A very insulting situation

As I have mentioned on this blog multiple times, I have my work available in two places –

My Redbubble page: https://www.redbubble.com/people/guineapigsbooks/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent

My Threadless page:  – https://guineapigsandbooks.threadless.com/

And I have mentioned earlier this year that I have had several of my works stolen. Well, it’s become a bit of a plague I have to check on every few weeks. However, I’ve run into a new situation with Redbubble where I found and reported work of mine being stolen and THEY ARE NOT TAKING IT OFF THE THIEF’S PAGE!!! As you may be able to tell, this makes me angry.

I have reported stolen works to them before and had them taken down promptly, which is their policy and what’s supposed to happen. However, this time, that’s not happening. I have sent four takedown notices via their form or email thus far and all of them have included the information they are supposed to in addition to carefully worded non-consent statements because those are what is required for theft.

So, I have had tension headaches and stomach aches for the past several days because I cannot understand why taking down one person’s thievery is not happening. They say they take art theft seriously. They say. It’s not me who stole something and I’m not reporting it stolen without cause, it is my work, no one ever has permission to try to pass off my work as theirs or put it up on their pages anywhere for the selling of anything, especially not products I do not want my guinea pigs on, which of course all the thieves do… disgusting pieces of shit that they are.

The work in question is Guinea Pig Gothic Miffy, which is my queen painting of Murderface, which I just put up a post about on August 15th.

“I’m a stranger to my own soul.”

One of the reasons this twists my guts and hurts my head is that my work is about my actual pigs, my actual family of pigs. These are not random guineas. This is my little girl, Murderface, the pig that ended my moratorium of not having pigs because I was at universities getting too many degrees to be employable.

Here’s me and Murderface in the before time:

This is right after I got her. Me and little miss Miffy.

 

Here she is perched on my fist, a conqueror forever.

 

If Murderface was still alive, she would be murdering these thieves and slow takedown processes everywhere. Which brings me to another reason this bothers me so very much, it’s a violation of my honored dead.

I am hoping I will not have to send more takedown notices and it will be dealt with, but I will send one every single damn day until they take down the theft. I am in part creating this post because I couldn’t find much information about others having this exact problem where you followed the procedure and it wasn’t addressed and you weren’t asked for any further information. So, now there’s an account. Words like “prompt” and “swift” have meanings, but apparently not in this case.

 

By the way, the thief’s Redbubble username is LuciousFeil and he’s also stolen Rosemary Wells’ illustrations of Max and Ruby. What a dope is the nicest thing I can say and I am truly holding myself back from making comments on the theft page where they added a shitty green background that doesn’t match the color scheme or the origins of my painting because LuciousFeil does not know anything about my work they stole. It is very hard not to tell them I hope they get tertiary syphilis toot suite, especially as the takedown is delayed for unknown reasons.