Stop.

Thank you for informing us.

Please be wary of liza_five_nights_at_freddys on Instagram. They have stolen multiple works from various artists. 

If you’re an Undertale artist, please take a look around their account. Submit a report or contact the user if you’d like your art to be taken down. Please do not harass or insult the user for their mistake.

This user on tumblr has posted quite a few works and reblogs from users that also repost. I think they speak Spanish but I’m not sure. But definitely check them out and the people they reblog from (I think it’s wonderful what you all are doing, keep up the great work!)

Every artists out there, please be wary of this user. It’s very unfortunate since most of the works being reposted were made by Korean artists. It’s even more unfortunate when this user only allowed messages from people they follow. It could’ve prevented them from being called out publicly. Oh well.

@gamersans87, please take down the works that are not yours or you will be reported. This is not a threat, merely a fact, my friend. 

Oh, I think I have seen a post about this multiple times. But since this was asked, and I refuse to be lazy about it, let me tell you my side of the opinion. 

Dear artists who are concerned about their works, please do put a signature on your art, your photos, anything that can be marked. Put your username, or names that you’re commonly known as, and in illegible and readable words so that international viewers can see and understand them.

Please don’t think your art is not worthy enough to be reposted. I’ve seen a lot of dipshits making unnecessary comments, videos, posts etc about ‘shitty’ art and if you at least want to be known by what you do, please mark them.

And to those thieves who constantly spitting ‘they should put a watermark/say so on their bio if they don’t want it to be reposted’, that is like saying you should’ve worn a condom if you don’t want the baby, humans shouldn’t have existed to prevent the destruction of flora and fauna, women should’ve worn skirt if they don’t want to be cat-called. That is the most stupidest statement I’ve ever heard, and I won’t deep too dig into it because I’m beginning to have headaches just thinking about it.

Hello! I found your post on the Internet about Imgrum. They should be consider illegal.

They reposted all my pictures without consent and I had to change MY NAME, MY WEBSITE’S NAME AND MY SOCIAL MEDIA’S NAMES to not be associated with these motherfuckers. I didn’t find any way to truly contact them. It’s been exhausting. I am the owner of all the images. I’m a professional photographer with 9 years of experience. Sometimes when I was in LA I modeled, and fucking Imgrum reposted all of those pictures.

Here are just some examples:

https://www.google.it/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgrum.net%2Fuser%2Fbaesoftheday_%2F1794222504%2F1048541708706850491_1794222504&psig=AFQjCNGWy4iuD_TF15sIaxnbO46jJfwCTw&ust=1475848125053958

https://www.google.it/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiRza_ur8bPAhXErxoKHUdpCrUQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgrum.net%2Fuser%2Frenee.moora.ferri%2F1042330954%2F1046907205196901573_1042330954&psig=AFQjCNGWy4iuD_TF15sIaxnbO46jJfwCTw&ust=1475848125053958

https://www.google.it/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjegPOIsMbPAhVDXhoKHUwxAQIQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgrum.net%2Fuser%2Frenee.moora.ferri%2F1042330954%2F1067503262217727153_1042330954&psig=AFQjCNGWy4iuD_TF15sIaxnbO46jJfwCTw&ust=1475848125053958

https://www.google.it/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiUtsKrsMbPAhXDOBQKHS1QAOgQjhwIBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imgrum.net%2Fuser%2Frenee.moora.ferri%2F1042330954%2F1086068502010195225_1042330954&psig=AFQjCNGWy4iuD_TF15sIaxnbO46jJfwCTw&ust=1475848125053958

I don’t know if you are gonna be able to see them. If not, just google my name: Renee Moora Ferri and see how many Imgrum pictures come up. It’s disgusting. Please give me great news and tell me there is a way to fight them!

Hello Renee. I’m very sorry for the late reply. I’ve been in college and my mods are very busy as well, so right now I’ll do my best to help you with your problem. 

Unfortunately, Imgrum is like a view page for Instagram. I’d tried my best to take a look on each of the photos you’ve sent to me, examining each of the options, settings, functions featured in Imgrum, but so far, the least I can do is to return page. 

But! Don’t get discourage. Since Imgrum is basically an online viewer for Instagram, you can easily find the user who infringed your works there, report them or contact the user. We even have a how to report with IG in our archives. Here’s the link to it. 

ProtectionYou know... It’d be nice if Toby Fox were to make a petition to take off all of the Undertale tags on large online webstores. It’ll really make my and the mods’ job so much easier. But that day’s have yet to come, so in the meantime, let’s suffer.

Unfortunately, you have to sign up in order to make a report, but fortunately, you can make a report yourself, even if you’re not the original creator. Just be sure to be specific and give the right information. Ask the original creator first before you jump right in and make a report. We don’t want to create any fuss.

1. Click on ‘Help’ where the arrow was pointing. After that, it’ll give you two options, but skip that and click on ‘Disputes & Reports’. It’ll bring you to the help page with two options for you to either ‘Open Dispute’ or ‘Submit a report’. Click on ‘Submit a report’.

2. Next, it’ll bring you to another page and you will be given 5 more options. Click on ‘IPR Protection’.

3. After clicking to submit a report, it’ll give you option to explain about your stolen work. Be sure to be specific and give them your legit email so they can contact you.

Hello everyone. It’s your admin here. Sorry for being dead for a while, and I’m sorry to inform you that I will be on hiatus for the next couple of months again, so I’ll try anything I can to help anyone at the time being. Now, I don’t want to bother you too much about apologies and unnecessary updates about my life nor the lives of the other mods, so let’s get right into the topic.

Let’s take a break from the witch-hunt and rages about the stolen works. I’d like to point out the shallow part of art thievery; that is reposting works and art thieves. I’ve been seeing confusion about reposters and art thieves but did you know that reposting is not really all that bad?

Reposting is a pretty vague area. It’s not really a black and white kind of topic, moreover people seemed to get confused about it. Reposting has good and bad sides.

A ‘good’ reposter would;

1. Ask for permission for reposting the content.

2. Credit the content properly (with links and directed source).

3. NOT taking credit for the work.

4. Show or provide evidences of the given permission (although this is optional, it can prevent future disputes and dramas)

A ‘bad’ reposter would;

1. Not ask for permission.

2. Not crediting a work properly. (’Credits to the owners’, ‘Not mine’, ‘Not by me’, ‘Source; G**gle/Unknown’ are not legit credits you ding dong)

3. Plagiarising a or multiple works.

4. Repost without any second thoughts about the creator whatsoever.

Now, to put it bluntly, art thieving is pretty much plagiarising a work that’s not yours and, as we all know it, is bad. Tracing, copying, stealing, eye-balling, plagiarising, reposting without permission or credits are all form of art thefts, and saying G**gle is a source is incorrect. It’s a search engine. Not someone’s account (unless it’s Google+).

Well, to tell the truth I thought this would've been a little obvious. But I guess other websites must have a different term.

Reblogging - a system where you can just blog the stuff that's already there without leaving behind the source.

Reposting - an action where you reupload a content into a certain website.

The difference between these two are whether there's a source on the stuff or not. Reposting can be considerable and just plain out bad. It is considerable because you can either ask for a permission before you reupload the content and linked to the source or reupload the content without permission but has given a proper linked source.

In the bad aspect of reposting is that you don't even link it, you reupload it without thinking about the artist's consent and the consequences, and just being blatantly disrespectful.

Question number 2;

You can post something that's related to art theft. Like write an article and post it in a form of a photo. Use your creativity to spread the word.