I am a digital and traditional artist. I have been working full time as an artist for 10 years. I love to draw on botanical themes, inspiring girls, and funny animals. I collaborate with many stores around the world and my works are known all over the world and are especially successful in Europe and are bestsellers. Because of this, a side effect is created – when the works are very famous, they begin to be stolen. I was very shocked, sometimes despondent and depressed. This whole situation was not very rosy because it hit not only my income but also my internal motivation to create further.

At the end of 2023, we signed an agreement with Edwin James and they began active work, several managers wrote to me in parallel and conducted active correspondence to establish all legal documents in order to catch all violators. Now it’s the end of 2024 and I recently received the first compensation for all violations that were tracked by the Edwin James team. And this is a colossal effort by the entire team! I am infinitely grateful to everyone from Edwin James!

Now the work on tracking the violators continues and I fully know that justice exists and is under reliable protection: legal, financial and psychological! With the money that I received as compensation for copyright infringement, I will be able to launch my own creative business that I dreamed of and I will also be able to have vision correction surgery and will be able to see this world 100% and this is priceless for an artist.

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