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Bundles with stolen designs

April 3, 2021

What often happens: someone steals my designs and designs from other artists, then bundles them together, and then sells those bundles for pennies on Etsy, eBay, Creative Fabrica, etc. People buy those bundles and try to list designs from the bundles on sites like TeePublic, or Redbubble, or Amazon. Then, I, or my lawyer, have…

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“We are doing you a favor”

March 9, 2021

There’s a curious thing happening with some of the thieves. It goes like this: my lawyer sends letters asking the illegal sellers to cease infringing on my copyright and pay me compensation. Some pay, some try to negotiate, some will be sued. But often, we receive the following kind of response: “We haven’s sold any…

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I hired a law firm (Update #2)

February 24, 2021

One thing that’s been on my mind recently is this whole situation with illegal sellers. In December, I hired a lawyer and we sent requests to 19 people to stop selling my designs and pay me compensation. Recently, we’ve sent requests to 17 more people. But I’ve already found more. The most stolen one is:…

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Adventures in Crime Fighting

January 16, 2021

My blog is becoming monothematic lately. I’ve been spending much of my time dealing with people who steal my designs and sell them as their own, and so I mostly write about that. Two days ago, I reported listings with my art to Amazon. They acted on it immediately and removed the listings. A few…

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Artists and lawyers

January 14, 2021

I hired a law firm a month ago. I wrote about it here and here. On Monday, I spent two hours at a notary public office authenticating another bunch of screenshots of websites where my design was sold illegally. It will be used in court. I thought it was unusual to sue someone over the…

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How to protect your art

January 10, 2021

If you create designs and submit them to online stores like Redbubble or Teepublic, you will soon find out that there are a lot of thieves. They will steal your designs and try to sell them in their own stores. Luckily, there’s an easy way to deal with them. You have to send a Notice…

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I hired a law firm (Update #1)

December 30, 2020

Two weeks ago, I wrote that I had hired a law firm to help me fight illegal sellers of my design “Not Today”. Time for an update. For a start, we sent requests to 19 sellers to stop selling my design and to pay me a small compensation. Of those 19 sellers: 18 sellers removed…

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I hired a law firm

December 18, 2020

I never thought I would need a lawyer. I wrote previously about my most popular design. Unfortunately, a lot of people steal it and sell it in their stores. Reporting all those places where it’s for sale takes a lot of time, and it never brings me any compensation. This time is going to be…

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