On September 29 nrrrdy_grrrl reported that demon48180's image had been appropriated by Kenjisan-23 in their work 'Chill Out Dean' and posted to Deviant Art.

Warning: these images are not safe for work.

demon48180's image: here

Kenjisan-23's image: 'Chill Out Dean'

Close examination of the two images shows that demon48180's image has been resized onto a dark vector background before filters ( Read more... )

Though I love Supernatural fan art by both, I realized recently that Kenjisan-23 stole and altered an adult photomanip originally created by Demon48180.

Here is Demon's original image from his Livejournal; and here is the image that Kenjisan has posted in a DeviantArt gallery.

Kenjisan scaled Demon's work down, used a common softening filter to ( Read more... )

On June 18, 2012, redcirce reported that two pieces of Doctor Who fanart had been traced and put up for sale on Etsy. This piece by viria13 on deviantArt seems to have been turned into this piece on Etsy. And this piece by chaaar appears to have been repurposed as this piece on Etsy. Both pieces on Etsy are no longer available ( Read more... )

On April 30, 2012, reni_m reported that kristianabel22 had plagiarized a piece of fanart by adavidoff1 in the Merlin fandom. (See original report for screencaps and links.) In addition, the report includes screencaps of art based on another fan's photographs, as well as art based on others' manips. (Please be aware that the manips are NSFW and contain nudity ( Read more... )

On January 13th, writerdragonfly reported that that a fic of hers had been plagiarized at DeviantART. Though the story and account has since been removed, here is a screencap of it. The story is clearly plagiarised from the original with only a few minor changes ( Read more... )

On March 25, laniew1 reported that Fanfiction.Net user CherryRose11 had copied her Ringer fanfic Siobhan, Version 3.0. Unfortunately by the time the post was accepted through the queue, the apparent copy had been removed and there were no caches or screencaps. However a Google search on the remaining stories indicated there was still a case.

Life In Berk ( Read more... )

Recently, I got a review on a fanfiction I wrote in September. The reviewer said that my fic (which was part of a one-shot series) was plagiarized on deviantART.

My fic, which was written live over Google docs in front of a friend of mine (who beta read it), was published September 17th, 2011 on Fanfiction.net.

The plagiarized fic was published on ( Read more... )

I'd like to report the theft of both a story and an original character. The story theft was almost two years ago, but the character that has been stolen by the thief is still being used today in his fanfiction.

On deviantART, an author by the name of XGBlue stole a story concept, entire scenes, and a character from author colb-a-naterOriginal ( Read more... )

On May 27, hoshiko_2000 reported that Amourhetalia had plagiarized a number of original works of art by Hidekaz Himaruya on DeviantArt. The original post with screencaps can be found hereI contacted Amourhetalia but never received a reply. All but one of his/her works has been removed from DeviantArt pending their own investigation. It appears very clear from ( Read more... )

On November 3rd star_sailor13  reported a possible case of plagiarism by katelinmr . The original report can be found here. This case was unique for us as it dealt with art revolving around the Harry Potter fandom. As none of the current mods have an artistic background, we enlisted the help of a consultant for this specific report. Also, this was a difficult case as ( Read more... )