Rain Dance by DexterousDamsel

But in order to protect it, you ruin it. It's a consequence you have to pay, if you want to use the Internet to spread your art, you have to accept its rules and, even if we don't like it, Internet is an anarchy. If you don't see this, you end up doing what you do: watermarking the whole image so it can't be enjoyed anymore. You talked about Van Gogh, well, imagine you now go to a museum and see Van Gogh's art under a huge watermark that says "COPYRIGHT VAN GOGH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED" so that people who take photos of it can't claim it as theirs.

Isn't that ridiculous? You make your art less expressive, less beautiful, less art, just to protect it from something that won't actually hurt it, but spread it. You have to ask yourself: «Do you do art to express or to be famous, to "make people see your name as the one of a good artist"?» What's the point of art then? Fame of expressivity?

My point is, there's no point being angry of someone claiming your art as theirs, because you know it is yours and if you get to a point where you have to prove it, you actually can, because you made it, it came from you and, in the facts, you posted it before. I mean: you are better than those thieves, don't let them affect you nor your art.