My Art theft experience

It’s still happening. Every month dozens of new products spring up on the internet featuring my artwork. Art which I’d not given permission to use. I’m not a fan of my work being taken by someone else without content- especially when it negatively impacts sales of my own products. I’ve added a video discussing (and ranting about) my experiences on YouTube and thought I’d share it here:

Removing infringements

After posting the video, I went on to remove 182 instances of copyright infringement! That’s at least 300 removals so far in total. There’s still more which needs taking down, and no doubt there will be hundreds more to remove over the coming year. For now it’s a job I’ll have to maintain like cutting my hair or mowing the lawn. If anyone reads this and wants to use my work, that’s fine: For non-profit use, be sure to include my name and a link back to this site. For commercial use, send me a message and we can discuss rights to licence high-res versions of artwork you’re interested in.

Your thoughts

Has Art Theft of this nature always been around? Am I wasting time by stressing over it? If people take your art/music/writing/content and sell it without permission online, would you try to do anything about it? Should companies such as eBay or Amazon for example take more responsibility for moderating products for sale on their platforms? If so what might you suggest they do about it? I’d love to know your thoughts.

Also see my previous related posts: ‘Art Theft and stealing images online‘ and ‘Art theft and further criticism of pod sites‘ and most recently ‘Art theft: The Story continues‘ for further reading.

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