(Below is the journal entry in response to the first time this image was stolen)

Hello Again,

I was going to update my journal on my Photography gallery & tell everyone how excited I was about my new Nikon D40x... But that happiness got shot in the stomache.

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Above is a link to an eBay listing that has used this same to print on a mug.

This is worse then before as they stand to profit from an image that is mine. I've contacted eBay & the seller & I'm going to also alert deviantART that this image was stolen from my gallery here.

*sigh*


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Hi there!

This is me (not looking my best ) holding my most prided drawing!



I was looking for pictures of Rossi's 46 as he uses it on his bike, & typed "valentino rossi 46" into a Google image search
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& what do I see? My artwork as the first two results of the search, only the watermark was removed & it had been used in a small graphic that a designer has used to accompany a blog entry of his on his website.

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Now, I'd be flattered by this but not only did he edit out my water mark all he's written about the image is:

"Edit: sorry, was totally headbanged by the race, forgot to tell something about the image:46 .used an inked image transformed from a poster, added the official rossi colour ( Yamaha Camel ), picture previously used at my ole’ blogger account."

So where's my credit? I don't appreciate him just using my art however he sees fit without even acknowledging me.

I'm currently typing an e-mail to send, asking for the image to be removed or proper credit given to me & links back to my gallery here.