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As long as the artist supplies the information necessary, DMCA is the best way to go. When I report artwork, it's with a link to the original (usually over on deviantart) but it's still up to the owner of the artwork to send a takedown order. When I see those jerks stealing great art and getting lots of thumbs up for it - and no link, no request, and usually stolen from people who specifically ask not to repost their work - I *always* inform the original creator.
So... DMCA, if the art in question is yours, that's your right and your responsibility, no one else can do that.
"Naming and shaming" also isn't allowed on the site.
I guess in future I better water mark anything I make and upload it to DeviantArt or something prior to uploading it on Steam to avoid **** like this happening.
Yeah I understand what you mean, sueing someone for this does seem a bit wrong. I just wish that stuff like this wouldn't happen in the first place so I wouldn't even have to bother with this.
Not happening.
He already said this individual deleted his comment which means they don't give a **** and will pass of his artwork as their own without giving credit (which was their intention in the first place).
There's nothing he can do besides "upgrade" it or pray that the community will help get it pulled down (which I doubt). Why Valve allows this nonsense to happen in the first place is a mystery to m... oh wait, zero quality control and no safety for content creators.
Proof of publication prior to the offender's publication is typically a good way to start. A post to another site for example. That site will have records of when the piece was uploaded to their server so the offender would have to prove that they had it before your publication.
Even where they say they had the file on their computer they would have toe xplain how the hell you got it if they'd never published it in any way that can be proven.
This is why as an artist it's always a good idea to tag your work in some way. Most artists will slip the signature in somewhere and in a manner that is otherwise unapparent to the viewer. Like say hiding a black box with a scan of their siugnature in one frame of the animation.. FOr any animation running faster than 24 fps this is pretty much impossible for the human eye to pick up.
leading me to believe: the OP took that logo thingy, ploped it on a AE background effect, and claimed it as their own artwork.
This is why I realised that I can't do a DMCA thing after I read all of the terms. I really like that brand (have the hoodie with that design on it) and wanted to make a Steam Art work out of it. So, yeah, I technically do not own the logo so I don't have the rights to the Artwork, but what I was annoyed about in this case is that someone took the GIF I made with that drawing with out crediting or asking me or whatever. And it was not an AE background effect, I made it myself by layering with stock footage of a VHS tape being crushed.
To be clear, I don't plan to try to do anything about this because I can't call the GIF completely my creation, I guess, since I used someone else's logo.
Which can explain the silence of the suggestion to get a third party take down service if he was so worried about his identity being known.
People hate them at YouTube, but for legit reasons they are great (especially with website owners and site scrappers).
I don't like the idea of random people on the internet knowing my identity. And I had decided against doing the third party take down before I even considered that I didn't own the logo in the Art.