How To Stop Art Theft | How To Protect Your Artwork Online

How To Stop Art Theft and How To Protect Your Artwork Online. Many times art thieves get away with taking an artist's work and cashing in. This video gives you ideas on how to protect your work online from art theft.
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[@RetroSonya]

As an artist, this has always been a concern for me. Thank you for the advice.

[@TonyJeffers]

Your welcome!

[@kayceewhite]

I haven’t been back on social media (aside from KZbin) since 2018. There was a girl I knew a long time ago when I still had Facebook and Instagram, didn’t know she unfollowed me plus we lost touch. She popped up in my recommended for friends/ people you may know- I clicked on her profile and there was a post of her at an art show with my pictures off of Facebook printed out and she was selling them, She even made a website. I tried confronting her but obviously that was no help, she deleted the website and blocked me on everything. I want to get back out there as an artist life is short. Thank you for this video with helpful tips logistics!

[@BuckRogers2000]

Dang dude, you got it LOCKED IN!!! A great artist AND worthy KZbin contributor??!?!? Keep up the GREAT work!!

[@Rainjojo]

I’ve had my video edits reposted by someone else without my consent, and thought as a small creator that it was fine- but I received no credit and the person got more views. I was hesitant to post things like art, designs and video edits because I didn’t want to have my stuff stolen or used for profit after all the hard work and hours I’ve dedicated to make it unique. Now it’s a trend for people to steal art and use A.I. generators, and no way will I have my stuff stolen so easily lmao

[@MekeninzoUG]

Watch out, I'm going to focus on stealing all your stuff because of this comment

[@TaylorBrookspro]

Ugh it’s so frustrating because I’m so afraid of posting my work

[@TonyJeffers]

Yes I completely understand.

[@spookeasytv]

Don't post your work lol

[@josephmurdock5549]

I use the time lapse feature from clip studio when I post my work.

[@cnlicnli]

5:05 Tony, you’re mistaken: You help *legally PROVE* your artwork creation by quickly “registering” them with the US Copyright Office - that’s federal law! See this US copyright law citation: 17 USC § 410(c) (Registration of claim and issuance of certificate).

[@janesoncanvas8337]

Thank you so much!!

[@idesigncentral7855]

Tony Jeffers - maybe one way for artists to prevent their work form being stolen is to display only 1/2 or 1/4 of the art work by cutting out pieces of it & then stating the prospective buyer will be able to see the entire work after it is paid for So the artist will no longer display the entire image, just a preview of it at low resolution. Either that or stolen images will display a watermark thoughout them.

[@k.m.1986]

Thanks, Tony. Well structured and very helpful !

[@TonyJeffers]

Glad it helped!

[@TheHaHaEnigma]

Thanks for the helpful info!!!

[@TonyJeffers]

Glad it was helpful!

[@moajrtoons]

That’s why I don’t post high quality of my work on social media and on my website. I always post 50% quality of my work in jpeg which includes my watermark logo and my copyright information online. I understand that it makes my post less engaging but that’s how I protect my work from infringers. Thanks for sharing this video.

[@afamous1]

I would definitely watch!

[@LulluNatic]

Yesterday someone stole my entire post on Instagram and reposted it: same description, same hashtags, and every photo of my slide showing the different stages of my artwork. I reported it to Instagram. It's been 16 hours and I haven't got a feedback telling me they would take the photos down. Instagram doesn't give a shit about their users 😐

[@vive335]

Very informative

[@GooseGirl1037]

Well I’m not worried about my art being stolen…..my art style isn’t a very well beloved one even though I like it

[@cnlicnli]

*Contacting A Copyright Arts Attorney:* If your artwork is being exploited in the US by a non-Fair Use copyright infringer and you contact an intellectual property (copyright) attorney for legal assistance, his/her first, second, or third question to you will be, *“Did you timely register your copyright?” I hope you answer, “yes.”* If a copyright infringer is located in the US + is not judgement-proof (has money to pay for damages) + the infringing use does not fall within the scope of Fair Use or another affirmative defense + you have a timely copyright registration + and/or you have evidence that your watermark (and other artwork identifiers, aka CMI) was intentionally removed, covered, up, or changed + screen-captured or physical evidence of the infringement, there are *copyright litigators who will take your case on contingency (you don’t have to pay for attorney fees).*

[@GamingTranceSeer]

It's unrealistic to pay 35 dollars per art created.

[@cnlicnli]

@@GamingTranceSeer wrote, “It's unrealistic to pay 35 dollars per art created.” Your information on US copyright registration filing fees is incorrect. To register a single work will cost you either $45 or $65. However… *Good News:* Though it can be somewhat pricey to register many creative works one-at-a-time, and especially if you create a lot of works per month, the US Copyright Office (USCO) permits you and other artists to save money by *“group-registering”* similar works in one application at a discounted rate. For example, using the *“Group Registration of Unpublished Works” (GRUW)* on-line application, you can register from two to ten UN-published works in the same administrative class (like Visual Arts or Literary Works). So, if you’re a painter, illustrator, sculpture, and/or another visual artist, you could register up to ten of your “UN-published” artworks for a total filing fee of $85 *(or $8.50/per work!).* At this moment, the USCO is “proposing” a NEW on-line copyright registration application that would permit artists to group-register up to ten of their *PUBLISHED two-dimensional artworks* (including paintings, illustrations, sketches, collages, cartoons, character artwork, logos, commercial art, textile designs, and representational or abstract artwork) that are First-Published within a 30-day period. The filing fee has yet to be release, but could range from $65 or $85 (or about $8.50/per work!).* The USCO is seeking comments from artists and others about this new registration application. Write back if you’d like to receive a link to make your comments known to the US Copyright Office. In the end, I would argue that it’s “unrealistic” for creatives not to *timely* register (PROTECT!) their creative works with the US Copyright Office.

[@yvencia1150]

Thank you for sharing 🎨😊

[@TonyJeffers]

Glad I could help!

[@shawandahoward5648]

Thank you!!!I have a lot of great designs I am scared to create and get stolen.I am so glad you addressed the copyright fee.I was like that's gonna b a whole lot of money for each design.So should I low resolution when putting up a mockup on Etsy?

[@TonyJeffers]

Yes, You could definitely do the low resolution upload to keep most people from printing your designs. I'd default to Etsy upload requirements though they may require a certain resolution. Usually the people that steal designs online aren't around long so don't let them stop you.

[@shawandahoward5648]

@@TonyJeffers Thanks alot!

[@namelesspersonakaneonwaffles]

What if I want people to print quality versions of my art because I make coloring pages?

[@spookeasytv]

This is why I don't share anything

[@tinawyatt]

Really excellent tips! Thank you. Sub'd.

[@TonyJeffers]

Awesome, thank you!

[@Billyplayz_2017]

I drew my pfp by myself but then, some mf put MY artwork as THEIR own and they gave me no credit.

[@uo2265]

How the printing company print our tshirt right if the resolution is too low?

[@HoldmyApplejuice]

Thanks, someone stole my art and edited to be hateful and got more attention than i have ever done, i have some ideas!

[@grafixnetz]

Thanks for this video. Have you looked at Instagram's terms??? They can do as they will with whatever#s posted on their platform without informing you or asking your permission. Sure, the posted image is a lousy resolution if one gets a screenshot, but IGram has the original uploaded files too, and with care and good software, they can make decent copies to sell. I've started posting my 'good' work in an environment like a picture on a wall. How do we get IGram to play by the rules?

[@ms.pirate]

Any tips on hiding it within the artwork?

[@jennyone8829]

My art has been stolen. I need a lawyer. Thanks 🎈

[@arjanbogaers8003]

Recording dates of creating and posting. Warenmarkt can be taken out by certain programs, and low-res images can be downloaden by others and upscale. There are really very few full- proof preventative methode, u less you spend lotsa money. Including logo's is good.

[@cnlicnli]

@arjanbogaers8003 wrote, Recording dates of creating and posting.” There’s a far better way of recording dates when the artwork was created and published: “Timely” (quickly) register your artworks with the US Copyright Office (USCO). US artists, including international creatives who are licensing/selling their works in the US, *“presumptively prove” (via prima-facie evidence)* their copyright creation, copyright ownership claims, and copyright VALIDITY by timely registering their works with the US Copyright Office (USCO) - that’s their official US government date-stamp proof of their copyright authorship. See 17 USC § 410 (Registration of claim and issuance of certificate). The USCO will vet/examine the artwork: If it’s original to the artist, includes some creative expression, and fits within the scope of US copyright subject matter, the USCO will mail the copyright owner/artist a *“Certificate of Registration.”* With this presumptive-proof (Certificate) in-hand, copyright infringers will have the burden to disprove the artist’s copyright validity, and that’s difficult to do, especially if the artist was honest in filling out the copyright registration application. @arjanbogaers8003 wrote, “Warenmarkt [watermarks] can be taken out by certain programs, and low-res images can be downloaden by others and upscale. There are really very few full- proof preventative methode, u less you spend lotsa money. Including logo's is good.” Keep this legal point in mind: Per 17 USC §§ 1202-1203 (part of the DMCA), US-based copyright infringers who KNOWINGLY/INTENTIONALLY remove, cover-up, or change a watermark, logo, copyright attribution, artist’s name, URL, social media handle, metadata, and/or other *“Copyright Management Information (CMI)”* with AI, Photoshop, or any editing software to hide their copyright infringements or induce others to infringed can be liable for the artist’s actual damages and the infringer’s disgorged profits OR US$2,500 to US$25,000 in statutory damages PLUS attorney fees PLUS legal costs (at the court’s discretion). Removing or modifying CMI can suggest WILLFUL copyright infringement to a US federal judge. If the artwork was timely registered with the USCO, the artist may have two causes of action against the infringer: Copyright infringement + CMI violation (max. statutory damages at US$175,000). *Copyright attorney, Andrew D. Epstein, writes, “We recommend always attaching a watermark or other copyright management information [CMI] to all works that you distribute. Although you do not need to have a copyright registration to recover under the DMCA [CMI], we always recommend [timely] registering your photographs [artworks] with the Copyright Office to be able to qualify for maximum awards for copyright infringement ($750 to $150,000 per infringement, plus costs and attorney’s fees)…”*

[@alexHandle476]

U can put stickers and stuff on video tho to hide the watermarks ..

[@TonyJeffers]

wow so true.. 0.0

[@mindhealsbody-soul]

Screenshots capture videos and it can still be used…any suggestions?

[@jonbrumbaugh332]

Resolution won't help. AI upscalers are a thing

[@cnlicnli]

4:35 *Copyright Protection:* If you’re displaying, sharing/distributing, licensing, and/or selling your artwork, they need to be *“timely”* (quickly) registered with the US Copyright Office to be legally and best protected. Timely copyright registration of your artworks really, really counts! Don’t believe me? *Joshua Kaufman, a Washington, DC copyright attorney litigator, sums up copyright registration in the first 20-seconds of his KZbin video.* He also addresses the economics of NOT timely registering your creative works: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXOyfJ6oocqMabs

[@moumoun7]

Thanks for the link. very helpful. And you can register one piece or a whole collection of images for the same fee.

[@MentalPistol]

That's false information that you gave about U.S. Copyright. Obviously there is an image attached to the copyright, otherwise what would be the point? Take it from someone that has registered artworks. with the USCO.

[@RealEstateDreaming.]

It is $35 per registration. You can register alot at a time

[@cnlicnli]

@RealEstateDreaming wrote, “It is $35 per registration. You can register alot at a time” Your information is dated. In general, you can only register one work per registration application. As of March 2024, and if you qualify, you can register one un-/published creative work via $45 on-line “Single Application” (also known as *One Work by One Author)* or the $65 on-line “Standard Application.” To save money on copyright registration filing fees, you can “group-register” from two to ten *UN-published* works (from the same category, like visual artworks) in one $85 on-line “Group Registration of Unpublished Works” (GRUW) application. All works MUST be UN-published! Photographers can group-register in one $55 on-line registration application from 2 to 750 photographs. There are specific registration applications to group-register blogs & music for $65.

[@BeIlG]

artstation is trash for stolen art. The internet is filled with art station account art that easily was stolen.

[@Kim88824]

My Art is trash so I don't have to worry about that.

[@timromo2541]

To all Artists around the world be aware your copyrighted art has been used in the data sets to train these AI programmes and AI company will use your art (copyright or not) to replace you. the music industry refused to let the AI use their copyrighted music but it has already happened for visual art. And now artists and non-artists are training the Ai on the best prompts.

[@sprinkles795]

I have tons of copyrighted content but if ai can just do with it what it will. Then what do I do? Should I hope to get really big and go through a big publishing house and music industry because they protect their artists? The thing is I was planning to self-publish. Is that the only way I can be protected even though I have a copyright?

[@rainieday9474]

You legally can’t copywritten when it’s done by AI My art is being copied and i don’t post it! Tell me how that happened? Its really pissing me off and my art is not done on a computer

[@TonyJeffers]

Yeah AI has definitely changed thing for artists, content creator, blog writers and animators.

[@vive335]

@@TonyJeffersthat sucks

[@kammariamadourie974]

What About Music I had My Music Stolen My Phone Was Pinged By The Police When I Was A Minor And I Use To Freestyle A lot So One Day I Noticed My Freestyle On The Radio Just Stolen What Should I Do?

[@spookeasytv]

The only self made art I post is art I don't care about lol. I just use it to build a community then invite my followers to real events...

[@MekeninzoUG]

Hah, I'm in your base stealing your artwork. This advice is terrible. If you want to post the entire process of making the art what's to stop someone from stealing the entire process? Would be far better proof if you kept local files of the process that no one else has. Upload low res: Because nobody can increase resolution and fix distortion. (I do this all the time for thumbnails) Best idea is to ruin your images with a water mark so they look horrible so nobody wants them anyway.

[@roxann.]

Run your art through Nightshade. It poisons the Ai trying to take your work.

[@MekeninzoUG]

@@roxann. Obviously AI designers will find a way around that

[@boring8201]

@@MekeninzoUG I hate ai so much for that ai art shouldn't be allowed😭

[@MekeninzoUG]

@@boring8201 AI is a reality and it's only going to improve from here on out. Hating it isn't going to change much of anything.

[@boring8201]

@@MekeninzoUG They copyright other artist without artists Ai art would be trash artist shouldn't have to worry about a ai copying other peoples art without their permission.

[@cnlicnli]

0:50 *How To Prove You Created Your Artwork:* FYI: The *US copyright registration system* is very much a “vetting process” that helps *AUTHENTICATE* your artwork creation and validity. By quickly *“registering”* your artworks with the *US Copyright Office* (www.copyright.gov), you’re STATUTORILY granted *“presumptive legal proof” (prima facie evidence)* that you created/originated your artwork and own its corresponding copyright. In addition, all facts/information you included in your copyright registration application (who’s the copyright author/creator, claimant, year of creation, year of first-publication, etc.) will be deemed valid, unless disproved: See this legal citation 17 USC § 410(c): Registration of claim and issuance of certificate). It’s NOT necessarily about having a RAW or original file or a moving video of the progression of your artwork that proves your creation. Rather your issued (mailed) copyright *“Certificate of Registration”* will include your *“effective date of registration,”* the United States government’s *OFFICIAL date stamp* of your registered copyright claim. You can fake when and where you posted (created) your work. If you create a fake US copyright Certification of Registration or you knowingly include fake information that is material, your subject to a *CRIMINAL FINE* up to $2,500. See 17 U.S. Code § 506(c)(d)(e) (Criminal offenses). So, when someone challenges the creation of my artwork, I just show them my issued-copyright Certificate of Registration (its registration number) -- that’s my United States government *LEGAL PROOF* of my copyright creation & copyright ownership claims! All other date-stamping procedures may not be legally enforceable in federal court.