She caught my eye with a journal rant about people who were stealing her art, which is always such a fucking giveaway. Anyone who flips out like that inevitably has 99% ripped art on display, it's like some kind of law. I also saw lots of comments graciously giving other artists permission to manipulate the artwork in her photos for their own pieces. She was posting her way through the entire Tarot of Casanova series, with each one bearing the irritating and (for DA, at least) ubiquitous "don't steal my work" whine underneath.
1. Credit me for my work at (LINK)
2. Send a link by note to my normal account (LINK) (the avatars look the same but its two seperate accounts.
3. No pieces are to be used in prints unless you ask me first by note. I don't bite.
What balls! Anyway, I went and found the tarot deck she was ganking from, and submitted a violation report including links to that deck on amazon.com, which featured sample images showing several identical cards to the ripped "stock" pieces. I pointed the identical images out and even linked to the artist's website where they were posted, in case the staffer who handled the report suffered from more than the usual DA moderator brain damage. Months went by after I sent off the report, hearing nothing back. By and by I forgot about the whole thing.
And then tonight I opened my DA notes, and was greeted by this message:
Your Art theft (General) Violation Report on 400 was reviewed by a member of the staff and action was taken, marking the report as Need Information.
Additionally, the following comment was provided:
Not enough information was provided in the report for any review or decision to be made.
-- deviantART Staff
Elvis Christ. Six months to look at the report and they can't spare two seconds to read the damn thing? Whatever salary these nimrods make working for DA, they're overpaid.
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