If there was a price for brazenness...

[astridv]

A 'Samantha Jones' from Australia sent drawings of Spike and Angel to Buffy and Angel Magazine and won a star price. Only problem is that the drawings weren't done by Samantha, but by thedothatgirl. All Samantha did was copy them and remove the signatures. Eh, I have no idea what drives plagiarists to do something as pointless and stupid as this. Who needs attention this badly?

But while at it... thedothatgirl's website is worth checking out. She's posted well-done fan-art of most, if not all the characters of the Whedonverse shows. It's fun to browse.

Comments

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

wow. just... wow. i can't believe the nerve of that girl. *shakes head sadly*

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Must be a pathological attention seeker... not like she could have gaining anything from this.

[girlpire.livejournal.com]

i just don't understand how she could think no one would find out... or why she wouldn't care if they did. i mean, LOTS of people in the fandom read that mag, you know?

[astridv.livejournal.com]

i mean, LOTS of people in the fandom read that mag, you know?

Yeah, it's just a dumb thing to do. Everybody and their brother reads that magazine. Maybe she's one of those people who crave attention of every kind, even negative.

[thedothatgirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

No problem. I wonder if that person actually thought she wouldn't be found out. Heck, I'd recognize your puppet Angel icon anywhere, mirrored and face down.

[makd.livejournal.com]

thanks for alerting us to the thief's name....what a crappy thing to do.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

As to her name, I googled it and apparently it's also the name of a character from 'Sex in the City'... though that name is probably not rare so maybe it is her real one.

How pathetic. It hadn't crossed my mind that someone might plagiarize fanart... not to send it to a magazine that's read by a large part of fandom, anyway.

I do make sure to post only lo-rez files online... not enough to make a really decent print, I thought that's enough to keep away plagiarists. *shrug*

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Maybe she could report it to stop_plagiarism? I men, it won't undo anything or make the thief any less of a pustule, but it would alert other fan artists.

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I'll check out that group.

Just, not much you can do. I mean, I'll post my stuff regardless. If I happen to see anyone snag my fanart and pass it for theirs, I'll out them to the fandom, with much enthusiasm. If someone stole some of my original art... well, happened to a friend of mine. Once she stumbled over it, she got them to take it down *really* quickly. *eg*