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No. 65
ID: 490921
File: 12529736236.gif-(16.66KB, 100x100, betawolf.gif)
Real Name: Richard Helms
Current Alias: Betawolf
Other Known Aliases: Sinister Taz/snistrtaz
Applicable links:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/betawolf/
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/snistrtaz/
>>/wtfur/5380
Modus Operandi:
For the record - of what we know about Richard's activites as it pertains to actually commissioning people, he makes good on payments and doesn't cause much trouble with artists, nor does he whine if they refuse to draw the kind of content he wants. Helms is on this list for a wholly different reason.
Helms used to (and may still) operate under the delusion that he owns the copyrights to images he's commissioned from artists (and that he owns copyrights on ideas, which is impossible) simply by paying for the commission, which would give him the right to sue people and/or use the DMCA on sites that distribute said commissions on the Internet. He once threatened to sue e621 because they had several of his commissions on their site, and refused to listen to a number of people - including the administrators of that site - who tried to explain that he had no legal grounds to sue and that there were better ways of asking the admins to have those commissions taken down.
After this debacle, Helms made it clear that he would no longer buy commissions from artists without having them sell him the copyrights to the commissions; he also insinuated that he will eventually use these commissions to open up a paysite, assumedly to make money for himself without giving a cut of the subscription fees to the artists behind the images. He later openly admitted that he does plan to make a paysite with images he owns the copyrights to, but only after an artist who'd worked with Helms in the past revealed a very questionably-worded "contract" Helms had them sign prior to the commission work.
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