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

[tinnean.livejournal.com]

Definitely not overreacting. However, if she does respond, I wouldn't be surprised if she claims it's a huge misunderstanding and that it's really her work. Or else she'll tell you it's a compliment and you should be gratified she liked your work enough to snag it.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. Please keep us posted as to what happens. *hugs*

[nanuk-dain.livejournal.com]

Thanks, my dear *hugs back*. I haven't heard from her yet, and I giver her a few more days, but then my patience comes to an end. She can tell me all she wants that it's her original work, I have the f*** photoshop files with all the bits and pieces from countless pictures that I used to put together the manip, and I know she can't have those, because I MADE THEM! And I posted my manips three years before her, so that's a good indication as well. Wahhh, I'm so mad at her.

And if she comes with the compliment thing, I might just set her straight that stealing isn't a compliment and that I'm not feeling flattered but offended and very very pissed. And I might bite her head off. But I can see how somebody who did something nasty like this in the first place might actually say such things. For her own heath I seriously hope she doesn't.

I'll keep you posted, and if it gets down to it, I will greatly appreciate anybody who helps me spreading the warning about that stealing lying little $%&§