Anyone familiar with the way Deviant Art works?

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I have a Deviant Art account and a butt-ton of concepts for my game/story/movie and would like to post it. I don't want them ripped off, stolen, or used by anyone else without my permission though. Does Deviant protect against this stuff, or can anyone just yank it off and use it for their own good?
 
I have a Deviant Art account and a butt-ton of concepts for my game/story/movie and would like to post it. I don't want them ripped off, stolen, or used by anyone else without my permission though. Does Deviant protect against this stuff, or can anyone just yank it off and use it for their own good?

You can't protect anything you put on the web. Once somebody can see it, they can steal it, it's that simple.
 
Yeah, put the watermark on. But copyrights work like this: if you have an original work, like a painting, or character design, and it's sitting in your office, it doesn't have copyrights. Why? Because it has to first be published. Publishing it on the web (by putting it up on DA for example) you get that copyright. Deviantart notes the date you published it with a copyright right below the picture. This way, you can prove that you published it first. If you take/remove it from DA, then you let go of that copyright.

Getting actual legal documentation is more complicated.
 
Watermarks don't do anything but make your work unviewable. Just sign your stuff and build up a fanbase that would report any ripoffs to you. I've been using dA, FA, and NG for over 6 years with hundreds of thousands of people viewing my work, nothing stolen yet.

Don't use creative commons licenses, because if someone jacks your piece, they'll be protected under them.

You should be aware, people that rip off art don't care about your own original concepts. They rip off the stuff that will get them fame, like fan-art and softcore porno.
 
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