Well this would be a first for me writing to everyone watching me. As you can tell I don't do much on DA. I'm not a big artist, but I do hope to submit something soon...maybe. Well, the reason I'm writing right now, is the simple fact to tell everyone that if you added to your favorites the Dev ID I had up; it has been removed as so stated:

FoFLnubVictory,

1 deviation of yours, listed below, has been removed from deviantART due to a violation of our policies:

Title: Dev ID
URL: [link]
Submitted: 2006-06-25 9:01:15 pm

Your deviation was removed due to violation of one of the following policies:

An administrator has removed your deviation as being a violation of copyright.

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Now I never claimed the artwork as mine, I cleary stated who did the work, it was even on the artwork. However by careful reading, I see that even if the art was not mine, and I gave credit were credit is do, I have made some error. I have no problem with that.
I do however, have an issue with DA calling what I did a form of plagiarism and/or copyright infringement. If that was the case, then I would not have cited the material, as I did. I do see that if the artwork is not mine then I should not post it, even with work cited.
I just feel that the words used with in this "generic" violation statement, should be reworded for people that actually cite work to work they did not create. I'm sure if the admins looked around they would find work that does not belong to someone and it is not cited.