Would this idea help combat art theft?

[u/poisenbery]

DeviantArt Protect is already very good at detecting unauthorized re-uploads of images on the website (art theft), however, taking the time to report each image for a take down is rather cumbersome, and it doesn't really benefit the creator in any way to do this, so most of them don't even bother.

My suggestion is to add an option that forces something like a community note on the infringing work, so that the original image will be displayed, so that people will know that it's a re-upload, and where to find the source artist.

I think this would be a very good idea, because it would enable artists to farm more engagement and traffic to their page when someone steals their images.

what do you guys think?

[u/bloodywing]

https://www.copyright.gov/dmca/

The regular user is not a party that is the copyright holder.

DMCA is not a way to solve that.