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Art entries should be submitted by note and are due December 17th!
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Original Post:
An Italian artist has been using stock images from DA's portrait models as the source of her professional work without notifying the models or crediting them. In most cases, these models do not allow commercial use of their stock without permission.
Here is a list of models discovered to have been used so far.
(user is no longer active but this deviation 
used and credited the same stock) used in =Kxhara was the first to notice the use of her image without permission.
I suspect that since so many of these works share a similar source it is likely that many others in the gallery have their source in DA's stock galleries.
This is a serious matter to which I would like to bring more attention. If you are using someone's face in your artwork, be sure you have that person's permission before you go about selling it.
People watermark images to prevent people from using it without paying. These stock providers do not require people to pay for the stock for personal use so it wouldn't make sense for them to have watermarked images. It's the artist's responsibility to ensure the resources they are using are legitimate.