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Art stolen and sold at Japan Expo - Update

Journal Entry: Thu Jul 7, 2011, 4:24 PM









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Everything is working out now :). I got a note from ~Top50 who informed me that one of the sellers sent him this email:

I have investigate the issue you told me last week. I am 100% confirmed that those Chinese manufacturers downloaded these 2 art images on-line since what these 2 artists drew are we so call fan art not original art. I think that is the reason why these manufacturers think it is OK to copy them. I can promise you that everybody in the convention who sell any products based on these 2 images has no idea what is going on out there. I think our thinking is it is not exact from the anime series Black Shooter Star. Maybe, the manufacturers just created the products have those images designed by their own artists.

The following is which I have been doing:

1. Notify all my dealer friends not to sell any types of products having these 2 images. So far, everybody I know is very much agreeing with me except MangaX.

2. I have contacted my source in China that don't even bother to sell me anything like that in the future since I will not buy it. I have educate them that copying the fan art is not Ok either. And, I will carefully check all of the images on the poster purchase from now on. I will stop any similar situation happening again.

3. I have already destroyed all of the posters which I think are related to their art works.

I will need your feedback.

Jimmy Chang
AniPopGam



and MangaX actually contacted me on skype, and we worked everything out :). They were very nice about everything and he also told me that he told his supplier to never sell our (me and kaoru-chan)'s artwork again, so hopefully this is all okay now.


Thank you everyone for their comforting words and for those who helped me contact japan Expo <3~ thanks so much :D:D:D



:iconkyara17: showed me the pictures she took at the convention in Paris, France.
Something like this has never happened before! I'm really not sure what to do right now other than to email Japan Expo. I did post this picture in total-manga.com (which is a french anime/manga site), so if anyone goes on there, maybe you could help me ask around?

If you look closely at the photos, you can even see my watermark on the picture :(
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It looks like there's a lot of fanart there. I'm sure they stole most of their artwork there anyways, so if there's other artists' stuff that got stolen, maybe

My original art here:


I'm not sure what to do @___@;;; I tried going on the forums of Total-manga to ask around, but everyone's french there and I feel if I talk in English, I'd just get ignored or something >__<;;; *cry*

Can anyone help me translate some things? I read a liiittle bit of French, but I have studied it before......enough to know that the grammar's extremely hard and that I failed at it. :(


help meeeee? ;___; *sob*

And before anyone says this, I know some say that "it's kind of an honor in a way that people steal your stuff", but it's really not. It's just really frustrating, especially because I'm not in France and I can't go hunt them down, and I don't have money for a lawyer, and i dont even know if a lawyer would help in this situation, because the original artwork is a fanart.

:(

Thanks everyone for your comforting words :hug:. and thanks to :iconc3cilia-l: who is helping me translate french!! <3<3






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:iconreaperunique:
Good to see it has been sorted out, AniPopGam is also visiting our first convention. We want to prevent this as well of course but it's pretty much impossible to check all the art and merchandise of every seller on our convention.
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~Falryu Jul 16, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
A lot of posters I see there are stolen. Some are from japanese artists from pixiv I believe.
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~lalami02 Jul 16, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
yay!! :hug: glad its solved now! =D

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~DudumSomnium Jul 15, 2011   Digital Artist
That's awesome, I'm glad things worked out. :)

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~DevilMayCry6 Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Thats a load of bull if you ask me! they at least should ask or whatever...

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*Herebellama Jul 15, 2011  Student General Artist
Ahh that's good news... :)

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=mio65 Jul 15, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I'm so glad everything worked out for you and everyone was so cooperative <:

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:icongloomy-haruka:
~Gloomy-Haruka Jul 15, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
LOL. I know what you mean on the two parts.xD
I hate it when people say I should be 'happy' when people steal from me.D:<
And....that my French is bad too.; n ;
It's so hard!D: The grammar is impossible. I'm not all that bad at it, but I'm still a noob at it. (Hence, why I can't get a god.:<)
Best bet is Google translator. I know that the translator messes up the grammer a bit.
But it works.xD Trust me, I used it for my whole essay last time!>: D
I just fixed up the grammer the best I could myself.
Anyway, I hope all works out!:3

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*Setea Jul 14, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Did you go to Anime Detour or Acen?

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