Octopus Accessories - art thieves

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www.octopus-store.ro/
this is their store. They are Octopus Acessories 

This is their facebook page www.facebook.com/OctopusAccess…

They had my drawings printed and were selling necklaces with them. They also lied to me that they did not steal them and took them from from some deviant who supposedly stole them first.
They sent me this link to this deviant :iconxyqueen: but the drawings that belong to me were submitted 12 hours ago. So obviously this couldn't be true since Nijikon was over 12 hours ago, and they had them for sale since 3 days ago.
This girl is so shameless, she lied to my face! She made me feel bad about calling her out and "making a scene" in front of her booth. OMG! And i believed her, i could have had her kicked out of the convention on the spot! She made me apologize for making a scene in front of her booth :( So she stole my art, and i was the one who apologized.
THAT. IS. WRONG.

Wow, if thievery was a game, she would be the final boss :iconfacepalmplz:
well this info is public now. I hope this journal will apears whenever someone googles her shop.

They also seemed to have stolen the design of the octopus in their logo from :iconbriankesinger: 
look at their logo here 


www.facebook.com/OctopusAccess…
and look at this drawing here  Traveling with your octopus by BrianKesinger
pretty damn similar.
There is not one drop of originality in their designs. There is not one drop of shame.

The thing that bothers me is not the stealing, not the making money off of it, anyone makes mistakes, but it's the way they handled me at the convention, the lies, her attitude of OUTRAGE that i was making a scene and she was oh so damn innocent
People have stole my art before, on deviantart, on facebook, i always discuss with the first, and most of the time they apologize and simply add a link to my gallery, that's all i ask. I wasn't going to report her and have her booted out of Nijikon anyway if she owned to her mistake and not lie to me and have that attitude! I feel like a complete idiot for apologizing to her! 

:new:They have made a public apology to me:

www.facebook.com/OctopusAccess…

Please don't use curse words, no threats, no ugly words, no other drama, i did this so the drama ends. If you do it will reflect badly on me so please don't do that.

This is the translation of the apology:

:For Nijikon we prepared a series of necklaces with 3 characters from The Hobbit (Bilbo baggins, Legolas and Thranduil) because we didn't receive approval to use them, the images created by Yuuza (link to galery) which is the reason we retreated them immediately from being sold. With this occasion i am also presenting my apologies, and thank the author for bringing this to out attention."

I am satisfied with the apology although that does not erase these unpleasant memories and the lies they told me.

I am very happy that you care about my art and what has happened, and i know you were outraged too by what has happened. That's why i want you to see this apology too and know that at least some justice was served. 
I do not however want to see some shitstorm on that apology, if you're angry about what has happened, and want to vent about it, comment on this journal.

Thank you so much for your support in this :hug: your comments made me feel better! If i didn't have you on my side, she probably wouldn't have paid any attention to my complaints whatsoever, it's because i had so many people backing me up that i managed to end this problem and have my voice heard. :new:

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KrisCynical's avatar
I've had my work stolen countless times since I first started posting it online 15 years ago. Most for just empty praise (what the hell kind of satisfaction can you possibly get from being praised for something you didn't do?!), but some for profit via commissions, prints, and other items. The most expensive thing thus far was a woman on eBay who was selling cigar box purses with my Harry Potter work slapped on the sides for $50 bucks USD a pop. She sold a few before she was caught, too. :x

I went to take a look at your gallery, btw, and your work is really excellent. It's not surprising that someone was trying to sell it! :no:

If you've ever had a table/booth at a convention artist alley (or whatever they're called there) and you already know this, please disregard the redundancy. Otherwise:

In the future for conventions, it doesn't matter where the booth owner got the material. If they didn't create it, they're in violation of the policies of the artist alley. That's been an explicit rule at every con I've ever sold MY work at, and it's a zero tolerance policy, too.

If you EVER see your work being sold in an unauthorized manner at a con, report it to the artist alley operations booth IMMEDIATELY to have them ejected from the con. If you see someone ELSE'S work being used, even, report it. They can't claim ignorance because ALL artist alleys make you agree to their policies when you register/pay for a booth space. If they didn't read what they agreed to then that's their problem, not yours.

I mean, honestly, you're supposed to learn not to take what doesn't belong to you by the time you're five years old! It irritates me to no end when people do that anywhere, but if they do it to PROFIT from the stolen work? That's when "~Ye Olde Hunting Brick~" comes out to play. >:\