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Community => City of Heroes => Topic started by: leteliin on May 27, 2012, 07:49:51 AM

Title: A little help here?
Post by: leteliin on May 27, 2012, 07:49:51 AM

I was directed to this site with the preface that someone had stolen a bunch of my photos off of DeviantArt and set up a fake account. I was looking on this individual's page for some way to report them, and when I couldn't manage to find such a thing I decided I might get a moderator's attention here.

Here's the link to her page:
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush

And I can produce evidence of my identity/that I am indeed the photographer/girl in those photos, if needed.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: TonyV on May 27, 2012, 10:04:44 PM

Which photos?  Also, can you please provide the DeviantArt page?  As you can hopefully understand, I'm reticent to delete photos without knowing that the claim of copying is legitimate.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: WanderingAries on May 28, 2012, 02:57:35 AM

TonyV, I think they're talking about these three:
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76369 (http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76369)
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76370 (http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76370)
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76379 (http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76379)
If you read the comments on the first picture, then you'll notice they mentioned that they didn't own the pictures, but thought they were pretty cool. I'm not sure what you'll need to know/do after this, but there is a "report" button for a Faces user. I'm not sure what it allows/looks like when logged out.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: Sekoia on May 28, 2012, 07:31:18 AM

I Googled on the username "leteliin" and found a Deviant Art user with the same name: http://let-eli-in.deviantart.com/

I also found a photo on Faces that's in that user's gallery:

http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76372
http://let-eli-in.deviantart.com/art/Lateralus-Pt-2-213643219?q=gallery%3Alet-eli-in%2F27542959&qo=59

So I'm pretty sure that's the Deviant Art user in question. I didn't try to cross-check any more, since there's a lot of photos in each gallery -- it'll be much easier and safer for leteliin to let us know which ones they are referring to.

I've sent the person a message on Deviant Art's website asking them to confirm that they're the person who posted the above (just to make sure that they aren't the same person as Prickerbush, in case it's a third party trying to grief). I'll post and confirm when I hear back from them.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: leteliin on May 28, 2012, 07:44:12 AM

Just replied to your DA message. As I said there, thank you SO much for taking the time to cross-check and help me out. I thoroughly appreciate it.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: leteliin on May 28, 2012, 07:46:03 AM

And as for which photos I am referring to, I mean ALL of them (hence why I'm so infuriated) with the exception of the drawn artwork. All of the photography is mine.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: Sekoia on May 28, 2012, 09:07:55 AM

I received the reply at Deviant Art's website, so I can confirm that leteliin here is the same as let-eli-in there.

I don't usually handle moderation or image removal for our Faces website so I am going to let TonyV handle that part so that I don't make any mistakes. I just wanted to help expedite the research/follow-up process so that it can be resolved more quickly. Thanks for your patience. :)

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: TonyV on May 28, 2012, 02:27:52 PM

I've deleted most of the photographs, left the user a private message telling them why, and warning them not to upload any more unauthorized pictures.

I wasn't able to validate one of the photographs from being yours and left it up:
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/Prickerbush/photo/76293

I've also deleted your comments to the user, which hadn't been read yet, including your comment to another user.  Even though the user was wrong in posting the photos, we also don't appreciate threats to any of our users.  If you have any more questions or comments, please contact me directly at tonyv@cohtitan.com, and I apologize for the unauthorized use of your photos.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: leteliin on May 28, 2012, 05:28:12 PM

It's all good; I acted out a bit too soon and too rashly before even coming to the moderators, and for that, I apologize. The photo with the Rubik's cube is of me, taken by my friend who is also a photographer and would hate to see her artwork being stolen as well. If you could also remove that photo that would be greatly appreciated. Again, I thank you all very sincerely for your time and help.

Title: Re: A little help here?
Post by: leteliin on May 29, 2012, 09:21:00 PM

Here: http://let-eli-in.deviantart.com/art/Oskar-s-Cube-201769283?q=gallery%3Alet-eli-in%2F27542959&qo=121