DeviantArt is a place where artists (known or unknown) showcase their art to the rest of the world. People visiting DeviantArt come here to look at those artists' work and perhaps be inspired themselves. What DeviantArt is NOT, is the world's largest stock gallery where everyone can jump in, steal whatever they want and be off with it, to use it in whatever way they see fit.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy knowing that my work has inspired someone to write, draw, or come to conclusions about their own life (art can do that, too). But it REALLY pisses me off when I browse through Google and stumble upon some Polish or Chinese or whatever site, where someone has decided to download one of my photos, photo manipulations or drawings, quickly wipe out the copyright information from it and upload it as a support image for a text they've written, or as a separate image on its own.

Do a Google Image Search for "iresil" and you will find at least three of my art pieces, used without any permission whatsoever. And there are more of them, and not a single site mentions its sources. I DO have the originals and can prove that they are MY WORK, but even so, we are artists here, and artists strive for RECOGNITION! Who is going to know that I created these images, if here on DeviantArt my art is viewed about 40 times average and on those other sites it gets 4000 (!) downloads??

MY ART IS NOT STOCK!!!
IT IS NOT FREE TO EDIT OR RE-UPLOAD AND IT IS MINE!!!
..AND NO, YOU CANNOT CLAIM IT AS YOURS!

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