Furry

oh boy... that was bound to happen sooner or later to be honest. almost anyone posting art to major platforms will have someone cross post that to e621 eventually and its really up to you if you are ok with that, or want to do something about it

is that legal? can they do that?

thats really much more of a question for a copyright lawyer (which im not), but that depends on the license of the art. unless stated otherwise and assuming that the work is even copyrightable, everything is usually all rights reserved, which (as far as i know) does make redistribution illegal in most jurisdictions. if it was licensed as CC-BY for example, this post should be ok since you are listed as the artist and have links back to your profile and the post itself

but thats the neat part! copyright rarely stops people from distributing art and memes

why is my art there if i don’t even like the 18+ stuff

for all kinds of reasons... for me (when i get bored enough) its always a "the archive must grow" kind of deal. there is this sort of desire to have everything nicely tagged and uploaded in one massive archive. it doesnt really have anything to do with being 18+ or not. there is lots of non-18+ artwork on there as well, but we all know thats not what people think of first. if anything, someone saw your art somewhere and thought it should be added to e6 so others can see it too. i dont think that the uploader had any ill intentions. they probably didnt even think that you might have reservations since youre not listed as DNP

i know there’s a takedown form

nice! have you also seen the DNP list? sending a takedown request will affect one post iirc, getting added to DNP goes a bit farther. getting added to DNP will either deny anyone from uploading your art, or will only allow certain uploads under certain conditions. for example you might be able to request that only original artwork without edits is posted

hope that semi-infodump gives at least some answers :D

e621 in theory is a general archive site for furry art, it's not just adult stuff. A lot of it is adult stuff, but I guess that just comes with the territory of furry stuff.

I think it's technically illegal, so they've got a "do not post" list. You can ask to be put on that list and people should stop posting your art there. They do give credit, which is better than a lot of art scraping places, but it's up to you.

Congrats on making art popular enough for people to want to archive, though. :P

I'm not affiliated with them, but I believe they post anything they find and want to feature once they find on FA and Twitter. I wouldn't say they're stealing it though. They post the source and name of you as the artist. I don't see how it's different than if there was a NSFW furry art community on Lemmy and they posted a link to it there.

They do have a safe for work version of the site too, keep that in mind.

If you still want it removed, there's a t link to a Do Not Post list at the bottom of the form so they don't post any of your art. I'm sure they'll remove it quickly

There's plenty of sfw and wholesome stuff on e621. It isn't just a porn site.

Was it actually e621 or was it e629? e629 hosts tame furry art and is basically the SFW version of 621.

In either case, you can contact the admins about getting on the DNP list if you don't want your stuff posted there without permission.