I also see dustmeat, lots of eski, some Tina Leyk, Ruggels...

I wish people could at least link back to artists' archives.
At least then the artists might get some business out of it.
As is people have to include ugly URLs in the pictures.

Well ... the link you posted doesn't seem to me to be too much of a problem. Sure, the blogger should link to the galleries, but it doesn't seem they're taking credit for the art, are they? I mean, I can't read Russian ...

Right right, I was mainly thinking in comparison - it's not even half as bad as all those RPG sites who were using peoples' art as characters, either recolored or in the original form. This person seems to be just an appreciator of canid art.

I didn't see the re-edits, although I'll agree those aren't acceptable.

Oh look, at the top of the blog site, translated by Babelfish (ripped the idea from supochi, hee):

Gathering pictures and texts on the network, it is not always possible to find the name of the author. Therefore request to the artists, who saw their figure, not to growl very loudly. =)Prosto you will state your authorship by reference to the site, where you placed this picture. The post with the figure can be removed on your request.

So I don't think we should worry about this. If you find your art here, just contact the blogger. He probably gets most the images off of search engines.

...They're Russian.

Yeah, but they consider themselves art appreciators. Clearly they're not artists themselves, else they'd know better than to do what they do, so not only would it be unreasonable to expect them to know English in the first place, we can't expect them to think of putting that message in English. Besides, they at least had the courtesy to put the message in the header, so Babelfishing would be easier. And guess what? It worked. :3

Not everyone in Russia can speak english though. It might just be a case of the people in charge not being able to translate it and the members not thinking about it since they're not in charge.

Wow, they used one of my pictures as the "Welcome" image. Should I be sad that no one recognized it? I guess not.

Good thing I took a look, cause I don't allow my work to be altered and reposted. ESPECIALLY when the alteration is removing the sig and copyright notice.

If it makes you feel any better I was wondering who did the welcome image since I really like the drawing. But then I like most of your work.
Sucks that they edited it though, assholes.

Being russian, I can translate properly without babelfish's lovely grammar (or lack thereof :P). Here's what it says.

Notice:
When collecting pictures and writing online, it's not always possible to find the author's name. Because of this, I ask any artists who see their own work not to growl too loudly [aka get too angry]. Just confirm that you ARE the author [or creator] of the work by sending us a link to where the original can be found. The post with your image [can also be understood as just 'your image'] can be removed upon your request.

What the whole image archive IS, as far as I understand, is just a collection of wolf art (there's another word in the description I don't understand fully, though it seems to do with some kind of... shapeshifting... possibly a russian term for anthro, lol). So I don't think this person was intending to STEAL these images, but are just posting a kind of collection.

PS. If anyone needs to have anything else on that site translated for clarification, let me know! :)

There has been a rash of websites like these, of people taking others anthro works and reposting them ( many of the people I watch in DA post reports about these sites in their journals ). Most of the time, they are Russian websites.

It's good that they are willing to give credit to the original artists and authors, HOWEVER, they should not be posting ANYONE'S works without getting their permission first. If it's not possible to get said artists information ( which I find to be a lame excuse, as there is always a way to contact someone, no matter how difficult it may be ), then the work should not be placed up.

No permission and no way to get permission? Oh well, tough tookies, then don't display it.

Permission first always.

( sorry, this is a topic that really teeves me )

~~Bee

Even still, no permission, no posting. And that's why places like Babelfish exhist ^^;. It may provide really rough translations, but it does the job.

~~Bee