Alright, apparently there's some serious art-theft going on directly out of this community; I just thought I'd give y'all the heads-up (and if you'd rather not know, then go ahead and delete this post, it doesn't matter to me ^^).
Anyway, I was Cher-forum-browsing the other night and noticed a signature that looked very familiar... it was composed of Cher LJ icons, and two of the four displayed were mine, with credit given to someone else underneath!
Needless to say, I was a little flustered, so I sent the chick a PM calmly asking what the deal was. She was very sweet about it, and pointed me in the direction of the Xanga site she said they were being distributed from. Looking over it, I'm noticing more things may be stolen than just the icons, but they're not mine so I can't be certain (and I have enough to deal with, anyway...).
All I know is that a few pages back, there was a post of 15 icons he was "sharing", and nine of those were mine, directly nicked from CherDesigns (because that's the only place I've offered most of them as of yet).
I'm just incredibly flustered right now, I don't really know how to handle it. I'm used to just being able to send a PM their way and get it straightened out, but I've never had my stuff
deliberately stolen, much less
redistributed (!!!) before. I guess this'll be a learning experience. -sigh- And I don't have a Xanga anyway, or I'd comment on his a few times and find out what's up.
So here's the address to the icon post itself:
http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=cslbafan520&tab=weblogs&uid=211322471Other than that, I'm at a loss. I don't really know what to do. Help is greatly appreciated. In a way I'm flattered (if I was gonna steal something, I'd steal something better, haha) but mostly I just feel... I don't know, violated. Well, whatever. I've spent enough time on this tonight, so I think I'm just gonna go give my homework a little attention. Gah.