To start this off, if you want my mod, you should download it now over at MTS before I take it down. After this saga, I’m going to remove it when all this is said and done. http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=560538
In the saga of, Someone put my artwork up without my permission and then altered it, put their brand name on it and is profiting from it, I am now drafting a proper DMCA notification (thanks @mspoodle1) with descriptions of my artwork to prove I own the copyright owner along with dates of original publication in an online format. Have found that because my artwork can be a source of income (the various drawings, paintings and photos)which could be sold as prints if I chose to, I have further ground to stand on that these assholes do not have “fair use” of my work because they are profiting from the download. If I actually had money, I’d sue their ass for everything they have made from the ads on that page.
My mod is no different than me allowing people to put my artwork up in a gallery. You may not use it other than for personal use, you may take photographs of it, but you may NOT steal it or make money from it unless you notify me and ask first! This is artwork I created in college and can no longer create due to health and financial issues (not to mention I can barely find film to purchase anymore, let alone a company that’s affordable to develop it). I doubt you’d come into my house, see me struggling to walk, then proceed to take my artwork off the walls in person unless you are a truly evil person and enjoy getting pummeled with a cane.
I know this happened to a lot of mod creators who had their intellectual and creative property/copyrights from sims 3 stolen. I know people at this point people are a bit jaded to the fact that hey, this happened to a lot of people, so quit complaining about it. I’m sorry it happened to everyone, but I’m not going to go quietly and I’m going to fight these people until they remove it. Facebook and google+ have already done so. I’m still hoping twitter will. They allow terrorists to continue to work on their servers, so I’m not exactly hopeful they will.