NOOOO STEALING! >_< (c) by ME!!!
 

I always sign my work, and add a link to my website as a watermark somewhere on the pic.

About theft.. thievery.. imposters, etc, well, it's hard to catch and stop them, as it is just something that happens. So I don't mind much if someone does steal my works, because I know that they don't gain anything from it and my skill does not decrease.

People who raise hell and etc on online art thieves are lulz XD.

About 'stealing' poses, etc, well.. its annoying but eventually they'll grow out of it XD.

However, I get really PISSED if someone tries to sell my works. I mean oi.. I'm poor enough as it is, and you're stealing from me?? Die die die!!

T_T thieves will sell anything if theres a chance it'll make money. Or idiots selling our pics as phone wallpapers.. etc. Bah!
Yeahh it'd suck to get OCs stolen and made into RP characters.. ick.

i don't think i've had my art stolen as of yet (cuz my art isn't great... XD )...

well, for most of my artwork , i usually put a signature and a (c) somewhere, but usually somewhere that can be easily erased... well, so far, i've mainly been drawing gaia avatars, so there isn't much to steal from... however, if it is a bigger commission, then i do leave an excessively big watermark saying char (c), art (c), and my DA site smack in the middle on top of the piccy if i plan on posting it anywhere. but i give a pretty clean copy to with just a small signature and (c) to the commissioner.

i don't really leave disclaimers unless i open a shop, then i put it in the rules, but i don't put it on my picture. i have a hard time enough trying to put my signature without feeling like i ruined the piccy. ^^;

since i'm not a great artist, if someone were to steal my art, i think i'll be flattered and pissed off at the same time. flattered cuz my art was worth stealing... pissed off cuz well, you know, i spent a lot of time on it. i never had a problem with art yet, but someone stole my layout before when i used to make websites ages ago... i think all i did was e-mail the person and ask him/her to stop using it. i don't really think i was mean or anything about it. (at least in my memory, i wasn't mean about it.) the person kindly took it off and everything was fine.

(an no one will ever copy my poses cuz i don't know how to draw poses... XD ) i'm not sure if it's considered plagiarism... i think it depends... if it's evident that they took a tracing paper and traced it and changed the hair style and color of the clothing... then yes... but if they were looking at it and drew it on their own, i'm not too sure how to consider that. because personally when i started to learn how to draw, i looked at small pictures of animes that i liked and just enlarged them. of course those are definitely under the category of fanart... but if the pose is similar but not traced, i'm not sure if i would consider it plagiarism. i guess it might be unless the person credited the first picture as a reference.

-Do you leave some sort of marking, link, or unique signature on your artworks?

yes, but nothing too hard to take off actually. Maybe because i don't really care or i havnt had the experience of how i would feel if someone stole my work. Because god knows who drew it~and you can always do more~

-Do you watermark your works? Excessively even?

isnt this the same question as last?XD..well just 1 signature..or sometimes typed on some. Some that i really like i would watermark~^^

-Do you leave little disclaimers not to steal your works?

hm..maybe sometimes i might have mentioned' just don't steal it..XD even tho i know no one would' sort of little things...mentioning it without really thinking or caring??

-Just how paranoid are you about others taking credit for your hardwork and talents?

if they are not selling it and making profit when i should have, i really don't care. like i said to the first question you know.
To my self, i always suck~

and i also agree with some of Melilot's points

-How do you interpret someone who draws their character in a pose EXACTLY like yours with the same expression, mannerisms, etc? Is that plagiarism?

well, if its not copied line to line, maybe just used as a reference, i would be honored. For i do the same, using other art as a reference to posts and such. But i would NEVER copy it exactly~{PS: - -why would you also copy expression?if so..then just say its a copied image...like those practices you do..master copy or something?i don't know how to say it properly in English..= =}

I've always been too lazy to do anything but sign my work normally with my name and kanji mark (which is also my name, lol, I'm Chinese., but people understand better when I say 'kanji').

I mean, I knowingly rsk putting my work online that it will get stolen, so I don't worry about it. The exposure's worth more than the occassional one or two people saying "hey I drew this" when they didn't. Actually, I wouldn't mind if someone didn't link back to me - it's only in the case they claim to be me that'd scare me. For example, Adele Sessler has a bloody stalker than goes aroudnto cons and pretends to be her and even calls herself Adelle Sessler... but like, if someone claims they did a piece of yours and obviously can't relplicate it... well, they're not gonna get very far, now will they?

Only people stealing my OC riles me up. That's sorta happened once. Someone took the pic JadedIce drew for me and used it for her RP character without credit (it was a b/w pic, though, and she like, changed his eye and hair color, lol). She bitched right back at me. But hey, I can draw and she can't, so like, I'm still better off, haha. I think the only reason it bothered me so much was cuz her character sucked - LOL. Fallen angel :p

fanart gets stolen more for obvious reasons. Not so much sstolen as shared, too. so does sexy girls, says jahichan.

That said, other than the Rivek thing, I've never had my work stolen. and that wasn't even really my work.

I never really put too much effort into watermarking~. I put my name and webpage...most of the time...so that random people seeing it can know who did and it where if they're interested.

Of course, my art gets stolen like whoah apparently from the number of emails, notes, PMs, etc. I get. (I think I fall into the category of not-so-well known artist...but has art that looks like effort was put in ^^; )

So maybe that's a bad idea TT;;.

I've never been able to make a larger watermark look good though T_T. And I'm lazy by the time I actually manage to finish a picture.

-Do you leave some sort of marking, link, or unique signature on your artworks?
When I do not forget, sometimes I slap "meririm" in a corner. Pixel art is mostly too small, though.
Resources and comics usually have a link to my sites somewhere, but that's in case people want to see more.

-Do you watermark your works? Excessively even?
Nope. Then of course, I've no talent, I'm not exactly expecting to get stolen.

-Do you leave little disclaimers not to steal your works?
It depends on what - my dolling site had this "do not claim as yours/do not direct link", but that's common on dolling sites. And people just do not listen.

-Just how paranoid are you about others taking credit for your hardwork and talents?
Actually, I'm not that concerned, though if it happens, I DO raise hell. Because I'm mean like that.

-How do you interpret someone who draws their character in a pose EXACTLY like yours with the same expression, mannerisms, etc? Is that plagiarism?
Unless it is traced, I'd say:"no", though I woudln't do that.
If the picture's colors, clothes etc are somehow similar, I'd reconsider.

I usually leave watermarks on fanarts, only because I don't understand why anyone would try to steal my original character art. I don't fear art theft that much, only because I'm a relatively unknown artist...so even if someone stole from me I would remain blissfully unaware. XD

I usually also leave a small signature on commissions too, just so people know who drew the art if they want some themselves P:

I always think to put some sort of watermark on my pictures since my signature is "Ari" and not my gaia/mene/DA username, but I always forget. ^^; I don't think people would steal my art, either.

I have seen my onigiri animation in a couple places, though. Most people remove it after I ask and the rest have credited me, though..

Yup yup O_O. I've seen that happen~.

There was an art thief on DA called Callista-chan. She actually got really popular on DA, too, for quite a while before she was finally caught. (On the front page a lot and stuff ^^;;; ). And so a couple of times some art thieves stole "her" art and she'd post and rant about it in her journals and stuff...and everyone would give her sympathy and the thieves would be banned..... :?

You know what the most ridiculous part was? She actually talked a LOT about art thieves in her journals! She even published an "interview" she had with an art theif O_O;;! She asked "the thief" a bunch of questions about why they stole, whether they felt guilty, etc. etc. The funny part about the interview was that it almost glorified the thief, talking about how clever and yet easily they changed the pictures and stuff O_O;. Seriously. We're pretty sure now that the thief she was interviewing was herself =_=".

Twism: Oh man, I remember when that went down. There were a lot of people when it first came out that couldn't believe someone would go to such lengths. Didn't she even post a journal at first claiming that the people who had found her out were horrible liars? And her really big fans were attacking the people that stated she was a thief at first too. It was messy.

I usually just sign my initials somewhere small into the work. It always annoyed my art teachers, especially my painting teacher. She'd force me to sign my work, despite having the hidden initial signature.

When my friend and I first started our site (in sore need of updating), she watermarked my images for me at my request. Then we both just nixed the idea. If they're going to steal it, they'll steal it. Even if they're selling your work, some websites are extremely difficult in getting someone to take the stolen work down. Some of the more popular artists have such a problem with it, I don't know how they maintain the energy, to be quite honest. :\ I don't worry about it anymore because I don't think anyone would want to steal my artwork. It's not the type that typically gets stolen. (laughs)

There was only one time a piece of mine was published in a school newspaper, without my knowledge. I actually was really annoyed about that, because the art they published was a self-portrait. I didn't want my ugly mug everywhere. 9_9

I'm also of the camp that no pose is truly unique/it's all been done before. If it's something obvious, like tracing, or repeated copying of one's work, I can see the problem. If they're just referencing the same resources and it looks similar, I don't see the problem.

I've noticed it a lot too, how mediocre artists are super uptight about marking the shit out of their works. Or people who sign "_____ @ DEVIANTART.COM" on all their pchat works. I think it's either a case of being uptight or having a huge ego like "I drew this, look at me! I want attention!!". It's one of my biggest sources of art-related irritation lol.

I honestly don't bother watermarking ANY of my art. At all. I don't really give a crap. I'm 99% sure nobody's going to steal from me, and the one time I had an "art theft" it was a girl copying my bust shots to create her own to sell as commissions. Well I was kind of "wtf" but I let it go since that's... how I learned.

I honestly don't care, but really awesome well-known artists like luc should of course be advised to watermark since art theft is much more likely for them XD

I just mark it where its super hard to take it out without making the picture look CRAPPEH xD
I sometimes forget though. But oh well, if they steal my work, Im gonna go moar then anal on em.