do to small artists calling them out and I really don't want to find out.
@Music: ON World: OFF I'm pretty sure they did put a signature, but those things sadly don't stop others from just reposting work without credit. It would be cool if it would work :(
@Music: ON World: OFF aw that sucks to read, I hope things are better now :( Regarding my socials, I usually swear a lot and definitely isn't a safe space for minors, so if you're underage, it's not the best idea to follow me. Only got @s.leeves_scu on Instagram as an active account though
i see most of the tracing artists that I come across especially on tiktok are not selling the artwork but in fact only using it as practice and to document their improvement. so I never hold them accountable for anything they do honestly, wether its on tiktok or any other social media platform.
For the most part they're up front about what they're doing. Its not a secret. And the glow up stuff is pretty fun to watch. Photo editing is a skill too and thats basically what they're doing there. It's not like they're printing and selling the finished product. (At least I don't think they are. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
4:25 Sidenote: Are you freaking kidding me?! I just got an ad about HOW TO MAKE MONEY OFF OTHER PPLS ART ON INSTAGRAM…. Wowwww who knew the algorithm was so rude 💀
So beautiful 😍 as a fellow small business owner who creates her own characters I often feel quite frustrated by the amount of tracing and copying of work. Like I'm happy for people having a successful small business but when it's success is by copying others (even if its a massive behemoth like Marvel) it can be quite disheartening. 🌸
This is one of those eye-opening moments (no pun intended given the art work in the video) that I am thankful for the media copyright law class I took in art college back in 2003... took it twice because it was a VERY hard class and I failed the first time. Personally I think media copyright laws should be more predominantly out there and all over the place, because most people really have no clue that they even exist.
I did a whole video on originality vs plagiarism after multiple creators stole my work. Word of advice to artist using social media, know copyright law and some folk need to understand that some things are just not okay in this world to easily get away with. Eventually the art thefts gets caught, if a piece is authentic enough then it does become even more apparent where the orginal stemed from and therefore the theft just becomes and good for nothing immatator. Loved the artwork in this video by the way regardless of the paper it still appears very vibrant. 💜👌
I hate art theft so much! Also, amazing art as always, I love this. ALSO ALSO, eyedrops containing Sodium Cromoglicate helps with itchy, watery, stingy allergy eyes. (i have really bad allergies)
I love how calm and friendly you approach the issue, and yes, most of the time the ofenders are childrens that don’t understand yet or minors that know better, but use the: “I’m a minor” card and run with that, they need to learn, and the only way to teach right and sound is with amability, we need more friendly people not more people raging at each other
Not very cool, but I'm sure it allowed you to gain some knowledge in art! We all did dumb stuff as kids and learn from it, dont worry to much about it!
I've been bouncing around the idea of starting my own business, and I'm definitely lucky enough to know how to do graphic design so I can actually create my own logos and branding but I would love to see other small business' try to do that as well?? Like, Canva is 100% free (Minus all the premium items that you have to pay for-) and it even has templates you can look off of! It's kinda like they don't seem to wanna put in the effort to be original? I would 1000% use basic images I found on Canva until I was able to afford new branding, honestly
This entire subject has been on my mind a lot lately and it's so nice to see a really mindful video on it which is actually respectful and not nasty. Thank you
This is exactly why I never post any of my art on the internet, not even on my Instagram (which is private)!! I don’t someone to plagiarize/steal my work.
I dont mind the photoshop art or the edits most people do it for fun. But sellling it is wrong. If you didnt create the entire image yourself its still copyright. And your not a small business. And children cant sell items so I know theyre adults
the worst part is the only way we’re gonna see a significant change in the amount of art that’s stolen is once someone takes someone to court for theft. which is so hard
