Jonathan Bailey has recently posted an article on art theft on the popular upload-site Photobucket.com. The article can be found here: [link]

There are huge numbers of artworks stolen and published on photobucket without permission. Let's face it, it isn't really new, we've all seen it and tried to stop it. The problem is that now photobucket is selling prints of those stolen artworks, and it's easy to guess that no profit goes to the original artist. I found over 20 photos of mine on photobucket, using my usernames in the search bar alone (there are probably many more but with a different name), posted without permission, and of course I'm not getting any profit out of it.

To persuade photobucket into changing it's copyright policy, Jonathan has made a petition, which can be found here: [link] (scroll down to sign). Since there are a huge amount of artists from dA who's artworks have been illegally posted there, please take a minute and sign it!

And also, if you find your work posted without your permission on photobucket, please go here in order to have it removed: [link] (to check if your work is posted on photobucket without permission, type your different username(s) or name and see what the results of the search are).

And please, if it's not too much to ask, spread the word! We can only do this together, not as individuals.