Bet you didn't know this re. Stolen artwork

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So again I've seen someone take my Daredevil artwork and use it to sell tshirts. Which again is super fucked up. 

Then I got shown this little bit of info jitenshasw.tumblr.com/post/145…

Give it a read if you post art on here, it's worth a look.
So my first instinct is to just leave here BUT I've made many many friends on here that only follow me here and I don't want to leave them cos I appreciate their support too much and it's because of them that I've managed to build my artistic career. So the only thing I can think of that will make me feel better is that when I post artwork on here I will most likely watermark it. Sorry guys, but at least that way I can still show it to you without this other crap happening. 

Anyhoo, hope everyone is doing well and taking care of yourselves.

Love and hugs.
-S
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despicablethem's avatar
I am hesitant to weigh in on these matters.
I am neither a lawyer nor a professional artist, and thankfully an actual lawyer has weighed in down-thread.
But I am confident about one thing:

Don't take legal advice from Tumblr.

Too many people tend towards hysteria, and there is no mechanism for pushback against faulty data.
Great for signal boosting, terrible for reasoned debate.

The idea that a website whose business model relies on artists freely uploading their art, and building a community of those artists and their fans, would drive away their client base  by claiming ownership of said artist's work on a mass scale is patently ridiculous on it's face.
It's an even more bizarre claim when you consider that they're supposed to have done this to sell fucking twenty dollar T-shirts.

And the cherry on the cake is the fact that much of the art on this website is of IP copyrighted by megacorporations, with mega legal departments looking to jump down the throats of individuals trying to profit off their work without permission.

Really, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.