i got a tip from someone about a person tracing(perhapppss??) my work and making a profit off of it on t-shirts
ill just copy-paste the note they sent me since the information works well enough:
Hi, i found a person who re-drawed your work ( http://r-wolfe.deviantart.com/art/Pastel-Baphomet-10-CLOSED-354136639 ) and now is selling t-shirts with this image. ( http://imageshack.com/a/img849/827/k7zq.jpg#_=_ )
This t-shirt: http://fuuckie.cupsell.pl/produkt/249221-Galaxy-damska-.html
She is a little famous and she make like 1000$ on shirts (not only with your art)
pthhhh issue is i guess bc the site being used for the sale is in polish and im,,,, i dont know any polish
whoops what shall i do, any advice ya guys?
First, it is on YOU to Prove your art has been stolen.
The pose itself... can't be copyrighted...? However if it is a direct trace, you can make an overlay and animate the cross fade to show that the artist traced your work. This will also show you if it's a trace or if the pose was just used.
Once you have the evidence, contact the artist with a cease and desist order. If they ignore it, send one to the company with the proof.
sadly, at a glance to me it looks more like "heavily eyeballed" than "directly traced".
or they traced but purposefully deviated from the lines a bit so they don't overlay perfectly. which is just as much theft but makes it harder to prove....
yeah i think that's exactly what they did....
which to me says this is a career thief who thinks they're clever and tricky.
i hope an overlay or just the comparison is proof enough and they respond to you and handle it because this is some shitty poop right here.
Honestly you'd likely be surprised at how much English is used as a business language in Europe and Asia. Even if they don't speak or write English well, they can most likely understand it.
I'm willing to help out however I can - I have a friend who speaks Polish and could have a look at a message for you if you need it still.
Let me know what's up.
I gave you a small signal boost on Twitter but from what I read I think you already got some help. Awesome! Hope this gets sorted out. Tracing is hella wrong, especially making profit off of it. :/
This has happened to me[and the thieves mass produced them and sold them at CONS, a store in california, and on AMAZON.]
Best is to email with a cease and desist, then open up a case with http://www.dmca.com/takedowns.aspx
I've heard this happens on a lot of Polish site, and apparently in Poland they just don't give a fuck. I hope you can at least get them to remove it.
I think... if you wanted to contact the website owners, I would first write up what I had to say in english, and then below it, use a google translate and repost. Chances are, they'll have somebody who can at least read a little english. From there they could probably piece together with the translation what you are trying to say.
Hopefully that makes sense. :x
That's what I'd do if this happened to me.
http://www.ezimba.com/work/140226C/ezimba11050989260400.gif
did a little thing for ye
Now that I think about it I actually recognize the person who's selling the shirt. She's popular and self absorbed as heck, and just all around a gross person, so getting her to take it down herself might be a challange orz"
(And what pisses me of the most is that the trace is actually ugly as fuck.)
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somniopus
I would contact the owners of the site with your complaints. They should be able to read english, I hope. :P