wish.com sells STOLEN RWBY art.

www.wish.com/m/search/rwby

This is disgusting. It's one thing for one, lone art thief to violate an artist's consent and take their property. It's another thing for a RWBY group admin to allow that thief to promote their work in the RWBY group.

But, this is on a completely different level. This site is taking everyone's art and converting it into merchandise without getting the artist's consent or without giving them ANY cut of the profits. At least with the thieves and admins, they only get their credibility destroyed; but, this is a horrible outcome of "free market" gone too far.

Here's 's work: www.wish.com/m/c/58aaa91553ad8…

Here's work: www.wish.com/m/c/56da8df0f9ac7…

www.wish.com/m/c/5690e1940048e…

This one is ESPECIALLY revolting. www.wish.com/m/c/56f93928ae8c9…
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If you are an afflicted artist, here is their email:    brand-protection@wish.com

It's clear to me that these people are scum. Unfortunately, this is where things get expensive. After researching these incidents, it appears that the afflicted artist can demand a cut of the profits and or that the site pulls their products off of the rack. That costs nothing but your time and patience, but the results aren't guaranteed.

The next cheapest solution for the afflicted artist is to hire a lawyer to write and deliver an official "Cease and Desist" letter. Again, going off of hasty google research, prices range from one to a couple of hundred dollars. Again, wish.com might not comply and think that it's a bluff, knowing the artist probably isn't made of money.

The final solution is to hire a lawyer to sue wish.com and go to court over this. This is really bad for the artist.

According to www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedi… you'll have to pay several hundred dollars per HOUR for a lawyer's time over this. A big trademark case can cost 20,000 USD, and victory is not guaranteed.

If the stolen art has been altered at all (like converting it from a jpeg file to a T-shirt) then wish.com might be able to successfully argue that they've edited the stolen property to the point that fair use laws allow them to own the edited work.

www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/ is a potential resource here. You can make a reddit account, post your case to that subreddit, and get some feedback from people who have actual experience in the field of law and of the courthouse.

What can a regular content consumer do about this? Don't support the site and keep an eye out for artists that they recognize and notify the afflicted artist.

I'm so sorry that we can't be of any greater help. This group is a technocracy, but not for legal matters. If anyone has any questions, we can try to answer to the best of our abilities, but don't be surprised if we say, "We're not lawyers. We don't know. Here's what we found on google."

If afflicted artists feel that rwby.deviantart.com can help in any way, they are encouraged to reach out to us. We'll do our best to help you, the people.

I thank for bringing this to my attention, and my heart goes out to all of these artists who only wanted to show their brilliance to the world.