User blog:Lillybug03/Stolen Art Issue

'''Ok, before I begin, this post will be using sources from Kiwi Farms. I do not support them and do not go against them, however I will be stating their posts for sources.'''

In YandereDev's recent video, "The Case Of Kokona Haruka", he displays a silhouette of concepts for DLC rivals. This is shown around 14:48 minutes into the video. The silhouettes are seemingly of a shrine maden, a police woman, a magical girl, two twins and a killer/yandere.

However, a website known as Kiwifarms became suspicious of this, as they have been pointing out problems involving YandereDev, and this became obvious after they found out who the 6th DLC art was of- Yandere-chan's original concept art.

This started a search for all the artworks stolen, and they have resulted in these findings:

1. Shrine Maden Custom Adopt (Art by Sensiblebuny on DA. The character belongs to vidkid19962, also on DA)

2. Maggey Byrde from Ace Attorney

3. Fanart of Aisha Landar from the MMO Elsword (Original art by altaurie on DeviantART/kageouji on Tumblr)

4. & 5. The Orihara twins from the anime Durarara

6. Yandere-chan's concept design



YandereDev did not ask for permission to use the first 4 artworks (Yandere concept may be owned by him, however the others are not)

My stance on this is simple. No matter what you MUST ask artists to use their art in videos. Artists of no. 1 & 3 are very unhappy with this, and they have a right to be. I would also be angry if someone used my art without permission. I don't care if this is placeholder, he still should not have used it.

For everyone: thoughts on this?

(Links to the artworks:

1. http://sensiblebunny.deviantart.com/art/Shrine-Maiden-Custom-Adopt-549153550

(As you can tell by the comments she is not happy with her art being stolen)

2. http://aceattorney.wikia.com/wiki/Maggey_Byrde_-_Image_Gallery?file=Officer_Byrde.png

3. http://altaurie.deviantart.com/art/uber-kawaii-magical-girl-Aisha-381980788

(They are also very unhappy with YanDev using their artwork. They also made a Tumblr post about it (http://kageouji.tumblr.com/post/160812948908/heres-the-situation-for-anyone-curious-about-the))

4. & 5. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c8/9a/1d/c89a1d1ece8763e6155899d6f80ae190.jpg

6. https://yanderedev.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/mainchar.jpg?w=650)