HOW TO PROTECT Your Digital Art From Being Stolen

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HOW TO PROTECT Your Digital Art From Being Stolen

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Күн бұрын

The world of digital artwork unfortunately includes digital thieves who copy vector files from platforms like Etsy and then either use them for their own projects, or bundle them together and sell them as their own art. I hate digital thieves and you should do everything possible to protect yourself from getting ripped off. In this video I have 3 tips on how you can deter thieves from stealing your artwork from platforms like Etsy.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Tip #1
02:43 Tip #2
05:01 Tip #3
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#digitaldesigns
#etsy

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@discopants68 2 жыл бұрын

I’m more concerned about thieves buying my digital files and reselling them, particularly public domain images that I’ve restored. How do I protect against that?

@ImmortalMomentsArt 2 жыл бұрын

You have that in your terms of use. if it's in your TOS, and you see someone selling your files you can take them to Small Claims court, or issue a DCMA, you tell the vendor platform and they can ban their store.

@thewalkingjuju 2 жыл бұрын

The issue I have with the small designs is once an SVG (Bitmap) is made it can be scaled without distortion so I totally agree with opting to use multiple ie watermark, mockup, and tags which cover a portion of the design. Any serious designer like myself will obviously take pride in and want to use their own work even if their design was inspired by another's example!

@madmommy 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic tips. I use light grey lines across my designs, but didn’t think about the mockup.

@wishcloudstudios 2 жыл бұрын

Dang that makes a lot more work. But people were always stealing my original graphics. Thanks for the tips!

@plutobeliever 2 жыл бұрын

There are a few con artists on Instagram who DM me to promote on their site and twice they simply screenshot my Instagram post image and reposted it on their Instagram acct. I DM to remove my images, they ignored me so reported them to Instagram, and my image was removed and their acct canceled.

@ms.pirate Жыл бұрын

This comment was 1 year ago, did it still work?

@kitnewlin3068 10 ай бұрын

This was awesome!!! So So Helpful! Thanks a bunch!!!

@ifeelfantastic8956 Жыл бұрын

In a nutshell you'll never be able to stop thiefs from stealing your work. Thank you.

@JuleSan_jk 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you for the tips & Happy new Year!!

@55Ramius 2 жыл бұрын

I also would be interested in the answer to Steve Seidlers question below. Is there anything a person can do once somebody buys the digital files?

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

It's a good question, let me see what I can come up with!

@LiniousRHoliday 2 жыл бұрын

Great info. Thank you for sharing.

@cacevedo07 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you so much for your videos.

@BonnieLeeTexGirl 2 жыл бұрын

Great tips! Thanks!

@jamesharris37 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JO86666 11 ай бұрын

Can people copy and paste colored digital prints? Should I watermark those too? Thanks

@craftystax 11 ай бұрын

I would say pretty much anything online is at least in theory able to be copied (with varying degrees of resolution). Sometimes even watermarking a tiny piece will help!

@jamesharris37 2 жыл бұрын

On my Creative Fabrica dashboard, it says to create a Behance page and to add my favorite products. How can I prevent thieves from stealing my art on Behance? Should I add the same thumbnails that I have on Creative Fabrica to Behance?

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

For Behance, I would just add in a watermark right over your images - the purpose of the Behance page is to show off your work so a watermark won't negative impact that.

@1dulceritmo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@annapowell3123 2 жыл бұрын

How does one watermark a thumbnail? Do I take out the mockup I made and watermark it and add it back in? I'm confused with pod items. Most of the mock ups I use are within the Printify site. I have alot of unique photos on products and are going to start adding in large wall art.

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

Hey there-the easiest method (at least for me) is to place the watermark in whatever program you are using to make the thumbnail. So if you are creating your thumbnail using Photoshop, you would put the watermark in Photoshop. I'm not sure if Printify has their own watermarking but if you use graphic design software and are creating your own thumbnails, adding them in during the thumbnail is pretty easy.

@Anaturalheart 2 жыл бұрын

Would you also recommend doing these for mock up’s for digital & printable planners?

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

I think digital planners and printables is a great niche (there are lots of opportunities there)! Absolutely!

@ms.pirate Жыл бұрын

Will these tips work for traditional art, thats scanned and uploaded?

@craftystax Жыл бұрын

I would think so - the idea here is to protect your hard work whether it is digitally created or traditional!

@stacysteele2674 2 жыл бұрын

My question is "When the customer purchases it, how do upload the image so the watermark does not print?"

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

You put your watermark on the thumbnail (which is what everyone can see). The actual purchased digital files are in a zip folder that is purchased.

@stacysteele2674 2 жыл бұрын

@@craftystax Thank you!!! Love your videos

@mrspeedy5671 2 жыл бұрын

How to legally copyright our svg files as a bundle?

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

Legally, you have copyright the instant that you create a piece of original artwork. However, you can register the copyright as well (it would depend on what country you are in, like for example I live in Canada so I would register the copyright here: www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/wr03915.html)

@TheBotLord 2 жыл бұрын

Which website I can put copyright to my digital art

@craftystax 2 жыл бұрын

Your digital art already has copyright the moment you create it. However, if you want to register the copyright, you can certainly do so (just google "register copyright" and then the name of your country). Each country has its own copyright office. Hope that helps!