02-17-2014, 09:41 PM
You essentially can't, but you are protected as the creator of your original piece of art ( you own the rights to your personal work so are legally protected from someone stealing it), big game companies and studios won't do this as they employ artists for their ideas and abilities they won't tell those artists to go and use someone elses work.
There is also the factor of if your art is well known enough (I'll use dave rapoza's turtle images as an example) So if someone took one of dave's ninja turtle images and tried to pass it off as their own you can bet someone will know who the originator is and will call the person who is claiming it is theirs out on it and the message will probably get back to dave who can then request the person stop.
Also any artist with integrity would not take someone else's work and claim it as their own as art work is extremely personal to the creator so they wouldn't want to take someone elses work.
I don't think you need to really worry about it, just concentrate on improving and working on your ideas :).
There is also the factor of if your art is well known enough (I'll use dave rapoza's turtle images as an example) So if someone took one of dave's ninja turtle images and tried to pass it off as their own you can bet someone will know who the originator is and will call the person who is claiming it is theirs out on it and the message will probably get back to dave who can then request the person stop.
Also any artist with integrity would not take someone else's work and claim it as their own as art work is extremely personal to the creator so they wouldn't want to take someone elses work.
I don't think you need to really worry about it, just concentrate on improving and working on your ideas :).