UI Credit/Work Stolen

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#1

Hi, So Recently I made some UI for my game i’m working on and it’s located on my forum account, or via this link:

A friend of mine dm’d me claiming that some guy was tryna take credit for my work, showing it off as his own, as seen here:

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how do I pursue from this? I’m unaware as to the whole DMCA issue considering it isn’t a published game (from my knowledge)

Any sort of help would be appreciated.

#2

Where is he trying to show it off as his own? Depending on where it is, there are different courses of action.

#3

He was hired from another group and they paid him 5k robux and he ghosted them but used my image as his “Work,” to them.

#4

Was he hired through the Talent Hub or some other place? How did he initially get in contact with the victims?

#5

I haven’t a clue, I was just dm’d via a friend who knew who hired him and the guy used my work to showcase his “portfolio,” in a sense. I believe via discord.

#6

If it was through a discord server specifically for hiring people, such as HiddenDevs, they usually have rules against stealing work, so you should report it to the admins of the server.

I doubt they’ll be able to get their 5k robux back.

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How’d they not notice the baseplate being in 2 places at once in a single viewport though

#7

Appreciate the support, I’ll try narrow down how they were hired and seek action from there.

#8

Hi Seargent i hired JDeveloper as a programmer and ui designer via talent hub for a upcoming game i was working on.

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During the conversation between me and him he was persistent on me sending him downpayment which is understandable but it became extremely persistent to the fact i started to second guess. I then paid out 5k to him via a gamepass

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As shown here the orginally downpayment was 25k which was later reduced and agreed to 5k.

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as shown purchase was made.

After this i then proceeded to add him into studio where this is when he proceeds to Imitate and send ShotgunRound’s ui work which i didn’t know was his work until i showed my friend Crowdsicle who then showed shotgunrun.

This is the ui screenshot JDeveloper the guy i hired provided me with to show he was “progressing and doing work”

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in this screenshot we can see ShotgunRound Work being using without me acknowdlging this at the time but later being revealed and we can also see JDeveloper again insisting on me dropping more amounts of robux for his “Plugins” he needed to resume the project. After i refused to do this as we had both agreed on 5k now 45k when project is done ontop of telling him all payments will be going directly to him and no 3rd parties will be involved as he was sending me gamepasses that weren’t linking to his account

Here are the gamepasses he sent incase the accounts that are linked to them are needed.

i was then ignored and left on delivered for 3 days now. Today being the 3rd day is when i shotgunround was showed that his work is being using unauthorizedly ontop of jdeveloper portraying it as his own

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#9

Thank you for showcasing me all of the proof, I’ll try my best to pursue action based on this information.