SOMEONE STOLE MY ARTWORK!

[nanuk_dain]

Oh my gosh, I'm so fuming right now. I was just making use of the opportunity to have internet for an hour or two and checked the web for pictures of Rush from Stargate Universe, and guess what, one of those appearing on the google image search looked a lot like one of my manips, but altered. So I checked it out, and guess what, I found THREE of my manips on that person's page, all altered and my signature taken out! Oh, I've not had that in my entire time in fandom, but man, I'm ready to kill her.

But no, I'm a reasonable person, so I actually registered at that site, wrote a polite but very very clear message and asked her to take down my manips. Now I'll give her a few days to comply, and then I'll report her to the site AND I will make sure that all my fandoms, not only Stargate Universe, get warned about her. I'm reasonably sure that I'm not the only framed artist here. And since she provided her twitter, tumblr and facebook, I'm pretty sure I can raise hell if she doesn't take down my stolen and altered artwork.

Tell me, friends, am I overreacting here? I've been in the fandom world for over a decade and I never had that happen to me, but I'm so pissed right now... Please let me know if you think I'm overdoing it. I might not have a clear mind about this right now... I dare say I'm usually a nice person, but right now I feel very malicious...

Yours,

a very very angry Nanuk



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Comments

[tarlanx]

You have a right to be angry! Theft is theft. This person is no better than any other plagiarist.

[nanuk-dain.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that makes me feel better. I've heard about stuff like this, but it never happened to me, and now that it has, I'm so so angry. Because it's just a no-go, to steal and alter art. Reposting without permission is one thing - hard to contain since the emergence of tumblr - , but taking out the artist's signature AND altering the artwork seems like the height of impudence to me... How can anybody do that and actually think it's ok? It's even worse than plagiarism on my eyes. And then to think it wouldn't come out at some point? That's just stupid.