I'm normally one for not following the news, but this just sickens me... Copy/paste from another thread.
--Chad Lieberman. This self-proclaimed "best (con)artist in the world" has stolen art from artists on deviantart.com and many other online freelance and art galleries, claimed it as his own, and sold it for thousands. We're talking hobbyist/freelance artists who sell their work for $50 or so to their art communities are being ripped to some guy LITERALLY stealing and selling their work for $300-$1000! He even had the gall to steal works from Alex Garner, a DC Comic artist. During the months "his" sites were up (He's had 4), He's made an estimated 10-25 MILLION illegally selling other people's work.
Once word got around about this, he immediately deleted his twitter, facebook, and other social media accounts and put "his" online art gallery into hiding. Several of the artists he ripped from are filing Class-action lawsuits against him.
Screen shots and information about the lawsuit can be found here http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/#/d4737e3
This thread has MASSIVE amounts of information about the incident, including a list of all artists and works he's stolen from (well over 175+ different artists and 4500 pieces of artwork)
http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=28276&pg=1
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--Chad Lieberman. This self-proclaimed "best (con)artist in the world" has stolen art from artists on deviantart.com and many other online freelance and art galleries, claimed it as his own, and sold it for thousands. We're talking hobbyist/freelance artists who sell their work for $50 or so to their art communities are being ripped to some guy LITERALLY stealing and selling their work for $300-$1000! He even had the gall to steal works from Alex Garner, a DC Comic artist. During the months "his" sites were up (He's had 4), He's made an estimated 10-25 MILLION illegally selling other people's work.
Once word got around about this, he immediately deleted his twitter, facebook, and other social media accounts and put "his" online art gallery into hiding. Several of the artists he ripped from are filing Class-action lawsuits against him.
Screen shots and information about the lawsuit can be found here http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/#/d4737e3
This thread has MASSIVE amounts of information about the incident, including a list of all artists and works he's stolen from (well over 175+ different artists and 4500 pieces of artwork)
http://forums.colbertnation.com/?page=ThreadView&thread_id=28276&pg=1
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