because of the reasons outlined above, this is often the only real recourse we have, and it is often successful at least in having the products pulled. retweet, reblog, and repost your friend’s social media posts about their art being stolen. basically just don’t imply that it is the artist’s fault their work has been stolen. most artists just can’t afford to litigate over theft by larger companies, regardless of how cut-and-dried the case might look.
the vast majority of lawyers are not willing to work on contingency for the small payout these types of cases typically get. if a case goes to litigation it can can cost thousands. just sending C&Ds can cost hundreds of dollars. speaking as someone who currently has a lawyer on a variety of these cases - it’s not easy or cheap. unless you are a lawyer or personally know a lawyer willing to work on contingency or at drastically reduced rates, please do not suggest we sue, no matter how helpful you may think you are being. (also it’s highly probably that Picasso didn’t even say that, but that’s a rant for another day.) this is NOT what that refers to, and if you think Picasso would have been OK with people directly copying his paintings and profiting off them without his permission, you don’t know enough about Picasso to be quoting him anyway. trot out that tired Picasso quote about how good artists borrow and great artists steal. having your artwork stolen is hugely disrespectful and really sucks. say “imitation is the greatest form of flattery.” getting paid for your artwork is the greatest form of flattery. "whatever forever" has a registered copyright and is also the illustration stolen from me most often. even assuming that all original works aren’t BY LAW immediately and automatically protected by copyright (which they are, at least in the US), having a registered copyright will do literally fuck all to keep companies from stealing artwork if they feel like it. say that if we copyrighted things it wouldn’t be an issue. people who are already stealing art don’t give a shit about a watermark. subtler watermarks and artist signatures are often edited out, and sometimes even straight up left in the image (the BEST BUDS shirt on Dolls Kill recently is a good example - my signature is literally printed on the shirt). large watermarks greatly decrease a work’s rebloggability, and the internet is a double edged sword - even though reblogs are what inevitably gets our work stolen, we still need our work to be rebloggable in order to get recognition and build a fanbase. suggest that watermarks would solve the problem. Hey friends! here is a helpful primer on how to react when your artist friends have their art plagiarized for profit.
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