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Vidom vs. Maran

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Published: Sep 24, 2013

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I finally tracked down all the stolen works I found on one of the books of Maran Alsdorf, from Wuerzburg. It was easy because most of the artworks are mine, but still a 5 hours task .
I am here submitting a PDF file I could save before she hid the links on her website. This is because I must show the evidence to some people outside DA.
Please note I couldn't cheat in any way here. I could not change the PDF file because Maran Alsdorf herself protected it with a password.

Whoever has the patience to watch the PDF, accompanying every page with the links I wrote below, will find a 100% proof of guilt for the theft. There also are little funny moments in it.

In my explanations (alas!) I'm showing some of the tricks I use to watermark my works, but I'm keeping a couple of other for myself.

You can view the file to check my claims. I mean no copyright infringement to the thief who stole my art and published it on this book (Yeah I know this sounds surreal). Anyway this PDF has been publicly visible and downloadable for a long time on the thief's website.
******* WHOEVER BOUGHT THIS 'BOOK': ASK FOR A FULL REFUND. IT'S AN ILLEGAL FRAUDULENT COPY YOU DON'T WANT TO BE INVOLVED WITH (BELIEVE ME AND THE LAWS) *******

There are few works in the file which aren't mine, here listed. I've notified the rightful owners, thanks.

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Attention: there were many other collections and books she offered on sell, similar to this one. She deleted the links but she still owns them! I received no response to my cease and desist communication so she isn't out of this yet. Hiding her hand isn't enough.
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This is the list of my original works in this book, stripped out of my signature and often cropped and/or flipped over.

FRONT COVER vidom.deviantart.com/art/Yarlu… - where the back pic is a photo of Alps I took from my house, obviously still on my computer and not on hers.
BACK COVER vidom.deviantart.com/art/After… - Yeah she flipped it horizontally, so smart! And she deleted my signature but forgot to delete its shadow.
PAGE 06 vidom.deviantart.com/art/After… - Again flipped horizontally, yawn! Plus she didn't find my additional symbol similar to a fleur-de-lis which I often add to my works as additional watermark (on top left of my work, top right on her copy)
PAGE 07 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Bell-…
PAGE 08 vidom.deviantart.com/art/IMPER… - Again the sky is a sunset from my house, still on my computer.
PAGE 09 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Altan… - Yet another sky from my home, I can show the original pic to anyone. She can't
PAGES 10/11 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Memor… - She flipped it again, but she had to work a little to put it on 2 pages, since I chose a non-standard proportion here.
PAGE 12 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Morni… - Flipped, she couldn't understand my fleur-de-lis in the very center is a watermark and she didn't delete it.
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*** PAGE 13 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Atmos… - THE 100% PROOF! Here she fell into my trick of double signature. She found one signature, so she didn't search for another one. On the left you can easily read VIDOM.DEVIANTART.COM and that has been visible on every book she printed and sold

. Even if she later deleted it, the fact my signature is in this PDF file says a lot (she put a password on the PDF, preventing me to alter the proofs in any way)
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PAGE 14 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Mande…
PAGE 15 vidom.deviantart.com/art/A-rec…
PAGE 16 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Super… - You obtain this version from the next work in this list just applying a precise color map I made, used, saved on my computer.
PAGE 17 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Super… - The naked version of the previous work in this list
PAGE 18 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Forma… - Recolored
PAGE 19 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Muto-…
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PAGE 20 An artwork form one of my favorite fractal artists ever (Len1): www.deviantart.com/art/Light-C…
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PAGE 21 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Plus-…
PAGE 22 vidom.deviantart.com/art/About…
PAGE 23 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Hikar… - Recolored/desaturated
PAGE 24 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Baker…
PAGE 25 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Vesse… - On the bottom right of her version it's still visible the mess she made to delete my signature

. In my original version the curves are smooth of course.
PAGE 26 vidom.deviantart.com/art/South…
PAGE 27 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Delta… - Another genial flipping editing

PAGE 28 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Gamma… - Decolored and desaturated
PAGE 29 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Aquap… - Flipped, this uses another sky from my home and the picture is on my computer.
PAGE 30 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Ore-r… - To delete my signature, probably with a Photoshop automatic area fill, she added a line that's not even part of the fractal.
PAGE 31 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Secur… - In its simplicity, I can prove paternity of this one in 2 different ways, since the view beyond the door is of a second fractal I have with its own parameters on my computer

PAGE 32 vidom.deviantart.com/art/The-s…
PAGE 33 vidom.deviantart.com/art/T-60-… - The distorted starry view beyond the window is a starry sky I personally made, too
PAGE 34 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Three… - I almost couldn't recognize this one, so flipped and so stripped off my signature! Ah ah! Kidding

PAGE 35 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Eridi…
PAGES 36/37 vidom.deviantart.com/art/Forma… - Ah ah! She put again the same drawing as in previous pages, but this time not recolored