Despicable case of art theft

I'm going to use this freebie round of mine to let you know about something I've already posted on yourpants about, along with emailing some newspapers etc. As an artist and a member of the deviantart community along with other art communities, this subject is close to my heart.

Here's the post I made, which I am pretty much quoting word for word here (I encourage you to comment on the thread on the forums to bump it so people can spot it easier and thus get involved).

Hello, fellow nerdfighters! I'd like to call your attention to something and encourage you to spread information about it and possibly even donate to the lawyer fees if you want. So, on to the matter at hand:

Recently the artist community of deviantart.com discovered that presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman's nephew, Chad Lieberman, has been operating several sites (art4love.com and markyourspot.com) in which he sells art for hundreds if not thousands of bucks per piece, claiming it's all made by him. Turns out he has stolen most, if not all, of the art featured on his site from all over the online artist community, especially deviantart, the largest community of artists online. He has stolen from over 100 artists and earned quite a bit of money from this stolen art.

It was all discovered by the online community when there was an article published about him, speaking of 'his projects' in a positive tone, on the South Florida Chronicle (http://sflchronicle.com/news/enterta...ultimedia-art/).

His first site, art4love was forced to close down because of copyright infringement but he soon set up another site, markyourspot.com. Which was also closed down rather recently, but he has shown no signs of stopping, rather lone remorse.

Now several artists from deviantart, led by one known as alexiuss (http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/) , are banding together, gathering money and evidence (which there is already plenty of) to bring upon a class action lawsuit against Chad Lieberman. Alexiuss' goal is to hire the best copyright lawyer in Toronto to handle this large case.

More information can be found here, in one of alexiuss deviations. The image contains some proof of stolen art and background story: http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/M...MENT-253771563 In the artist's comment there is also a link for a place where you can donate money for the lawyer fees.

And here is a more comprehensive list of known stolen art, showing their original creators and images of the now closed site art4love. It's all in the form of flash images that you can browse by clicking the arrows on the images. There are three separate parts and artists are listed in the information box below the image.

Part 1: http://gene-ash.deviantart.com/art/A...-art-253359597
Part 2: http://gene-ash.deviantart.com/art/A...rt-2-253778066
Part 3: http://gene-ash.deviantart.com/art/A...rt-3-253782704

Deviants (members of deviantart), including me, have made several blogs and articles about this matter on deviantart, as artists world wide have become enraged by this. There are hundreds of comments of people expressing their disgust.

Here is a link to a blog that has collected several screen shots of articles and posts in which Chad Lieberman incriminates himself: http://redbeancookie.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/chad-love-part-deux/ Apparently some places have started to take them down if the author of the entry is to believe.

Here are some extra journal/article links:
Blog on the subject by cartoonist (and nerdfighter) Tom Peterson: http://tompreston.deviantart.com/journal/43383753/
An article of discovering that after being forced to close down art4love due to copyright, Chad Lieberman set up another site, markyourspot.com: http://news.deviantart.com/article/158845/