Massive art theft on Instagram?

[Bright_Glow]

I just came home from vacation yesterday and now buisy to catch up with the blogs RSS updates I'm following and just found this post: 

http://iamaleximusprime.tumblr.com/post/54625727399/massive-art-theft-on-instagram

I don't know if those arts really got up with or without the artists permisson but if they really gou up without perpisson than it is really disgusting art thefteven if the uploaders didn't ask money for the arts and or the OC-s.

[Eviecorn]

Thanks for the heads up!  Art theft is awful.

[kaoskat]

Thanks for letting us know!

[melodys_angel]

Thanks for the heads up <3

[Cadence]

Giving this a bump as I think one of the ponies on that person's instagram feed looks vaguely familiar-- (an Arena member's, perhaps?)-- though I'm not entirely sure.

It's good to be aware of this, thanks for the heads up!

[fingerpaints]

Art theft is always terrible, actual artists work hard to make a "final" product, and have a hard time actually making more than about 50c an hour for their efforts because people think it is too much for "just a picture".

I know how it feels myself, my own flesh and blood wanted to use my original, hand drawn, approximately 30 hour to ink drawing and claim it as her own for a university course, of course I told her where to go. She was uphill drawing a stick figure, how she thought she would get away with claiming some of my artwork as her own I do not know.

I would be absolutely gutted if someone was using my persona as their own too, I don't mind if someone has something similar, there are only so many colour schemes and the like out their that actually look good, but to just *take* it and use it as your own? No.