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Published Jul 29th, 2016, 7/29/16 9:54 pm
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Ivain's Avatar Ivain
Level 61 : High Grandmaster Terraformer
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I don't often make blogs like this, but today's happening has justified it.





You see, today a few friends of mine found a guy on instagram that is posting other people's content. He never exactly claims them his work, but a lot of his followers believe he made it, and he never bothers to disabuse them of the notion. This is a guy with 20K+ followers I'm talking about.





Now, as you can imagine, this makes me sorta irritated.
As a result, I've gone around his posts, each time posting a link to the original project on this website, if I could find it.


Now, I found many projects by many different users, but not any by me (guess I'm not popular enough D:), but I did find work by teams like Gocreative, Blockworks, Solari, etc. Also by individuals like Denzarou, Darastlix, Destiny Gene, and many many others.

He has currently blocked me, but there are many other builders aware of him now, including members of Blockworks and GoCreative, both of whom I believe may submit copyright claims, which is not something I can do.


For any further info, check my twitter.





PS: Mods, if any part of this blog breaks the website rules, please alert me and I will remove said part. No need to remove the entire post. I'm not a regular blogger.
CreditPicture from icons.myitemsmyway.com. SHOUTOUT TO HEBARAMC, who originally discovered this user
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08/13/2016 10:37 pm
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Terraformer
Neekoris
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Some people, god damn.
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07/31/2016 7:16 pm
Level 32 : Artisan Mountaineer
HebaraMC
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I discovered it because someone of my buildteam Blockheaven gave me the link of a build uploaded by this guy without credits... basically this guy get followers on instagram uploading pictures of builds without credits.. This is like open a youtube channel and upload music content without credits and get money for that... I hope unless that somebody report him or remove all the pictures..
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07/31/2016 6:20 am
Level 52 : Grandmaster Artist
Udvio
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We'll try to take down those accounts if there is any way of doing so. This situation is pathetic.
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07/31/2016 6:55 am
Level 61 : High Grandmaster Terraformer
Ivain
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I would've reported all of them, but copyright reports require actual personal data and stuff, not gonna work for stuff thats not mine.
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07/31/2016 6:10 am
Level 39 : Artisan Architect
MaxLeon
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I think every builder knows the unwritten rules we have .
You can't use any of his work without his agreement even for a god dam post .
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07/30/2016 9:09 am
Level 60 : High Grandmaster Architect
JasonKingBW
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Such a scumbag. I'll drop him on his head
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07/30/2016 4:41 am
Level 43 : Master Artist
EonlI
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This guy is so pathetic. Really. Anyway, thanks for this blog, without you I would not have discovered that this guy had taken my build.
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07/30/2016 4:37 am
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Architect
Joebricksy
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I don't think there is really anything that can be done about this guy unfortunately. But at the same time I don't really care too much about 200-300 people (because that seems to be his active followers base, Looking at some of the accounts who liked the posts, a bunch of them are most likely bought followers) not knowing who made the build or believing that dude was it. They wouldn't care about it if it existed either.

Thanks for pointing it out though! I don't get what's so difficult and what could influence him negatively if he gave credit though. A shame how egotistical some people are...
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07/30/2016 11:53 am
Level 61 : High Grandmaster Terraformer
Ivain
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Also, his 20K followers mostly believe he made all those things. He rarely disabuses them of it, and if he does always words it like "not this specific build", implying he did make a lot of the others.


Currently there's a person with an account called 'givecreditwhereitsdue2' that's posting credit to all the builds in the comments. The 2 implies the first one was already blocked. I honestly don't believe that instagram would allow this sort of thing to continue long, but apparently it has.
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07/30/2016 11:51 am
Level 61 : High Grandmaster Terraformer
Ivain
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According to Instagram's intellectual property policy, you can make a claim if someone uploads a photograph that you took, or something that you created, but not if someone uploads a photograph of you, and probably also not if they took one of something you made.


So while it may be hard to lay claim to the posts because of the actual builds, it is possible to put in a claim because of the actual renders.
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