Sent a tweet. Dunno if they'll remove it though..

I never quite got why people need to take other peoples characters to RP with, i find the most fun thing is creating and fleshing characters out. but then again im a Game designer. Hopefully one person will sit down with them and tell them its wrong instead of shouting at them that there bad for doing it.

:P Good luck with that. Entitled generation thinks they can do whatever they want with others intellectual property.

Reported it.

You need to follow: https://support.twitter.com/groups/.....nd-dmca-policy

I.e. fill out https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca and link her tweets

This is not cool. Why would someone do this?

You can't copyright a character, so she can technically "pretend" to be this person all she wants...

But you can report this person for using your art for their character without permission.

Incorrect. Characters with distinguishable designs, names and remarkable personality and appearances can be copyright, and even additionally trademarked, at least in U.S. law. A notable case of this would be the case of Neil Gaiman vs. Todd McFarlane, et. al. regarding characters as intellectual property.

"[...]the idea for the characters, and ideas are not copyrightable, only expression is and the expression was due to McFarlane’s drawing of the characters." She made the art and design of the character, she holds the copyright.

Where did you get that quote from?

http://www.ivanhoffman.com/jointauthors.html

The case was regarding whether or not a "jointly" created character can be exclusively copyrighted by one party or the other. The ruling stated that since one person gave purely abstract concept and no final expressive input, while the other produced art and writing to flesh out the concept, the person who solidified the concept into something visible and distinctive is the person who holds the copyright. Does it apply exactly to this case in the same way? Unfortunately, no, but the case could be stated that Koul, being both contributor of concept and executor of the design and portrayal of said character, in addition to marking her works as such, "Art (C) Koul Fardreamer" would be enough to make a case. Herein lies the problem, though. Names, phrases, and written word are not copyright, though they ARE eligible for trademark if distinctive enough, but trademark protection you do need to register and pay for.

I stand pleasantly corrected! I was working on previous information that is... obviously now incorrect. Then again, I am Canadian, so the law may be a little bit different here, but still. Probably not.


I'm kind of happy that I was schooled. :/

Canadian copy right law is the same you can copy right characters up here too

The case is not entirely applicable even then either because McFarlane had contracted Gaiman to work on the comic book, expressly stating that each of them would own 50% of the characters in the (verbal) contract. He later went to breach his own contract and it was up to the unanimous jury.

The real problem here would be whether the character has enough substance and uniqueness to their story and appearance that they can be considered a creative work on their own, and not a derivative of something else, because in a continuation of the same case McFarlane lost the rights to three characters he made after that when the judge saw them to be derivatives of the contested characters rather than their own entities. I.e. is the character's backstory too similar to someone else's existing character to be considered a derivative, and not different enough to be considered copyrightable?

There is no doubt, however, that the copyright to the illustrations belong to their creator here, and that's the easiest route to take the profile down.

Considering that the design of her character is arguably unique (specific facial markings, patterns, colors) and can be tracked back all the way back to 2007, without a ton of change in between; I'd say a damn strong case can be made that the design of her character is demonstrably unique and has remained identifiable over 7 years.

Additionally, She uses it as a Nickname on several sites, so besides the trademark/copyright thing she could also claim that this person impersonates her (not her character, but really HERSELF).

My biggest concern is the language barrier for Twitter support. English is by no means her strongest language, so a bilingual interpreter helping her out would be the best solution. Unfortunately, my Russian is shoddy at best, having learned it secondhand from my grandmother bits and pieces at a time.

Wow, you could not be more wrong. You can copyright a character, absolutely. What the hell do you think characters from books, movies and games are? Literally any fictional figure you can think of in general media is a copyrighted character. Gandalf, Harry Potter, Sonic the Hedgehog, Link from LoZ, the fucking Planters Peanuts guy. They're all characters. Copyrighted ones.

yeah, I heard about something like this, but that involved a Facebook account with Rukis' artwork even though the account wasn't hers even though it said specifically her

you can use the report on the twitter page, i think there is the russian too so you go on the gear then report

"this guy try to steal my identity" and then you do the report, unluckly twitter don't make possible (like facebook) a mass report for identity steal

ewwwwwwwwwww

Hi there,

Honestly your best chance is to see if Twitter will do anything about it. In the end this person has stated on the twitter account that they are NOT you and only "roleplay" as Koul. It is the same thing when people start twitter accounts with celebrities and other people, usually twitter allows it if they aren't making any money off your pictures or trying to say they are you when they are not. That is the whole point of Twitter's VERIFIED policy.

Still, I have posted a note to this person stating they should get permission to use your images. I hate to say it tho, if Twitter doesn't want to take them down, there is very little you can do other than sue them in court and that would be very expensive.

if someone can get me her skype/ IP address I'll make sure she won't be able to use her computer for a while.

maybe not a good idea to be stating in public you plan to comment a crime

As someone mentioned above, you can submit a DMCA notice, but you might have better luck reporting the account for impersonation. https://support.twitter.com/forms/i.....=MurderousEyes

Good luck.

It should be mentioned that you have to submit the report. Fans/friends can't do it for you unless they're an authorized individual (i.e. your lawyer or someone you've specifically appointed to represent you).

Reported ... hope it'll help you.

https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation

You should fill this out

Ох блин, у людей совсем нет воображения для своих персонажей.

Как другие сказали, тебе лучше заполнить эту форму https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation Увы, нет версии на русском, но если хочешь добавь меня в скайп(такой же ник) и я объясню тебе каждый шаг :3

спасибо! напишу тебе, если она будет продолжать писать. а то заглохла что-то

They havent been active since October.

As was pointed out the only person who can contact twitter and have it removed is you Twitter wont let anyone but someone that you give legal power to act on your behalf