Hey Yanes, I know you seem to think this is some conspiracy theory against you, but it’s not. As a curator you should know how you present your works matters and crazy enough people will actually believe the words you say. So, when you present a works as something brand new and me, a curator, goes to look since my curation project voted on it, just to find that you have taken an old works and painted over it.. it makes me wonder what else you are “not telling.”

Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with posting old works or taking an old works and making something new with it. It’s just when it’s presented as something new, when it’s really not, it sort of feels as if an author is trying to get new rewards for an old work. There is nothing illegal about it, and no one is going to kick you off the platform but I think we have the right to state the information was incorrect or even, better yet, just choose not to curate it.

Here is a wonderful example of an artist being forthcoming about taking an older work and making something new with it. https://steemit.com/ntopaz/@donnadavisart/ntopaz--donnadavisart--837466237--ntopaz-drawing-art-sndbox-steemartists--2019-02-09-09-54-26--artwork--none

Did she owe us the platform an explanation? No, of course not. But it sure is appreciated as we as curators are trying to reward the authors that add value here, and there are a lot of individuals trying to take advantage. So it’s more of a mutual respect thing rather than some sort of “law.”

The great thing is each user here as well as each curation guild gets to choose who and what they will and won’t curate, that’s the beauty of a free world. So I hope that in the future when you “paint an older work” you don’t present it at something brand new, and if you do, please don’t be offended if a curator asks you if it’s new or old. We probably already know anyways, and are just giving you the benefit of the doubt.

No one is after you, and no one that I know of is “hurt” by any artist posting new or older works. We all would just rather have the artist tell us it’s an older work, rather than us finding out (because we always do) and feeling as if an artist is trying to deceit us by passing it off as something new.

Curators and curation guilds are big supporters of the art world here on Steem, in fact.. it’s my favorite thing to curate. It’s just some curation groups actually want to protect artists too and therefore are always working to avoid plagiarism, and other forms of “stealing” to ensure the right individuals are being rewarded. This is a personal choice by each curation group and user. Many don’t seem to mind and gladly give votes to these sorts of things, others will not. But, no one is running anyone off the platform.. we can all just simply choose to curate what we want. Asking the artist to be forthcoming and honest just helps us to reward the content for what it is, whether it’s old or new.

I hope this has made things a bit more clear to you, please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Justine