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WOW, you aren’t kidding! She is claiming several Maggie Austin’s cakes, and many cakes I have seen here! I mean really, claiming you made William and Kate’s wedding cake on Facebook? It’s almost laughable. Crazy!

And what about the Verusca walker snake cake.. As if!!! It’s ridiculous :/

I messaged Maggie Austin on her Facebook page. Maybe if more cake artists knew about it, Facebook will do something.

It is totally ridiculous! If you have the patience to scroll all the way down to 2012, you can see the true standard of her work!

Wow, almost all the cakes on there belong to others. What a nerve!

if you leave a comment that what she’s doing isn’t legal she start to send you private messages that she has friends who can visite you. I left several comments but I’m blocked now ;-)

I’ve been blocked by someone else too. She was doing the same thing actually thanking people for their comments.

Appalling behaviour! I can never get my head round why people do this?

This is why it’s more and more important to watermark everything. At least then your name appears and it’s obviously been stolen…

Hehe I can no longer comment on that page and she has removed my comments. At least, I kept her busy for awhile.

Unbelievable!
I’ve posted a couple of tweets – she can’t delete or block those.

Goreti I saw your comments and I knew that dhe would remove this.., it’s sad :(

Unfortunately this happens a lot! These people think they can just use other peoples photos as if they are their own! Here is another person doing the same thing! https://www.facebook.com/Bitty26 More than 50% of the photos are not hers! I have sent multiple messages to her and she did remove my photo but she just does not think she is doing anything wrong! I tried to get her removed but since she does not have one of my photos on her page now I can not do anything. I hope you can get her page taken down!

The funny thing is most of these people it is sooo easy to spot their work. There is usually a huge different in the work that I am so surprised that the people commenting don’t spot it.

I really don’t understand it at all…….

It’s unbelieveble. And can’t we denounce this page on facebook?

We’re trying to but she is so tenacious…

I agree this is completely wrong to do. But what about people who make a cake replicating someone else’s work; changing little to nothing? Is that not also plagiarism? To me I find that much more insulting. We all do some kind of referencing before making a cake, wether that be looking up design aesthetic , techniques, colors, etc.; but I find it infuriating when someone makes a cake replica. It’s happen here and other many sites. Someone taking other people’s work, wether claiming a cake photo as their own or making a cake replica is wrong. If you find a cake that you love, change it by 80 percent. If nothing else, at least give the person you stole from the credit they deserve.

Obviously, there’s no consistency in their work quality. It’s not difficult to spot a liar. Some people just don’t see it

in this bulgarian e-commerce site even remove our logos and watermarks and insert theirs! I sent messages via e-mail and on the online form without an answer.
This is my cake
https://www.facebook.com/dolcideacreazioni/photos/a.712179305518508.1073741829.712150605521378/926144520788651/?type=3&theater
and this is what they sell saying that a Bulgarian master did it http://sladka-bulgaria.bg/en/dekoratorska-cake-masha-and-the-bear?sort=p.model&order=DESC

and this site put its own logo where it was mine
http://www.shadkonak.com/product/364/%DA%A9%DB%8C%DA%A9-%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%AC%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%AA%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D8%A7-%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7-%D9%88-%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%B3

they do not have an email and if I try to send an online form I have to type a captha in persian that i can not even translate with google translate :(
What can we do?