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So I'm sitting here in a fairly tired state and for some reason I chose to do a little wander through my sitemeter readings. And through a link that I find within those results I managed to find that someone has taken my artwork and posted it on their site.
I think they were trying to credit me properly, but they spelled my last name wrong, and called me Richard....
The one thing I noticed is that my watermark is not on any of my pieces that have been posted. And I've been making sure to do that on each piece that I post aside from the ones that I posted here on deviantart. Leads me to the thought that my artwork was taken by a screen grab and crop through this site. sigh.
So now what do I do? Do I send this person a message and ask him to provide proper credit on his site, and maybe a link to my page?
Christopher Chamberlain
Artist | Professional | Varied
Canada
I'm an artist - silly thought, right?
Current Residence: Canada Favourite genre of music: Music... Favourite photographer: Get back to you on that one... Favourite style of art: I just really love art Operating System: PC MP3 player of choice: Samsung Wallpaper of choice: my pics Favourite cartoon character: Marvin the Martian
Favorite visual artistMucha, Klimt, Kaluta, Neal Adams, (again, I could go on)Favorite moviesThere's a huge list but I'll narrow it down to Sci-FiFavorite bands / musical artistsGarbage, U2, Sam Roberts, Foo Fighters, I could go on ad nauseumFavorite writersNeil Gaiman, Robert E. HowardFavorite gamesDungeon!Favorite gaming platformNintendoTools of the TradePencils, pens, brushes, inks, everything and anythingOther InterestsDrawing, painting, working with my hands, and many, many others
First of all, this is my initial visit to your gallery, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I do not understand how in all these years I haven't run across your work. Your drawing style is sparing, sparkling, and clean, showing delightfully skill at cross-hatching and smoothing pencil work, with a fine color palette sensibility. It's really nice stuff, and I'm certainly going to return as often as I can.
Second, on the issue of art theft: if you believe you can document this act of thievery, report it immediately to dA and push for action. It's not acceptable. But on the issue of watermarking, you should know that none of the images you've posted are watermarked (at least not that I can see), so if you intended to have them that way then somehow either you or dA has let something slip. However, your signature is on every piece, and that's enough to establish copyright, even without a watermark of any kind. (Actually, you don't even need to sign the image to establish copyright, but in a court case you'd have to be able to show that your image is the original, based on date of submission, etc.)
dA should be exquisitely attuned to copyright issues; otherwise, no artist would post here. Contact them and see what they are going to do.
If the thief is not a dA artist with a dA gallery, then there's not much dA can do. Instead you'll need to contact the thief's URL administrator about the theft and get them involved in pulling the site because of copyright violation.
If it means enough to you--and you are very wealthy )since that what it takes--you should connect with an attorney and get a "cease and desist" letter sent.
This isn't fun, of course. Not at all. Theft of intellectual property happens all the time--and more now than ever, because digitizing makes it so easy to do. Posting on publicly accessible sites like dA simply ups the level of risk for artists, of course. You may need to do some intense and careful thinking about the benefits and risks of using these sites to share and promote your art. I hope you'll stay with it, though, since your work is so very good and brings so much pleasure to people like me.
But whatever you decide to do, I for one wish you the best!
Euphoric 
I really appreciate it and admire your work-very well done.
