telophase: (Nell thinks you're an idiot)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2008-11-05 06:38 pm

Oh dear lord

Girl posts to DA forums asking if her art is bad. Art, at least the first few pictures, consists of photographs she's taken from dailysnapshots.com or other places, placed happy faces on elements in the pictures, and failed to remove the watermark from. And, by the way, attempting to sell as prints.*

When I post pointing out that dailysnapshot.com has a Creative Commons license allowing no commercial use and no alteration of the work and that she needs to file permission with DA from the photographer to sell works based on his photographs, she hurriedly crops out the watermarks and slaps ugly signatures on them, resubmits the pieces under Fan Art, and replies to me with the most gosh-darn-innocent "Who?" that you've ever seen.

Your ass has been reported, hon.

(Oh, I like the assertion later in the thread that the cactus picture - round cactus in an outdoor bed with gravel - is her cactus from her room. XD)

ETA: Haaah! I am So Damn Tempted to ask her, in the thread, what the lighting setup she used in the picture of the candy was. XD She says she just used her mom's digital camera.

* If someone had ordered one, it wouldn't have gone through as DA checks all prints for resolution and copyright, and even if the copyright has been missed, the resolution wouldn't be high enough for print. But the intent irritated the hell out of me.

[identity profile] matildarose.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
.... Some people are really, really stupid. If she pulled this shit on conceptart she'd *know* the meaning of 'hate mail'. That is, if someone telling her what she's doing is against the rules is 'hate hail'.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. Most of the time when I report stuff, I push the lever over towards Not Important, because it's usually just Photobucket syndrome. But this was a deliberate attempt to make money directly off of another person's livelihood, so I shot that sucker all the way over to High Importance. XD And posted a link to the forum thread, so hopefully it'll be shut down.

ETA: That's also why I haven't given her the Telophase bitchslap - I don't need to get myself reported for harassment. XD

[identity profile] matildarose.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Usually, if it's photobucket syndrome, I just click the 'other' box unless there's wording somewhere that says 'i did this'. If it's from a DA member or a case of deliberate art theft, I click on high. Unless it's something huge or DA's dragging its feet, I tend not to get too insane.

Some people are nuts, though. One person that lurked on devart was ranting about how she noted an artist about an art theft, and, since the artist told her to report it and 'forgot to say thank you', she (the reporter) was angry. Dude, superiority complex much? 9_9;;

[identity profile] unrelatedwaffle.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
UGH. I don't even understand this. Plagiarism is a very serious offense. She should get kicked off DA, and not just her username, but her IP address.

[identity profile] ginkage.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Ya know what? I went through her DA and boggled. How is it art to post a snapshot of your computer's screensaver set to 'Mystify' in Windows? That's... cheap.

[identity profile] yhlee.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Dumb question: what is Photobucket syndrome?

Meanwhile: yai.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Dumping all the art they've right-clicked and downloaded into DeviantArt to show it off, without claiming they did it. Basically using DA as a gallery of other people's art. Usually done by younger people who don't realize that they're not allowed to do that, although some of them will re-upload stuff taken down and try to put it under Fanart or Screenshot to get past the rules. XD

Quite often, when called on it, they'll protest that the original artists will get more exposure (when there's no recognizable signature on the art? How?). Or they'll paste a blanket "All credit to the original artists" line in the comments box. Uh-huh. I think not.

[identity profile] cyancat.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Want another giggle?

Apparently shes set up a "Coloring Contest" On some coloring sheets in her gallery....
Oy the humanity

http://news.deviantart.com/article/60716/

and here is her... Bebo?? account.
http://upload.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=6887869295
Yeah, she's emo alright.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Of course she is: her quiz results say so!

[identity profile] cacodaemonia.livejournal.com 2008-11-06 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
HAHA! What a tool. XD