Don't even try taking my lawnmower he-he-he.. 

Thanks for advice, i have deleted those files from other stocks and certainly agree that other people's work should not be copied, but better used as reference and inspiration. Copying is boring and creating new is cool. Wish good sales to everyone!

Hey everybody,

I want to tell my short story about how DT has banned me. What happened seems not very fair to me, so i want to share it.

I was beginning selling vectors at stocks about year ago and uploading my first 100 images to DT, shutterstock and others. DT was selling rare, but selling some and i got about $70-80 by some time. But one day i have received an e-mail, saying that my account is banned permanently for copyright issue.

And DT showed me 2-3 of my images that i made using reference photos from internet. I admitted that it's true, though funny enough - one picture that they claimed to be original from shutterstock, in fact was same as mine - traced from photograph. Other two accusations were correct - those photos i used to trace my vectors. Well, one of them was simplified graphics and hardly resembled photo, the other one was just as photo, very detailed. This work took me several days to complete and i would call it rather my personal work based on image, than tracing. And those pictures are still selling elsewhere but DT and did not get any complains.

Anyway, let's agree that i used photos that i should not have used. My guilt, i admit it. But interesting thing is also how banning was performed - account blocked permanently and all money taken from me without any questions. Money that i got from selling not only those pictures, but all of my content.

And this looks quite like crookery to me, sorry to say that. Writing to DT official who has banned me returned silence.

That was my story, thanks for reading.