deviantART: Crack down on Copyrights Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/deviantart-crack-down-on-copyrights.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 7 Apr 2026 08:22 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ted Parsons [Signature #696] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891858?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2009 06:52:00 UTC 4891858 Anonymous [Signature #695] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891463?utm_medium=rss Members should be uploading their own original works and ideas (fan art or not)!
Tracing from others is simply stealing!

]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:54:37 UTC 4891463 Tachs P [Signature #694] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891395?utm_medium=rss This is bull.

]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:33:18 UTC 4891395 Anonymous [Signature #693] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891316?utm_medium=rss Tracing is now ALLOWED? It's fine to try to re-draw a particular pose you might like, but outright TRACING it is not acceptable at ALL. It's a blatant disrespect of the original author's art, and should not be tolerated.

]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 04:05:14 UTC 4891316 Anonymous [Signature #692] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891129?utm_medium=rss I felt I've been stepped on and that DA is supporting art thieves more than those who work hard on their piece.

]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 02:59:39 UTC 4891129 sara villanueva [Signature #691] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4891016?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:55:00 UTC 4891016 Javier Soto [Signature #690] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890995?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2009 01:49:51 UTC 4890995 Trisha Gregorio [Signature #689] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890844?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:40:02 UTC 4890844 Chad Westbrook [Signature #688] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890783?utm_medium=rss Those who copy, trace, steal, and infringe are low and good for nothing!

]]> Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:22:23 UTC 4890783 hiya ham [Signature #687] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890758?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:09:50 UTC 4890758 Katrina Young [Signature #686] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890739?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:57:46 UTC 4890739 Anonymous [Signature #685] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890694?utm_medium=rss Any tracing or duplication is art theft, no excuses. You can do it if you like, to practice, but you shouldnt be allowed to post it as your own work.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:37:30 UTC 4890694 Anonymous [Signature #684] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890685?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:33:59 UTC 4890685 Amanda Burr [Signature #683] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890631?utm_medium=rss Allowing people to trace and steal other people's hard work is an insult to real artists everywhere.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:04:00 UTC 4890631 Skye Rarig [Signature #682] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890611?utm_medium=rss Unwarranted tracing is stealing, hun. That's all there is to it. Unless the artist gives permission, it. is. stealing.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:53:33 UTC 4890611 Kitsune-Lunari (Anon) [Signature #681] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890473?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:05:42 UTC 4890473 abby smiddy [Signature #680] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890330?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:28:23 UTC 4890330 Sara Hyneman [Signature #679] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890251?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:12:12 UTC 4890251 Lauren Marks [Signature #678] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890220?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:05:29 UTC 4890220 Louise Bourke [Signature #677] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890199?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:00:02 UTC 4890199 Anonymous [Signature #676] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890073?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:28:49 UTC 4890073 Krishna Leitner [Signature #675] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4890059?utm_medium=rss Since the day I joined I fell in love with DA...too bad tracing is taking over of what I once logged every 5 mins.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:25:49 UTC 4890059 mywi k [Signature #674] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889998?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:14:48 UTC 4889998 Meghan Spiess [Signature #673] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889990?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:13:25 UTC 4889990 Anonymous [Signature #672] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889898?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:52:29 UTC 4889898 ashley doyle [Signature #671] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889885?utm_medium=rss Completely absurd... Utter bull.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:48:21 UTC 4889885 Ryan Shaver [Signature #670] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889875?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:45:59 UTC 4889875 Maria Stoupakis [Signature #669] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889863?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:42:51 UTC 4889863 iNSOMNiAC013 The Deviant [Signature #668] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889850?utm_medium=rss COME ON dA-! This is ridiculous! Next thing ya know, art thieves will be ok, too! D:

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:40:00 UTC 4889850 Stephanie Hasten [Signature #667] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889846?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:39:23 UTC 4889846 FRANKLIN TONG [Signature #666] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889830?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:35:55 UTC 4889830 Jason Robertson [Signature #665] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889826?utm_medium=rss I fully endorse this movement.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:35:21 UTC 4889826 Samantha L. [Signature #664] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889800?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:29:12 UTC 4889800 Emily Traff [Signature #663] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889788?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:28:29 UTC 4889788 Jamie Moeller [Signature #662] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889781?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:27:14 UTC 4889781 Sally Rose [Signature #661] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889759?utm_medium=rss I used to report copies and traces, until DA's rules changed; now all I can report are sprite sheets or screenshots and only glare at the traces. It's tiresome to see in the searches, and not be able to do anything about it.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:22:32 UTC 4889759 Megan Squiers [Signature #660] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889715?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:13:32 UTC 4889715 Anonymous [Signature #659] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889696?utm_medium=rss Tracing does not teach you how to draw, it teaches you how to steal.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:09:16 UTC 4889696 Anonymous [Signature #658] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889687?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:07:23 UTC 4889687 Katelyn Naylor [Signature #657] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889673?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:00:21 UTC 4889673 Tressie Kincannon [Signature #656] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889665?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:58:01 UTC 4889665 Robin Lortie-Lafontaine [Signature #655] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889616?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:46:47 UTC 4889616 Michael Kraft [Signature #654] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889584?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:36:59 UTC 4889584 Tyler Wilson [Signature #653] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889558?utm_medium=rss I am not a very good artist yet. And the fact that people who don't deserve the attention they get because they trace burns me to the core. Last I recalled, tracing is for children.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:32:22 UTC 4889558 Casey Newton [Signature #652] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889416?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:56:57 UTC 4889416 Brandis doubleyu [Signature #651] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889412?utm_medium=rss very true

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:56:08 UTC 4889412 Victoria Frey [Signature #650] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889409?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:55:07 UTC 4889409 Sam E [Signature #649] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889401?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:54:23 UTC 4889401 Lucas Irineu [Signature #648] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889333?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:36:05 UTC 4889333 Sarah Bentley [Signature #647] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889318?utm_medium=rss I agreed fully. Tracing does not equal art and I am ashamed of anyone who believes it does.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:33:17 UTC 4889318 Jessica Pinell [Signature #646] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889310?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:31:37 UTC 4889310 Gabriela Moraes Montoro [Signature #645] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889307?utm_medium=rss Many dA artists have their original work, original characters, original stories. If copies without credit are allowed, then those original arts will be faded to doom. If the policy keeps like that, I'm moving out to another website. Along with at least half od dA.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:31:10 UTC 4889307 Bethany Barnes [Signature #644] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889218?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:08:54 UTC 4889218 Sam Reynolds [Signature #643] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889168?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:56:40 UTC 4889168 Ariane Sloan [Signature #642] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889112?utm_medium=rss Whatever happened to art?

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:46:19 UTC 4889112 Paul Partyka [Signature #641] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889070?utm_medium=rss It's wrong, DA should stay as it was.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:34:33 UTC 4889070 Amy Bolduc [Signature #640] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4889065?utm_medium=rss Of all the things I have seen on DA, this has to be the most ridiculous and idiotic thing to ever befallen the site. Because of this rule, art thieves are free to copy a piece of artwork and claim it as their own, and eventually there will be floods of artwork not crediting the creator. Because of this, I have stored all my artwork, since I do not need to have any of my characters be stolen. I HAPPEN TO LOVE THE CHARACTERS I MADE. Now this rule makes it fine for someone to own my character. BS!

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:33:43 UTC 4889065 Caren Osgood [Signature #639] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888815?utm_medium=rss It shouldn't bee too hard to make a practice category so everyone can still post this stuff without being art thieves!

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:43:35 UTC 4888815 Heather S [Signature #638] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888662?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:18:33 UTC 4888662 Ashley Clark [Signature #637] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888627?utm_medium=rss Seriously DA? Time to grow up and brush up on your copyright law.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:14:50 UTC 4888627 Vanessa Lamontagne [Signature #636] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888504?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:54:12 UTC 4888504 Lia Tomco [Signature #635] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888345?utm_medium=rss I've said quite a bit on the subject already.
Let me give the laymen version:
NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Tracers and art thieves want only fame and popularity online when they post what they've stolen. If they are learning that way in the privacy of their home its one thing. But the minute it goes online it is unethical.
This is a legal monstrosity waiting to happen. I've researched with copyright laws and find that what DA is finding permissible is outright infringement on the original artists' rights.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:27:47 UTC 4888345 Anonymous [Signature #634] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888274?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:17:53 UTC 4888274 Amber T [Signature #633] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888225?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:11:43 UTC 4888225 Cheyenne Pettit [Signature #632] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888189?utm_medium=rss Tracing is bad. I mean, I took a picture of Sesshoumaru and drew it on my bedroom wall, but I maximized it on my own by like four times before drawing it and never actually traced it. To see good pieces of artwork stolen like that? Stupid. ~

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:05:30 UTC 4888189 Angelica F [Signature #631] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4888132?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:58:20 UTC 4888132 Amanda Hanson [Signature #630] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887958?utm_medium=rss dA, you have claimed that you have our best interests in mind. With your newest news article, allowing people to trace other artists' work and post it as their own without the consent of the artist really makes me question your policies, as well as how much research you did before that ditz wrote and posted that. Any diot could tell you that what you are doing is as illegal as breaking and entering a home and burglarizing it.
All I can say is don't be surprised when the lawsuits come.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:34:18 UTC 4887958 Jacqueline McNeese [Signature #629] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887748?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:03:24 UTC 4887748 Anonymous [Signature #628] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887701?utm_medium=rss Honestly, this is just wrong.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:53:55 UTC 4887701 Christy Little [Signature #627] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887357?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:57:19 UTC 4887357 Keaton D [Signature #626] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887137?utm_medium=rss If you copy, it's stealing. It doesn't matter how you do it; copying is copying.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:22:44 UTC 4887137 Anonymous [Signature #625] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4887117?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:19:47 UTC 4887117 Luisa Rafidi [Signature #624] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4886897?utm_medium=rss What they're doing is against the law and they know it. This must be changed.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:50:14 UTC 4886897 Daniel Irvin [Signature #623] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4886378?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:47:10 UTC 4886378 Amanda D [Signature #622] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4886198?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:22:55 UTC 4886198 Tim Keil [Signature #621] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4886010?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:56:39 UTC 4886010 Anonymous [Signature #620] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885938?utm_medium=rss This is crap, i'm fine with them using it to practice, but more often than not they repost it as their own work when they didn't do jack squat! If this keeps up we'll get as bad as youtube!

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:46:59 UTC 4885938 Rachel Swain [Signature #619] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885906?utm_medium=rss It's sad that we even have to go as far as a petition regarding this issue. It's such a simple concept--I for one cannot understand who would be dumb enough to think this would be a readily accepted policy.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:44:00 UTC 4885906 Kim Sewell [Signature #618] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885903?utm_medium=rss >__>
No words. XP

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:43:51 UTC 4885903 Anonymous [Signature #617] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885646?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:11:09 UTC 4885646 richard simmons [Signature #616] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885401?utm_medium=rss For once, stop thinking about your wallets and think about the views of the community. If this tracing rule passes not only will you loose money from subscribers but the artists that MAKE DA what it is, an art site.

Why would potential deviants want to sign up to DA and have the choice to pay for it when they can go to photobucket for free.

Get your heads out of your asses and start seeing shit more clearly.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:38:19 UTC 4885401 Alexis Vera [Signature #615] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885384?utm_medium=rss GAH! WHY CAN'T PEOPLE ACCEPT THAT TRACING IS BAD! YOU NEED TO GET BY WITH YOUR OWN ART SKILLS!

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 07:34:21 UTC 4885384 Kinsey Jenkins [Signature #614] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4885070?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:21:13 UTC 4885070 Anonymous [Signature #613] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4884893?utm_medium=rss This is Unbeleavable. DeviantART is becoming as bad as Youtube!

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 05:36:27 UTC 4884893 Golbez Lunarin [Signature #612] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4884449?utm_medium=rss I've been on DA a long time now... and seeing them more or less allow traces really bugs me D:>

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:42:52 UTC 4884449 Adam Kessler [Signature #611] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4884205?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:19:45 UTC 4884205 Anonymous [Signature #610] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4884199?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 02:13:27 UTC 4884199 Fei Lynn [Signature #609] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4884147?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:53:59 UTC 4884147 Kim Smith [Signature #608] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883910?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:46:57 UTC 4883910 Robyn Nunn [Signature #607] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883800?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:14:25 UTC 4883800 Jenny Stead [Signature #606] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883781?utm_medium=rss Tracing isn't art, and it's copyright violation. If DevART carries on like this, they'll end up like Napster and Youtube, and will be sued for their lack of sense on the matter.

]]> Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:09:02 UTC 4883781 Michi Willett [Signature #605] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883764?utm_medium=rss Thu, 5 Feb 2009 12:02:17 UTC 4883764 rebeca tellez [Signature #604] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883736?utm_medium=rss i quiestion the artistic integrity of the people who are supposed to be running an ART SITE who seem perfectly content with the idea of tracing copyright work. enjoy dodging the lawsuits!

]]> Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:53:37 UTC 4883736 Megan Duke [Signature #603] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883718?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:48:30 UTC 4883718 Tyori hiwatari [Signature #602] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883670?utm_medium=rss I fully support this! Copiers have harrassed many of my friends! (never me, which I'm both happy and sad about... ;_;)

]]> Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:31:48 UTC 4883670 Crystal Olivera [Signature #601] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883641?utm_medium=rss I do reference better artists in order to become better myself but I don't try to claim work of others as my own. Its all in as scraps, if I even post it to deviant at all...

]]> Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:18:29 UTC 4883641 Denise Russell [Signature #600] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883573?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:52:55 UTC 4883573 Anonymous [Signature #599] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883566?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:50:10 UTC 4883566 kendra wiese [Signature #598] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883356?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:53:28 UTC 4883356 Yasumine Mousa [Signature #597] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4883155?utm_medium=rss I thought it was some sort of joke at first. It's still copyright infringement of other artists' work, DA.

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