What!? This is still happening to you. I can't believe the length that some people will go just to steal a photo and not do anything other than reload it as theirs. Though one thing occurs to me, your writing advice to people who can't or won't read, I suppose there's just no winning.
I am so sorry. It was completely my fault with my piece.
I have a suggestion though that I have seen other DA photographer's use. You can go into your edit deviation menu and uncheck the "allow full download". I know that because it was available for full download that is what tripped me up (apart from just not checking the "resources and stock" tab on my search).
Your photos are so lovely. I think that just not allowing the full download would really help you.
Relax. This wasn't even inspired by you. Promise. This as been going on for years.
I had just searched something on DA and found a photo of mine that had the dA watermark ON it, and they had smeared it off in Photoshop so they could use it.
Everyone else just assumes everything on the internet is a free for all.
Theres a few people redistributing cut out versions of your horse stock, but since I couldn't find any stock use rules I couldn't work out if you allowed people to do that. Maybe having a clear set of rules on your front page would help for stuff like that?
The old crummy photos I have loaded up for stock, I don't really care what people do with them. Use them, cut them out and make pre-cut stock with no background. I don't care.
However when I find time and time again things made with pictures that people had to edit out the DA watermark from to even USE and where I said THIS IS NOT STOCK and didn't even enter it IN the stock section...that's when I get irritated.
j/k, well.. sort of. A lot of people don't read because well, that requires effort and it *is* the internet, so naturally they think everything posted here is free range.
I've been reading a lot of instances of art theft lately.
Though one thing occurs to me, your writing advice to people who can't or won't read, I suppose there's just no winning.
I have a suggestion though that I have seen other DA photographer's use. You can go into your edit deviation menu and uncheck the "allow full download". I know that because it was available for full download that is what tripped me up (apart from just not checking the "resources and stock" tab on my search).
Your photos are so lovely. I think that just not allowing the full download would really help you.
I had just searched something on DA and found a photo of mine that had the dA watermark ON it, and they had smeared it off in Photoshop so they could use it.
Everyone else just assumes everything on the internet is a free for all.
Theres a few people redistributing cut out versions of your horse stock, but since I couldn't find any stock use rules I couldn't work out if you allowed people to do that. Maybe having a clear set of rules on your front page would help for stuff like that?
However when I find time and time again things made with pictures that people had to edit out the DA watermark from to even USE and where I said THIS IS NOT STOCK and didn't even enter it IN the stock section...that's when I get irritated.
j/k, well.. sort of. A lot of people don't read because well, that requires effort and it *is* the internet, so naturally they think everything posted here is free range.
I've been reading a lot of instances of art theft lately.