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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(user is no longer active but this deviation 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.
I have notes to try to remember to use the staff like a two handed weapon in future shoots so hopefully stuff like that will start showing up
Yeah, that's the a big, sad part about all this. I know what it's like to feel like you're not getting the credit or compensation you deserve for your work and when people feel that way, they get despondent and uninterested in doing the helpful things they've been doing. ;( This is how we loose good stock people!
So our options are: Stock-by-application, as in everyone must send a note to recieve stock, which is a huge lag
or B: offer free downloads, and ask for credit, then find lots of stolen work later.
Writers do have the tool of google search at their disposal. Text search is much more comprehensive than image searching (though admittedly it doesn't help for offline publishing, same with art)
The fact is, no matter what you do, once you put something on the internet you are opening it up to being stolen, used without permission, criticized, shared, etc.
There is nothing you can do to stop these things from happening, other than not uploading anything to the internet.