Category: Notices

Original Post Date- 3/15/14, 11:52 PM Central Standard Time

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past year,
you are probably aware of 2 past issues I’ve had
with Jenny’s Designz (aka Jenny Pierce)
ripping from my FTU Pink’d kit to make kits of her own.

The other night I found yet another (gasp!)
kit of hers where she ripped from my kit again.
Again? you ask. Yes, again. *sigh*

Now at first I thought maybe she just
made the one kit FTU & posted on her blog.
Nope. That isn’t the case. >.<

The name of the first kit from Jenny was Burlesque Gurl.
The second kit I found my items in was named
Linda’s Emo Music- a kit I had to BUY to see
if my items were in it like I’d seen on a CT tag.
Mind, I was never reimbursed for that blastin’ kit.

No, this third kit has a different name- Emo Bad Gurl,
which you can find in a list of links, here.
(UPDATE- Jenny has removed the post &
her C-box from her blog).
I encourage you download the kit, open my Pink’d kit
& compare the items. Then, click on the properties of
the similar items & look at the creation dates.
The creation date is June 18, 2012 on both.

When I made the Pink’d kit originally, it was on that date.
It WAS a PTU kit & had gone into the ART store on
20, June 2012, as you can see on this post.
*I have since unpublished posts on that blog due to pirating. -Magik

I made the kit FTU in Apr. of last year. See here.
*Since my blog is closed, that FTU post
has been reposted here. -Magik 11/06/2019

Now, on a side note, the creation date of her preview
for this kit is ‎Thursday, ‎May ‎02, ‎2013…
so how in the HELL can she have items
dating back older than that creation date?

You know what, while you’re looking at the
properties of her elements, are you noticing
that other items have an older creation date?
This is because she is RIPPING everyone’s kits!!!

At this point I can’t even say if I’m mad,
frustrated, or what. I really don’t know.
BUT! I am considering making a tally on my blog
of just how many kits she’s made with items
from my Pink’d kit in it.
I swear she LOVES using that kit. =/

And I also know this- if she has downloaded
ANY of my Commercial Use items from my blog,
her license to use them is REVOKED.
Yes, Jenny that means you need to delete ANYTHING
you have gotten from my blog.
You do NOT have permission to use anything from me.
AT. ALL.

Once a thief, always a thief.
As for those of you who wish to
continue supporting her- just… why?

And one last thing…
Yes, I’m going to continue to watch her.
Yes, I’ll keep calling her out on her ripping kits.
Maybe one day we can all hope she’ll actually stop.

Original Post Date- 5/4/13, 1:28 PM Central Standard Time

I’ve decided to add these posts over here,
since they tend to get referenced a LOT.
And I strongly feel that other designers & taggers
should be allowed to have this information. -Magik 11/05/2019

I’m not sure how to even begin this post.
I’m not one to post anything ‘drama’-related
or to post random ‘bitchiness’ or complain on my blog.
I try to stay ‘professional’ at all times,
regardless what it may pertain to.
It’s how I am- how I’ve always been with anything I’ve done.

However, I can say I’m a bit disappointed
that someone had to take advantage of my kindness.
Likewise, I’m equally upset to see other designers
taken advantage of as well.

I was kind enough to make some of my PTU kits FTU
for many of you to enjoy-
knowing that there are some people in the tagging community
that simply cannot afford to buy new kits.
I also do what I can to try to make FTU sampler kits
at times for the same reason.
I honestly don’t mind doing this.
I love doing it if & when I can.

BUT! It does piss me off when someone has to take
things out of my kit to make their own kit-
either for a free kit or PTU kit.

An example-
Someone emailed me to download this person’s kit.
Jenny’s Designz is the designer of this kit.
The email I got said I’d be surprised when I unzipped it.
The ‘designer’ who made the kit decided to rip apart
my Pink’d kit for her ‘Burlesque Gurl’ kit.

Eight items from my kit are in her kit.
In my screen shots of the kits side-by-side,
you can see they’re the same- same size, same colour
& the creation date is the same.
Here’s the examples.

In the examples above, My Pink’d kit is on
the right, her Burlesque Gurl kit is on the left.
The original date that I created my kit was back
in mid- June of 2012, which was posted on my old
blogger blog.
*I did not repost the initial kit release on this site blog.
-Magik 11/05/2019

And the date I made this FTU was 4/19/2019 @ 3:04 PM.
I had updated the preview in late March, but the
elements were made a year ago, when I originally created it.
Her kit was ‘made’ on Apr. 25 of this year,
by looking at the date of the preview.
*The reposting can be found here. -Magik 11/05/2019

On a side note, my kit was only updated to remove
10 elements that were not allowed for free kits.
It is otherwise original. And like on the original preview
& on the updated one, it clearly states that the kit
is for Personal Use only.
This is also stated clearly in my TOU which is
included in the zipfile of the kit.

What bothers me most, is I paid for many of the
Commercial Use items I used in my kit-be it scripts,
element packs, templates, etc… she did not-
at least not for the elements she stole from my kit.

I know other designers go through this as well.
It bothers me people have to be dishonest like this. =/
It simply proves that the thieves who steal from others’
kits to make their own have no consideration for the money
we paid for the items we put in our kits.
Nor do they have consideration for the time we take
to create the kits we sell or offer free.

Now I can only suggest that any designers,
Creative Team members for other designers, etc.
to pass this info on for others to download her kits
& see if she’s ripped others’ kits to make her own.
I’ve seen elements in another FTU kit of hers I decided
to download as well & the elements that are in that kit
were originally created over 3 years ago.
… And my guess is she’s just transferring elements from
kits into her kits that she’s making.

With that being said, I have another former PTU kit
I was going to post here as FTU as well as 2 FTU
sampler kits I was planning on posting soon as well…
BUT! I’m considering not doing this for a while.
I might just offer the downloads off my Facebook
page to my friends. I don’t want to do this-
as it seems unfair to ‘punish’ honest people
because of the wrong-doings of someone else.
However, I must admit I’m feeling a bit ‘sour’ on this whole deal.

Original Post Date- 1/22/13, 8:07 PM Central Standard Time

I got an email from Linda. She wanted to try my Valentines Is Cancelled tutorial for a challenge that is posted in a forum.

She messaged me because the template I used for the tut… well, the owner has closed her blog & no one can access the download.

At the time I’d wrote the tutorial, the blog was open, so that posed a bit of a problem for Linda (& any others who may have the same issue).

So, I am offering the template to be downloaded from me, ONLY for use in trying the tutorial. All I ask is to please, please check the blog the template originally came from to see if its open before you download from me. After all, she should be getting the downloads. 😉

With that being said, I would also like to state that I am not claiming any kind of ownership, copyrights, etc. for the template. They belong to the person who created the template. And I do have a ‘disclaimer’ in the download that says the same. 😉

So here’s the template, but again, check that blog first.

Thank you & have fun with the tutorial. =)
CBN Tamplate 159

*hugz*