An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
hope you don’t mind me adding some more info :’D
Many websites have those complaint forms you need to fill out to submit DMCA notice. Here are some of them:
You sure have seenthis post. It has spread like wildfire over the past few days so I doubt there is any artist out there who hasn’t seen it. But even if you didn’t, you should read on because I’m about to tell you a handy little thing that can help you to protect your art from such assholes as the anon who submitted this bullcrap, as well as art thieves in general.
The magic word is Metadata.
Metadata is like an invisible signature that is embeded into a file. It can contain all kinds of information, like Title, date, keywords for online seach engines, and copyright information. And the best thing is, since this information is “hidden” in the code of your picture, it’s hard to remove it.
There is a nice basic tutorial on how to add Metadata, or “additional file information” to your images in photoshop. It’s really, really easy so check it out!
I’m not sure if you can do the same with any other art program. If you know how to do this in other programs / can confirm that it works the same way there, please tell me so I can add the information to this post.
Adding the Metadata will not stop idiots from taking and reposting your art. It also won’t make them stop editing out your signature. It WILL however, help you prove that you are the original artist whenever you have to. Always remember my friends. You, the artist, are protected by law. No one has the right to take your intellectual property and hard work and repost, use or edit it without your permission. Ever.
art thief: well how can you prove its yours??
me: /opens metadata
I spread the word as it is important to all artist who ever suffered from art thieving or so.
You guys, metadata is super important, you guys. In an everday and legal sense. People legitimately look at and rely on metadata to know the basic, but important bits of information about a digital product (paintings, photographs, exe files, etc.), ESPECIALLY the source.
They got in trouble for illegally not paying royalty money to Tokyo TV for Yu-Gi-Oh, and their legal troubles kept compounding until they went bankrupt.
Oh
Yugioh sent 4-kids to the shadow realm
IT’S TIME FOR B-B-B-B–B-B-B-B-B-BANKRUPTCY
That’s not even where the story ends- When 4Kids Entertainment filed for bankruptcy in 2012, Konami bought their anime licensing and production arm, re-branded it as 4K Media Inc., and now literally all they do is manage the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise in America for Konami.
Seriously! If you think the hetalia fandom is dying, consider the following:
Follow artists and writers
REBLOG from artists and writers (likes don’t spread their work! That’s why you don’t see it and think the fandom is dying!)
Send questions to ask blogs
Engage with people doing those “send me a ship/character” things
Talk about hetalia on your blog. What ships do you like? Did a situation you were in recently remind you of a certain character? Read a good fic recently?
Make your own content
Create a Hetalia exclusive sideblog to reblog all your hetalia stuff to (claiming to be a hetalia blog and only reblogging unrelated memes, cats, and sj stuff doesn’t really make you a hetalia blog!)
As most of you know, PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) produces lots of sexist, racist, fatphobic, and even ableist ads. Their ideologies match, unfortunately. They are incredibly unreasonable, too, and they effectively want to remove companion animals from human contact entirely.
Members of PETA have done the following to me.
Attempted to take my service dog’s leash
Threatened to take him away
Sent me death threats
Threatened to euthanize him out of “mercy”
Claimed that I am a “slavedriver” and “active participant in the speciesist h*l*caust” (Ah yes, please tell the romani-german-native girl that she’s basically a Nazi. Good idea.)
Left threatening voicemails on my phone.
Scared me so badly that I had to move house at one point
Grabbed my service dog
Tried to pry my hand off of my service dog’s harness
Threw paint on a faux fur-lined coat I was wearing (the paint got matted in my hair to the point where I had to shave my head)
Speaks openly on their hatred for service dog handlers.
Adding:
Their “Adoption” services are a complete lie. Do not bring an animal to a PETA facility or allow PETA volunteers or employees to take an animal. THEY WILL KILL IT.
Their own documentation shows that they euthanize approximately 90 - 97% of all animals they take in, on a yearly basis. This includes everything from seriously injured/ill animals, to healthy puppies and kittens.
They support Breed Specific Legislation, and call for the mass extermination of all “Pit Bull-type dogs”.
if there is anyone out there who doesn’t know this - this is really important. PETA kills and terrorizes animals. They do so for their own propaganda and in turn, profit. There is nothing ethical about their treatment of animals let alone other human beings.
Their position is, supposedly, that animals are equal to humans and as such use really ableist, racist, and wildly inappropriate metaphors that undermine real human oppression and suffering. Often just for shock value. If they applied their principle, then they are basically saying that mentally ill or struggling and homeless humans should be put to death on mass.
In addition to all of the above, they also promote the idea that dairy products cause autism.
Plus, they harassed Steve Irwin’s family while they were grieving his death.
They’re pretty terrible.
The Humane Society of the United States and the SPCA are where it’s at, if you want broad, effective, and ethical animal rights organizations on a national scale, though you can be really effective seeking out your local no-kill shelter or wildlife refuge.
PETA is a joke and the whole organization disgusts me. Reading this post just made me despise them even more.
Here’s some more ‘fun’ facts:
They ENCOURAGE shelters to be ‘kill’ instead of no kill. and send those shelters that kill gift baskets every year.
They SUPPORT killing pitbulls and pit mixes.
They make claims ‘no kill’ shelters aid the problem of overpopulation of animals and why they can’t get homes.
They want to end fostering animals.
They falsify information. In their videos of what they claim ‘goes on in *insert whatever the video is about here*’ sure, it’s real footage BUT that’s not the average facility/treatment/whatever. THEY TAKE THE WORST OF THE WORST and most of the time what you see in the video are rare conditions and claim that’s how every single place is.
They wanted companies that package hotdogs to have them put a warning that says hotdogs can cause cancer on the label.
The only animals they seem to actually care about are chickens. PETA workers have been caught stealing chickens from small farms, factory farms, even places like Perdue to ‘save’ them. They have a sanctuary for ‘abused’ farm animals.
A truck transporting chickens crashed in North Whales on a highway and PETA is trying to force them to put a memorial right where the crash was for the death of those chickens.
They are a bunch of fucked up people. If you want to support an animal rights group, I highly recommend the humane society.
As silly as this is, I think it would be fucking awesome if someone made PETA’s headquarters a gym and pokestop in pokemon go. Especially, since PETA claims you’re not allowed to play it in their building.
-Mod
Reblogging because edit:
Your local Humane society I meant to put not the Humane Society. But I’m sure the SPCA and HS do good too.
And I just found out PETA hosts chicken adoption events. What the heck PETA?!
Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they’re lobbying the FCC and Congress to end net neutrality. Why? It’s simple: if they win the power to slow sites down, they can bully any site into paying millions to escape the “slow lane.” This would amount to a tax on every sector of the American economy. Every site would cost more, since they’d all have to pay big cable. Worse, it would extinguish the startups and independent voices who can’t afford to pay. If we lose net neutrality, the Internet will never be the same.
Ferrai has this bullshit agreement that if you buy one of their cars new off the lot, you have to sign a contract saying you basically don’t own the car and have to uphold their brand standards with it.
It’s sets a startling example of not owning something despite buying it and the court needs to use this as a chance to strike it down as unethical.
This shit again? And I thought it was bad enough with ford and john deer telling farmers they didn’t own the tractors they bought from them….
Yeah, they have this really unethical clause in the purchase contract you can’t modify the car or do anything with it that they’d consider “unbecoming of the brand”, which is why they were able file this suit.
It seems kind of bizarre at first until you realize how horrifying that is in the age of “do you own what you buy?” being a huge a debate (especially in tech).
This is pretty much Ferrari’s philosophy from the start, they are extremely prideful of their cars like if they were made from God’s hands or something.
They are very snobby, infact the owner of Ferrari doesn’t like the people who buy their cars since because they are bought for “status”.
They also never test their cars on public tracks in comparison with other racing cars like when they wanted to test out the Porche 918 Spyder vs The McLaren P1 vs LaFerrari. Take a guess who bailed out on the performance test.
Just an update
Lambo are the perfect people to jump in on this because they make insane cars and they are never above clowning them up because Lambo are all about THE DRAMA ™
It’s worth noting that Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company originally only made tractors. His company became successful and at some point he bought a Ferrari, but had a complaint with the car. He ended up taking this complaint to Enzo Ferrari, himself, who told the man he did not take advice from a mere tractor maker. Four months later the first Lamborghini sports was birthed out of pure spite. I’d like to this somewhere he’s enjoying this immensely.
Two years ago Amal, an American citizen (you may recognize her from Tumblr a while back), was taken overseas to Iraq. Her family secretly booked a one-way ticket; they lied about it being a vacation. They had a house built, and it is just her and her father, who won’t let her go back home. They also coerced her to sign documents in Arabic, which she couldn’t read, that relinquishes all of her money to abusive family members.
She has been contacting the U.S Embassy almost every day for the past year. They make constant excuses as to why they can’t help her. Her family and relatives back home have been fed lies by her controlling father, and refuse to help her. She does not have two more years to wait.
Please help her forego the excruciating, fruitless wait of the Embassy’s dangling promises. What your money will go first and foremost towards:
plane ticket
lawyers (possibly both US & Iraqi)
deposit and rent for housing while she readjusts
smaller things like groceries, therapy, a bed, transportation costs, clothes, etc
My roommate and I are offering her a place to stay when she gets back to America, but our resources are limited. If all my followers donate ONE SINGLE SOLITARY DOLLAR she would meet her goal. Youcaring is paypal supported.If you have another means of donating, contact me personally.
