Chad Love Lieberman is a talented multimedia pop artist, whose works sell for thousands. For those not willing to drop the cost of trailer home on a painting, he runs art4love.com, where you can buy prints of his work for a fraction of the cost of the original. Sounds great, right? High-quality, beautiful art pieces that will definitely be the talk of any party in the same room they’re hanging in.
There’s just once teeny problem. Chad Love Lieberman is a FAKE. He steals images from popular art website deviantArt, markets them as his, and sells prints and ‘originals’ for exorbitant prices, and the real artists are never once credited, paid, or even informed that their art is on another website. That’s called art theft. It’s a scam. A few artists who have been stolen from can be found with a simple google search for ‘Chad Love Lieberman’ and ‘deviantArt’.
After he steals this art, he turns around and uses the money to pay $800 a month on testicle insurance. You read that right. He pays insurance on his balls. Just the fact that he insures his balls kind of makes you think he’s scum, right? Add that to being an art thief, and one can only think the worst. A few of the newer comments in that article, starting August 16 this year, will also tell you how he got that money.
His sites, art4love.com and markyourspot.com, while down at the time of this writing (likely due to threats of legal action from the victims of his theft), is where he “licenses” digital art to be sold. This article praises his creativity and intuitiveness, but scrolling down to the comments reveals how real artists feel about his business practices.
If there’s anyone out there who doesn’t understand the impact of this, let me hit you with a little scenario. You’ve just spent hours, weeks, or even months of active time creating something uniquely ‘you’: a scrapbook, a great concept for a novel, blueprints for the house you want to build, whatever. Whatever it is, you care for it, A LOT. You love it, you’re proud of it, and you want to show off your success to other people so they can feel good for you too. Then someone comes up and takes it away. They steal your scrapbook or novel or house plans. You later find these things again, and they’re being sold or taken advantage of, and there is little to nothing you can do about it by yourself. The person who took it is making thousands of dollars, and you aren’t even credited for being the author.
How would you feel? The victims are hurt, angry, and probably feel lost and alone. Some wannabe celebrity has taken their hard work and is making a ton of money for his ball insurance, and these people don’t know what to do. Help the victims and concerned art fans spread the word and get this guy stopped.
this is why you should watermark EVERYTHING as heavily as possible. keep the real art stowed away on your comp where no one can get it.
A lot of the artists did actually watermark their works, he simply painted over them and sold them as his own.
You know, there are two things about watermarks.
1. They are two-edged sword. As they provide protection, they usually ruin the artwork. Imagine it like a tall guy with afro hair in front of your cinema who is obscuring your vision so you actually see nothing. Watermarks hide most of details and everything, and… yes, if watermark is all you can see on the artwork, why create an artwork in the first place?
2. As Actual Real Artist said, if somebody has time, no watermark will stop him from stealing the artwork. He’ll simply paint over. If you sell stuff for 1k în dollars, few hours you need to cover up a watermark aren’t really a problem.
Well way to go guy. Lack of talent must really suck, to the extent you steal. It’s cool though, lawsuits hurt like a mother f****r. See you in court.
Checking out his picture with Paris is clearer quality… It is obvious it is not even real. Digital artifacts, pixelated edges and blurmarks all over this picture show it was a very sloppy photoshop job.
http://www.prlog.org/11564349-chad-love-lieberman-art4love-art-4-love.jpg
The guy cant even post a real picture, hes that much of a fraud… Besides, what dope would leave the website name on the photo where he got it done?
YellowMug.com is a mac image manipulation program. LOL. Hes not only a fraud and a thief, he’s as thick as a brick also.
This guy is trash. Plain and simple.
You’d think for a nephew of a politician, he would know better, or maybe he just though that since he is related to someone in politics that he can do whatever he feels like without worries.
If you feel you need to steal someone else hard work to make a name for yourself, you deserve being sued to the point that you end up eating your own hat to survive.
I can’t wait to see him get what is coming. I will see you in court for stealing something of mine you vile sack of cat vomit.
No… Even a vile sack of cat vomit is too classy for you.
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Screenshots of Chad’s many lies:
http://redbeancookie.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/chad-love-part-deux/
Hey, I got this from Smartag Int. (I think it’s another front for Art4Love):
Art4Love, Inc. provides a range of fine art and art-related services to corporate clients with various facets of their art needs. It secures the distribution, leasing, and sales rights of visual art. The company has access to the works of 1,200 artists, representing the rights of approximately 15,000 pieces of artwork by established and emerging artists. It also offers a range of consulting services, including framing, installation, disposition, digital image licensing, limited edition prints, portraits, and commissioned work. In addition, the company, through its subsidiary, Art4Love Images, Inc., collects fine art digital images that could be licensed to advertisers, designers, publishers, corporate communicators, and commercial marketers. Further, it offers legal services, which include representation and counsel on various issues from incorporation, tax preparation and optimization, real estate disputes, and contract review to its artist members; and provides discounted digital printing and production solutions for artwork. The company markets and sells its products primarily through the Internet. Art4Love, Inc. was co-founded by Chad Love Lieberman in 2000. The company is based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
I am an artist on deviantart.com. I wonder, could Lieberman be charged with insurance fraud? Think about it. He insured his balls for a huge sum of money. Then he’s caught stealing art from artists who, if they ever meet up with him, are very lickly to kick him in said insured balls. I know I would. Sounds like a plot to me.