Fancy Fairy Second Life News

I’ve got a new gift at the SL Shop & Hop, and news about a copycat that doubled down at the We <3 Roleplay event

Second Life photo of a slender pale female avatar wearing a purple & black corset, skirt and tattered fairy wings

I didn’t get accepted for my own booth for the Second Life Shop & Hop sales event happening in world, so I’m sharing space with my good friend Siyu Suen of Illusions, who makes the jewelry and ears I’m wearing here. At the front counter you’ll find a couple gift boxes, the round hat box contains the tattered Teasel Unseelie fairy wings you see here. These are solid rather than transparent so no alpha glitch, and this version features lots of holes & tatters.

I’m also wearing a brand new mesh corset loosely based on historical stays that was made for me by a pro based on my sketches, and an optional skirt. I’m still working on texturing as well as on the Titania 3.0 wings so it’s not out yet, but keep an eye out for it soon!

Fairyzette Sahara strikes again

Side-by-side images showing my real life Acorn wings on the left and the infringing SL copy on the right

I’ve posted in my blog about this creator a few months ago already as she’d copied several of my designs, so I was shocked to find she’d gone and released one of them again with minimal changes at the October We <3 Roleplay event.
Below is the PrimFeed posts advertising the costume pack containing the wings, which has now been removed.

One of the big reasons I’m sharing details here is because of the way the situation was handled by the event owners / organizers, and my previous experiences with people who engaged in some form of slander / libel against me in retaliation for expecting them to follow their own rules they claim to enforce.

I didn’t have high confidence that this would be dealt with quickly due to my previous interactions with one of the owners, who admitted to ignoring my message to her about a different infringer because they weren’t selling the thing at her event specifically.
The only reason I did let her know, is because their rules seem to say that those who copy others’ work are not considered for their events, period, and a friend urged me to let them know, assuming they cared about copyright as much as we do.
After not hearing back from her for a couple weeks, my friend made a group chat with me and Voshie, the event owner, thinking she must have been really busy and missed the message.
Her response was “Hey there, I actually have received your message, however I chose not to respond as I feel like this is not WLRP's concern as it was never at our event.”

Considering her lack of concern, I didn’t have a lot of faith I’d get a response for this infringing creator either but I messaged her on Sept. 30th with screenshots of the prior DMCA removals & all my evidence, and sent the co-owner a message in world along with a notecard. I sent Voshie a notecard too, stating the facts of the matter.
I didn’t hear from anyone until late on Oct 1, when the co-owner asked me to send evidence of the DMCA because she ‘isn’t a fan of hear-say’, so I let her know I already sent all that to Voshie on Discord, but that I’d see if there’s anything else I can add.

The messages and notecards screenshots are below, nothing exciting there but if a rumor gets spread that I ‘pressured’ them or did anything else beyond what any copyright holder would do, I want the actual evidence all in one place showing my actual - and fairly polite at that - messages.

She at least had responded, although the “I’m not a fan of hear-say’ felt a bit like an accusation after already being brushed off by Voshie. I gave her the benefit of the doubt tho that maybe she didn’t mean it that way.
I sent Voshie extra screenshots and info, none of it necessary to see that Fairyzette was a repeat infringer as I’d already sent sufficient proof of that. See for yourself below.

And at the end of the day on the 3rd, which was already open to bloggers, and the night before opening day, I asked Arséne if this was still being addressed. She said they were still setting up and it would take some time. I still had hoped that they would take care of it before the event opened and sales started, but that didn’t happen. (screenshot of whole chat log at the bottom)
Her booth was up & ready for business.

Because it seemed the event owners / organizers were not giving this issue the urgency it deserved, I opened the group chat - and saw OTHER complaints of infringement. I learned Neon Sheep was accused of selling copybotted items. Their stall is also gone now, maybe that was a valid claim?
So I mentioned my own copycat issue without even mentioning her name yet, and nearly instantly got chastised for it and locked out of the chat.

Chat lag for We <3 Role-Play showing my comments on infringement and being locked out of the chat

Honestly, that wasn’t surprising, but the final response kinda was. I was still holding out hope that they’d make up somehow for taking so long to take care of this or at least have a better explanation why, and in the middle of the night after a full day of possible sales I got a message saying:
”Set up is done & also I do not appreciate that you are pressuring us about this that much. Thats said: We removed her since you provided us with the DMCA & we are hoping this matter will resolve itself for you. Best of luck!”

Screenshot of chat with Arséne

That was the extent of our communications, the screenshots can speak for themselves.
Should ‘we’re setting up’ still be an acceptable excuse by the time the event opens, sales start, and they could be liable as participants in contributory or vicarious infringement?
Genuinely, I’m curious if this kind of delay is standard in SL for sales events or not, as my only other experience was an organizer who removed the content very quickly and without snark.

The empty space where Fairyzette’s Les Sucreries De Fairy store sat, removed for copyright infringement

At least they did remove her booth, and I appreciate that they finally did what they were legally obligated to do.
I understand I may face backlash or exclusion for speaking out, but letting the public know what actually happened so misinformation doesn’t spread is important to me. I’d rather have the facts laid out here for all our sakes before a twisted version of events ends up on a site like the Virtual Burn Book.

I want honest customers who support artist rights to know when they may be unwittingly buying stolen IP based on my work, I know I would want to be informed.

Absinthe & Arsenic, Goblin Style

These toxically gorgeous wings drop on Monday, October 6 at 8pm PDT!

Iridescent green, blue and black fairy wings with antennae and small appendages sticking out from the tips, worn on a dress form, front view

Happy weekend fairies!

I've got this set of Goblin Princess fairy wings done in a variation of the Rollerbird painting that follows the Absinthe & Arsenic colorway I've dabbled in before, but this time I used the Opal iridescent film rather than the clear Diamond Fire for cooler toned greens with touches of blue.
They will be $489 plus shipping, and will be listing Monday night, Oct. 6 at 8pm PDT.

I hope to also have another set of wings if I can squeeze them in there but this might be the only set this week..

The listings will show up here at the start time:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

In my Second Life news, I was shocked to find out that one of the creators, Fairyzette Sahara of Les Sucreries De Fairy, who I reported for 3 different wing infringements early this year has actually doubled down and released one of them AGAIN with a few insignificant changes.

A side by side comparison showing my Acorn fairy wings on the left and the infringing copy by Fairyzette Sahara on the right

The sales event they were being sold at opened to the public yesterday, and after 4 days since I sent all the proof of ownership to the organizers the stolen content remained up until 1am this morning or so I’m told. Haven’t had a chance to check on it and there are RL things to take care of right now, so if there are any further updates I’ll make them here later.
Mentioning it in the event’s group chat yesterday since the organizers had still not acted, got me chastised for commenting and I was locked out of the chat, which is no surprise at this point. I've been learning that a lot of these events put language against copyright infringement in their rules but often don't actually care to enforce them or make them a lower priority than they should be :/
More on that on my PrimFeed account, which is a social media site for SL users:
https://www.primfeed.com/fancy-fairy-wings-things/posts/a3afd57b-df43-4b75-86e3-62cbffa05568
I might have more updates on this eventually.

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https://www.patreon.com/c/faeryangela

A Positive Update

I’m happy to provide this update:

Angela Jarman (myself) and Hey Ricochet were recently involved in a copyright infringement matter. We are pleased to share that the issue has been amicably resolved to the satisfaction of both sides. The parties agree that they took no intentional steps to harm each other. We appreciate the opportunity to address the matter constructively and are happy to move forward.

The Return of Fancy Fairy Wings in Second Life™

*There’s an update to one of the infringement stories further below about Fairyzette Sahara, who released one of the aready reported designs yet again, further down this page.

It’s been over 5 months that I’ve been quietly working nights & weekends to learn Blender and make proper mesh animated fairy wings in Second Life, and they are now complete!
Below is a quick peek at them in one of the colors (from the gender queer flag) from the Pride edition.

They aren’t ‘my’ flag colors - those would be the demi / ace, but this matched my Magnolia dress from Caverna Obscura too perfectly!
The Pride flag inspired pack of Iridescent Teasel 3.0 Bento Fairy Wings is now available, exclusively at the Androgyny Event at an introductory price through July 28!

25% of each sale of these is automatically donated to Second Pride & the It Gets Better non profit.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Calico%20Bay/165/58/2504

Here’s the product photo for ya

The essentials pack is also available there, as well as at my in world store and Marketplace. They cost 50L less in world, and current pricing of $350L is a lower introductory price.
Find them at the MP here:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Teasel-30-Iridescent-Bento-Fairy-Wings/27294913

Here’s the vendor image for them:

Image showing a female fairy with back turned towards us, her hands over her head & wings of light blue, magenta & white take up most of the image space. Text says 'Essentials Pack'

These are 100% original mesh and design. You may have seen this design on the grid (and a whole lotta places online) from people who've copied them in various forms without my permission, but I created this design way back in 2008 for SL and RL.

I made wings, clothes and skins back then before I dipped out for years due to outdated hardware & life struggles.

In 2017 I made some wings that used the bento bones and animations I made in Blender, but the wings themselves were flexi prims because I was so attached to the way flexi prims move in SL. But now I’m calling them ‘franken-flexi’ because of the issues that crop up with them - they required specific body heights & didn’t work for all avatars, and the big square prims would have a lot of alpha glitch with other partially transparent items, which was way more noticeable when a whole square area is glitching.

This time, I worked my fairy butt off nights and weekends learning how to make a proper mesh in Blender and made my own wing rig that allowed me to animate the upper and lower wing panels separately. Something I wish was possible in real life!
I also had help from an old SL friend, Siyu Suen of Illusions to get me up to speed on Blender and other things I needed to know about SL along with a lot of encouragement. I don’t know if I could’ve done it without her!

Here’s video of the animation HUD that’s included with the wings so you have a lot of control over what they’re doing:

My designs have often been copied without permission in SL

Many of my designs have been copied in Second Life, some ripped right from my SL wings and others used my RL wing photos as their designs & textures. Some made their own mesh but still copied the design itself rather than come up with something on their own.
This Teasel design was copied vein for vein a few years ago & became a best seller, by Aenea Christensen, who admitted to copying them but was still terrible about it all, and has been lying about me and the situation. Now on the changed version they state that their previous edition was ‘removed due to a malicious DMCA report’.
That’s pretty laughable seeing as how they’d already admitted to copying mine, specifically the veins, which is literally the core of the design. I had left comments in response to the claim that it was ‘malicious’ as I was upset they were lying about the situation, and this below was their response.

These days I wouldn’t bother to interact at all with an infringer’s content this way, and give the facts if necessary in my own space instead such as my own blog. Maybe I shouldn’t have left a review at all, I can acknowledge that. But it’s still upsetting to think someone is out there lying about my business & possibly harming sales when they were the ones to do something illegal.
Their links to wings they claim are the same were literally nothing at all like my Teasel design, but I’m sure they tell people I copied a nature design to deflect. They may be generally similar to fly wings, but there’s no duplicate of these in nature.
I’m also SO tired of the argument “you can’t copyright fairy wings” as if I’m trying to claim ownership of every single fairy wing out there, which I’m absolutely not. It’s a strawman argument I get all the time when people have no other good excuse.
I know, there’s the whole ‘you shouldn’t care what other people say about you’ but when it comes to someone’s reputation as a creator selling their art, especially when they’re just returning to the market & having to compete with people selling copies, I’d say it does matter.

Brands who’ve copied multiple wing designs

My Colette wing design was even offered as full perm in SL by Les Sucreries De Fairy, with only the inner veins changed a bit, but the unique outer profile was fairly exact. That shape is specific. They were also selling wings that copied pretty exactly the outer shape of my Fauna wings, and exact copies of my Acorn wings, and some that copied a lot of the outer shape of my Nimue wings. I sold the Nimue wing in SL, they might still be in my in world shop, and the others are all newer wings whose photos are always watermarked by me whenever posted anywhere online. You can see them for yourself if you click on the design names.
So the fact that they were selling that many copies of my wings is not cool. I reached out after reporting a couple of them and asked her to remove the remaining ones & not to copy mine or anyone else’s wings again. Although she did remove the remaining wings I never got a reply or an explanation at all.
This was the notecard I sent her in April, it mentions the Elida wings being removed already (the Acorn fairy wings copy was in that costume pack) but there must have been more of them or she did not delete them completely from her MP because LL sent me confirmation of removal.

The lack of an explanation or apology and the number of designs they copied, one of them full perm plus the size of their store and prevalence in many in world market events, warrant mentioning IMO. If I bought a stolen design I’d want to know myself.
Their latest wings look like they could be using someone’s photo as a texture but I don’t know that for sure, so take that with a grain of salt. If anyone sees more copies of additional designs please let me know. Below are screenshots of the copies except for the Nimue, which I didn’t grab screenshots of in time. They might still be in her Flickr somewhere, the texture inside was like a bright mozaic.

Update Oct. 7 2025, Fairyzette made the bad decision to make a few small changes to the copy of the Acorn Fairy Wings and released them AGAIN for the We <3 Role Play October event. I’ve fully documented everything that went down here.

I've also recently discovered my Pansy, licensed Amy Brown Bubble Rider, Bee fairy, and Nimue wings sold by Cherry Evergarden of Enchanted Delights & had them all removed via DMCA. As you can see, she used my actual photos and in the case of the Nimue wings she even used my texture from the SL wings I sold. These screenshots will show today’s date in the metadata because I originally took a PDF screenshot of the listings as it captured the entire page that way, but that won’t work for posting to this blog. I never heard from them, they simply relisted the costumes with different wing designs.

I also found my photos of my Painted Small Lizette wings copied & used as a wing texture sold by Faunus, and they used my Fly fairy wings photo for wings in an event hunt.
This was really disappointing, as I had admired their work and they’re a pretty well known brand for fantasy costuming & accessories in SL for fairies. I took a chance & reached out to them on Facebook to ask for removal since the hunt item would be tough to report. They replied and apologized, and they did remove the items.
Then they asked if I’d let them continue selling them & give me a percentage of sales. I politely declined, and after they acknowledged that, they blocked me. I appreciate that they did remove the content and apologized, but why on earth did they block me? That soured things when we could have possibly carried on as professional acquaintances & I was even planning on buying some of their outfits had they left things at the apology without blocking.
But not now. That’s a deal breaker for me, being blocked after getting caught infringing is always a bad sign leaves no room for trust. I don’t think I said anything that warranted that. Receipts below.

All these infringements may cause confusion to the customer who will question which one is the original, especially if the infringer sweeps it under the rug without notifying their audience of their removal. There are only a couple instances where they more than made up for things & even paid me without me asking, so all is forgiven and I won’t ever need to mention them.
I’ve never received a penny from any of the rest, most never bother with an apology either.

I am a staunch supporter of copyright, and creating something brand new is the fun part for me, so you won't find purchased stock photos or art in my wing work. I also don't enjoy using designs straight from nature as much as I do creating a fantasy design, so wearing my wings means you won't have the same stock designs that many other creators offer.

I may dabble in drastically re-texturing & styling full perm mesh clothing for fairies to go with my wings while I'm still working on my mesh skills, since making fitted mesh clothes from scratch seems like some kind of torture I can't wrap my brain around yet, but I'd have to be sure they're reputable & will state who the mesh is from if that happens.

I hope to populate my store in the coming months with more new wings, to bring all the fairies back to SL.

If you’d like to follow my Second Life updates, you can find me on PrimFeed here.

Rhinestones & Copycats

Another day, another infringement. Well, several of them actually. It really is never-ending y'all.

Often when I catch people using my photos of this design or copying it, they argue how "I see that design everywhere, it's been around forever!" , or "it's all over Pinterest" as if that makes it okay, and my favorite, "you don't own all fairy wings!"
But you see, it's 'been around forever' because I made it that long ago and it was popular enough to go viral, but almost always without credit to me.

Rhinestone iron-on from Heat Transfer Warehouse
There's another company that's been profiting off of my Teasel fairy wing design for a few years now.
I discovered that Heat Transfer Warehouse had been selling a rhinestone iron-on of my Teasel fairy wings design. Now, I'd been running into these rhinestone copies for a while now and every once in a while had to report them. Maybe this was the source?
I first sent a Cease & Desist letter on July 30th, which they ignored completely.

So I went ahead and reported the listing to their host, Big Cartel, who sent them a warning that it would be removed if they don't remove it themselves. They fortunately did remove it, but, I may go ahead and file a CCB claim because they've been making a profit off of my design and, continued to sell it after I sent the C&D. I think I should be getting at least a portion of those sales, they should have licensed the design from me if they wanted to use it.
Here's the rhinestone design with the actual photo of my Teasel wings that it looks like it was traced from overlayed on top with a transparency adjustment.

Image with fairy wing pattern in white dots representing rhinestones, with my original Teasel photo overlayed on it showing a match

This matches far too well to be a coincidence IMO. Even the wing in the foreground appears to be traced. Some changes were made to the bottom panels, which are simply copies of the upper panels in my original design, so again this is still substantially similar and a derivative.

I took a screenshot of the page while it was active, and according to the Internet Archive that page has been active since Sept. 2020. How many have been sold? How much should I have been paid in royalties?

Screenshot of Heat Transfer Warehouse's fairy wings rhinestone transfer listing while active

Since they removed the page themselves, they didn't end up with that embarrassing 'page not found' situation.

Copycat wing makers on Etsy from Ukraine
These next copycats have been more frustrating to deal with. Even though Etsy took them down when I reported them, one of them filed a counter notice, but since they're in Ukraine I can't sue and I can't even file a Misrepresentation Claim with the CCB because they only deal with entities in the US.

On July 16 I found 3 wing listings on Etsy that were copies of my Kira wings design by seller ReddoStore. Here's a screenshot of the listing for the purple wings:

Screenshot from ReddoStore's Etsy listing for purple fairy wings that copy the Kira fairy wings design, showing a woman wearing them from the back, sitting on a chair sideways

They were selling these in a few colors.  The design doesn't even really have any changes, it's absolutely copied. Here's a photo of me with those wings edited in - I made the overlays from photos of the actual wings.
Photo taken by Jordan Price.

Photo of a white woman with dark hair wearing giant purple Kira fairy wings, dark green corset, rainbow skirt and horned headdress

Near the end of August I discovered those same exact wings, but from a different seller who was also in Ukraine, OlenaOlenaStore.

Screenshot of listing from Etsy seller OlenaOlenaStore for purple wings that copy the Kira design, showing photo of a blond woman wearing them, back view

Same back brace & everything! I reported those too, and Etsy took them down. So far, no counter notice, but that doesn't mean they won't send one eventually. Unlike the time limit copyright owners have to send the service provider a court order to prevent the posts from going back up after the counter notice is sent, they don't have a time limit so they could very well send one at any time.

I don't think that's a fair system, that I have to show them proof of my design, but all the infringers have to do is sign a notice saying they have good faith belief that they didn't infringe.

I've had a lot of trouble with wing makers in Ukraine for some reason, these two aren't the only ones!

I've had to report infringements from this account, who still has posts up that copy my Kira design but Instagram won't remove the posts. Here she's using mini Kira wing copies without the veins to put onto a crown: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuq-6O3ow-I/

And advertising it on Etsy: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuxS3P4IZ2v/

Another thing I noticed is they have the same back brace as ReddoStore & OlenaOlenaStore, you have to look closely at their photos because the butterfly is being worn on the inside against their backs so it's not as immediately noticeable.

Photo from EywaDeco's website showing woman with back turned wearing transparent pink cicada fairy wings

 Here's a better pic, you can see the butterfly behind the wings here

photo of dark haired woman wearing ReddoStore copy of Kira wings in dark pink, viewed from the back

I'm not sure if there's someone selling the back braces or if they're all buying wings pre-made and reselling, but it sure seems like reselling if 2 different unrelated sellers are selling the exact same product and that breaks Etsy's rules! I tried telling them this, but they don't seem to care. I tried reporting them for violating Etsy's rule about reselling pre-made products but nothing has changed.

I've even had to report TheWingsUA (their Instagram handle), aka WingsAndFlowerDesign on Etsy, for making wings using my Titania wings photo.

Screenshot of infringing fairy wings Etsy listing from WingsAndFlowerDesign, showing mannequin from the back, wings are printed with my edited Titania wings photo

That particular photo got used a LOT, and has also been made into temporary tattoos, all without permission or any money paid to me of course. Below is the original photo of mine that this version came from.

Photo of my light green iridescent Titania fairy wings with brown veins, shot from the side, with FancyFairy.com watermark

That particular photo got used a LOT, and has also been made into temporary tattoos, all without permission or any money paid to me of course. Below is the original photo of mine that this version came from.

Image from DeviantArt user MLauNeim or MaryNeim showing Titania wings photo edited to be purple, offered as clip art, titled 'Wings Butterfly'

She's unfortunately not in the US either, I forget now where she resides but I couldn't really do anything except report her posts.

But this WingsAndFlowerDesign company has been getting really popular with Americans because they're priced so cheap. Some of their designs are really pretty but... are they really their designs or are they stolen too?
Some seem like they might be made with AI, which, I'd rather have them do that than copy my photos or designs. But there's other wings in their shop that look very familiar to me, designs that have been around elsewhere and they may be using images or clip art they find online. And if most of what I see from someone is either copied from another artist, a nature design, or AI, that tells me they are lacking in design skills so they have to use designs that are already made.
They also seem very similar to the CrystalWingsUA Etsy store.

Thankfully they at least didn't send a counter notice... not yet anyway.

But another thing I never got from any of these companies?
An apology. An "I'm so sorry I used your design". 

There are many many more overseas copies than I can fit in here, but I'm working on getting them removed somehow.
In a couple weeks I have a virtual meeting with Senior Counsel for Enforcement from the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to discuss the copyright issues that myself and so many other artists & designers are struggling with, especially with foreign sellers!

I'm not sure what will come of this, if it will lead to any actual changes, but I will update you here if it does!

I'm Being Relentlessly Harassed Over an Influencer's Copyright Removal

*Update at the bottom 9/14/22
I was determined to let this go and not speak out since the influencer in question, Haeli Hunt, is a smaller account than mine. I only go after the big fish, or people that are the public face of a big company, as mine has grown & it’s usually not worth it to bother.
But now she got her friend riahboflavin with over 225,000 followers, more than double my size, to target me on Instagram for her, the rules have now changed with this new power dynamic.
The defamation is not stopping even though I’ve had zero contact with Haeli for weeks and did my best to ignore this.
The situation is being misrepresented by them both, and false accusations that I ‘keep reporting’ Haeli’s posts when it was only her one video with the knockoff wings that got reported. Twice, since she was reckless enough to repost it after it was removed the first time without my permission.

I’m still going to ask everyone NOT to engage with either of these people. This is here solely to set the facts straight now that a much larger account got involved in targeting me.

I’m being falsely accused of ‘harassment’ and ‘bullying’ because I discovered Haeli was displaying knock-off copies of my Titania fairy wings she bought from a company in China in her Reels, and I tried to resolve the issue with her directly and amicably to protect my IP.


The specific design was copied exactly and I do have a copyright registration for my Titania fairy wings design or I would not have been able to file a CCB claim against Paris Hilton or SHEIN, contrary to her followers’ claims that I don’t. I wouldn’t bother otherwise, I don’t think I own ‘all fairy wings’, as their accusations claim but I do own this very specific design I created from scratch in 2007 that is not a design from nature. That’s why people say they’ve been ‘around forever’ because, you know, older artists actually exist.
I also do NOT require attribution on every photo of someone wearing my physical wings as the rumors say, only in certain contexts where everyone else is credited and excluding mine would implicate someone else made my work.
*Screenshots from Haeli’s & riahboflavin’s posts for the purpose of education, news reporting & clearing defamatory accusations, under Fair Use laws.
3 screenshots below.

1. She was a follower of mine already when she bought the knock-off wings, even though I post that design fairly often including speaking out about the theft of it.


2. I asked if she could explain in a post that the wings were illegally copied from mine, she said she would but never actually did it.
After a week at least of no response I asked if she could edit the captions of the existing posts to explain the knock-offs. It was ignored although she saw my message, and so a few days after I asked why she was ignoring my requests & said I didn’t want to report her, and I meant that. But her Reel was getting a lot of engagement and knock-offs of my design getting that attention is bad for my business if people think I made those poorer quality wings.
She got defensive and immediately blocked me. Entire convo below, 8 screenshots.


3. I started getting wild accusations on my posts that I ‘bully people who buy any other wings’ before I found she made a public post denying the wings were alike, targeting me for harassment before I reported her post.
She said she had no idea who I was, which also wasn’t true.
I reported her post at that point as it all now seemed willful & malicious.
I may not have bothered doing so if her followers had not started trolling my posts relentlessly.
6 screenshots below show a tiny sample of this.

4. She emailed me asking if I’d like to talk. I responded only once, said I was hesitant since she still had public posts up fueling harassment of me, while ironically accusing me of harassment. She responded that she’d remove the posts * if * I let her post the video with the knock-off wings.
I didn’t trust her, as she was still entertaining defamation of me in her post. Those posts should’ve been deleted or made private for me to believe she wanted real resolution.
I felt anything I said, anything I asked for her to specify in a new post would simply be twisted & used for more harassment if she didn’t want to tell people they were knock-offs. I did not respond. 2 screenshots below

5. She re-posted the same video that IG removed the first time without my permission, with a simple credit to me - while still having me blocked - with no mention of them being unauthorized copies as I asked for multiple times in our DMs.
So I reported the video again since communicating with her seemed impossible without a side of heavy drama. The simple credit made it seem as if those sub-par knock-offs were somehow official, which was not good for business. It was removed, again, by Instagram.

6. More posts by Haeli with more defamation and harassment from her friends / followers on all platforms. I made a few vague posts in my Stories without mentioning her name, ever, explaining that the trolls were due to an influencer who didn’t like that her infringing video was removed, that I never asked for credit but for an explanation that they were knock-offs. She later emails me denying she knew that’s what I wanted.

7. At that point I decide to share a few screenshots of our convo in my Insta Stories, showing the few times I specifically asked for an explanation, not credit or promotion, plus her email denying she knew that’s what I wanted, with her name completely censored.
Still wasn’t harassing or targeting her, still was protecting her identity since she’s a smaller account. I was hoping they’d burn themselves out and move on. 5 Screenshots below.

8. I have had no contact with Haeli or any of her friends since that one email response, I’ve been doing my best to ignore her and hoped it would die down.

For some unknown reason Haeli posted about me again yesterday on both platforms, dredging up old news, and again I was going to let it go and hope she got tired of talking about me. But today, her friend riahboflavin targeted me in her Stories to her 200K+ followers, more than twice the size of my account.
They are essentially doing all the things to me that they falsely accuse me of, now bullying and harassing me, a smaller creator, publicly by name complete with puking emojis.

Riahboflavin did include some screenshots of our conversation but excluded the one that shows the second time I said I wanted an explanation and that I did NOT expect promotion. Oh and, screenshot of Haeli’s public support of this larger account posting about me, aka Mariah.

The trolling comments I’ve gotten have been extensive, the defamation and accusations absolutely unhinged, many ableist insults calling me psychotic & crazy just for protecting my IP, and her friends even publicly admitted they’d be reporting me for everything from spam to harassment, none of it founded, and Haeli entertained all of this without correcting or shutting any of it down. I even had one of my posts, something shared from a photographer who used my overlays, reported falsely as soliciting sexual content even though it was simply a photo of a woman who was nude but had ALL her bits covered and I don’t doubt that may have come from Haeli’s crew. Meanwhile the only post of Haeli’s that got reported and removed was the one video she posted twice for infringement, and infringement is much harder to get removed than any other type of report. But I have all the proof plus the copyright registration, and Haeli would’ve gotten all that info when the report went thru, no matter how much she may want to convince people I don’t own my design.
2 screenshots below

The wedding photographer for the lesbian wedding posts that we shared was the first to turn off comments on those posts because they were leaving so many awful ones, which is especially crappy to post that garbage on photos of these womens’ special day when they had nothing to do with this. I eventually had to follow by turning off comments on both Meta platforms for more than a week just to make it stop.

There’s honestly too much of it to post it all here. And I wouldn’t have known about yesterday’s post at all if it weren’t for another of her friends sending me a nasty email yesterday morning out of the blue, because I stopped caring about whatever Haeli might be up to weeks ago. It’s a shame how much space I’m still taking up in her head after all this time with nothing to trigger it.

I’m going to end this with this one submission if it would stop this shit show:

Haeli * if * you and your friends call off the harassment for real & remove the defamatory posts, especially Mariah Lacy, you can go ahead and post the video of yourself in the janky knock-off wings if you want that so badly, now that your friend has brought so much attention to the fact that they’re knock-offs of mine. Leave me alone, and have your people do the same. I didn’t intend on making this public but you went and got a big account involved the same size as Chotronette, and forced a public clarification.
All you had to do was honor my simple request to explain that the wings were copies of mine & honor another content creator’s rights.
This public drama was your choice, and now it’s also your consequence. I hope this makes you happy.

*Update
Haeli emailed me, with an attempt to bargain, wanting me to also remove this post.

It’s not a fair bargain to me, and this is the response I sent her:

”Haeli, you're not completely understanding my offer so let me be clear.

I'm not removing my blog post. The harassment you've sent my way for roughly a month while I withheld your identity, revokes that privilege for you as the damage is done, especially after you got a large account involved to target me. It would not be a fair deal, I've posted a factual account of things to counter the defamation being spread. Yet even after seeing the blog post and my offer, you made yet another post falsely accusing me of twisting things, drumming up more hate & harassment. I got more overnight, I'll attach just two of the screenshots for you.
The most important thing I need from you is to make new posts on any platform you posted about me negatively, and start with asking your followers to stop harassing me.
No snark, no sarcasm, no insults misrepresenting what happened or accusations, no complaining about me or it doesn't count.
That must be the sole focus of the posts, not an edit or addendum at the end.
No entertaining falsehoods anymore in the comments or egging on the hate either, that would be counterproductive. 
I've explicitly asked my followers not to engage with you or your friends without you having to ask me to do that from the start. The very few I’ve seen that ignored that and interacted with you in your posts were civil in their attempts to clarify copyright law and other facts about the situation.
I've been more than patient.

You and Mariah need to also:
• Admit I do hold the copyright for that specific wing design as it's not from nature
• Admit the designs are in fact the same, because color variations, size and materials aren't considered transformative changes.
• Admit I have not been harassing you, I had no contact with you since the one response to your email weeks ago, and that I only reported the one video AFTER people started harassing me on your behalf, and it was reported twice only because you decided to post it again without my permission after the first removal.

Also remove your public posts about me.
Then you can post your content with those specific wings as long as they are not monetized, sponsored or in collaboration with brands. This is non-negotiable and I don't want any further requests from you.
Read this all carefully so you can't say you didn't know what I want again, if you violate any part of this agreement we have no deal. If this doesn't work for you, then let this be our last interaction. Since the harassment has continued, my offer ends tomorrow, Sept. 15 at 12pm Pacific. Further harmful actions from you to stir drama in the meantime may also revoke this offer.”
~

The harassing screenshots I sent her are below, 2 screenshots

I made one more email to clarify something that I didn’t want to get mixed up due to terminology just now, saying this:
”One last thing to clarify further just in case you're not clear on what I mean by making the posts to call off the harassment:
They should be a post in your main feed on FB & Instagram since that's the format the posts about me were in, and as for Mariah she can either make a Story post and keep it in her profile Highlight or make one in her main feed. They need to be permanent type posts rather than solely temporary Stories.”

These are very simple actions that can get her the permission she wants, and end the drama and harassment. Whether she’ll accept it, I don’t know but I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt this one last time.

*Update 4:52pm 9/14/22
She emailed with a response, she’s not accepting my offer. So be it.

Apparently Haeli now pinned a newer post in her main Instagram feed about me, very much defamation.
Again, stating I wanted her to link to my wings as if looking for promotion, and that I asked for a normal credit, that’s not what I asked for at all as our DMs made clear.
She’s falsely misrepresenting it as if she had made the post she said she’d make explaining the situation when she never did it, as if I never gave her a chance to correct things and never explained what I wanted.

In addition, I was falsely accused by her followers of ‘ripping off’ another wing maker in the comments and even though the wing maker herself responded to tell them they’re absolutely wrong, Haeli deleted her very polite comments.
She watched the accusation get debunked in real time, and removed it in order to allow the accusations to stay. I think that says a lot about the kind of person we’re dealing with here.
Unfortunately due to this maker’s safety concerns she’s afraid of being targeted by Haeli’s people, understandably, so I’m obscuring her name here. But it’s obvious from the comments that hers are missing. 3 screenshots below showing the accusations and the now missing comments made by the wing maker.

The truth is, I’m friends with the majority of iridescent wing makers out there and they have been incredibly supportive to me behind the scenes during all this, and can’t believe how ridiculous this has been. Some were brave enough to stand up for me in the comments - all extremely politely - but their comments get deleted and some even got blocked.
I want to thank each and every one of you who has been offering me moral support in private and public, I greatly appreciate you all.

Below are just a couple of the times she’s allowed or even encouraged lies about my ownership of the design or that I think I own ‘ALL’ fairy wing designs, and there are many more instances of this on all her posts including the one from this week. It’s exactly why those retractions from her would be needed with any request to her followers to leave me alone.
I’ve accepted that she won’t be doing the right thing.



The Copyright Claims Board Is Finally Here!

*Update: As of February 2023, the legal issue between Paris Hilton and myself has been privately resolved

The new ‘small claims court’, the Copyright Claims Board, has been open for submissions since June 16th.
And I already filed 2 claims.

Screenshot of Copyright Claims Board dashboard showing list of my ongoing copyright proceedings. First claim is Jarman v. 11:11 Digital (Paris Hilton), and second claim is Jarman v. SHEIN Distribution Corporation

I filed my first claim against 11:11 Digital / Paris Hilton the very day the board opened. I had been checking the site since early that morning, anticipating a huge avalanche of claims being filed so I wanted to make sure I got mine in early enough.
Filing was pretty easy, but there were a few snags initially - my documents errored out when I tried to attach them, and, my private address was in public view once the claim was fully processed and then published on the site.
I quickly contacted them to find out how I could change the address to my PO Box, stressing I don’t have an attorney representing me, I’m just a woman working from home as a sole proprietor and had no idea I would be doxxing myself, as it was never fully detailed how much information would be made public. I thought it would be the case file number and names of the parties involved at least but didn’t know what would display beyond that.

It took a few days but they removed my claim from public view and fixed it so that my street address, phone number and email address are all hidden now and that’s how it is now going forward with all the claims unless it’s filed by a law firm or attorney.

As of this date, I believe all of the information and documents for the Paris Hilton case are now visible at my claim link, where there is more context & factors brought up in this claim that I haven’t shared all the details about before, along with supporting evidence: https://dockets.ccb.gov/claim/view/23

My my most recent blog post about Paris’ 3rd infringement has the links to the previous 2, but again all important details & additional links are in the claim link above: https://www.fancyfairy.com/news/2022/4/10/paris-hilton-titania-fairy-wings-infringement-3

Screenshot of the message I got from a friend, asking “are these yours” with a photo of a small stickerbook, featuring my fairy wings photo

While waiting for the compliance review to complete on my first claim, I filed another Sunday night against SHEIN. It hasn’t even been a full month since my first! Tight enough on the heels of my claim with Hilton that I was in the middle of tying up last minute questions with the NPR reporter who interviewed me for NPR’s The Indicator podcast, and they were able to mention I was already filing another.

If you’d like to listen to it, here you go! https://www.npr.org/2022/07/11/1110928086/copyright-small-claims-court


As shown in the photo above, a friend messaged me with a photo of a page of a small sticker book she’d purchased from SHEIN, asking if the photo was mine.
It is indeed a photo from my old Etsy listing of my painted Titania fairy wings. I don’t license my photos like this, and don’t allow it. I never was asked permission or paid by SHEIN.
The link for the listing was sent to me, and I found a thumbnail of this and another different wing photo of mine in the listing photos.

The above screenshots are from one listing, I’m referring to that sticker book as Sticker Book A.

Below are screenshots from another listing that also contains my green painted Teasel wings, I’m referring to that one as Sticker Book B.

Below you can see the screenshots of the entire listings, where there are thousands of customer reviews, indicating they have profited from my IP without my knowledge or permission.

What’s more, a few days before I was alerted to the sticker book infringements, I had been messaged by someone pointing out that a recent post by SHEIN on Instagram showed a model wearing what appeared to be my Titania fairy wings, but are in fact an unauthorized knock-off.

Screenshot from SHEIN’s Instagram post showing model in a bikini wearing knock-off version of Titania wings

So far it does not appear that they are selling the wearable wings, however this is mistakenly suggestive to the public that SHEIN has been working with or licensing IP from me, when that has absolutely NOT happened. I’ve never even purchased product from that company and they’ve never ordered from me.

There are even more photos of various models wearing other knock-offs of this design on their website as well under ‘grunge fairy’ clothing listings.

All of this info and documentation has been submitted to the CCB, though it may take a couple days for it to be publicly visible on the page for the claim docket, but you can follow that case here once it’s been processed: https://dockets.ccb.gov/case/detail/22-CCB-0050

This time, I noticed the CCB made changes to the submission process and now there is an alert that wasn’t there before, letting the claimants know that although our contact info will be hidden from public view, everything else submitted would be publicly viewable to everyone.

Over all, now that the private info issue has been fixed as well as the document attachment glitch, it’s a pretty easy and smooth process to file a claim. Now I wait for the CCB to process the claims and send me forms for the next step in the process. It was only $40 for each claim, and I’ll only pay the remaining $60 for them if the respondents decide to proceed rather than opt-out.

Yes, this is a voluntary process, so respondents can decide not to move forward with a claim and if so, then the only option is federal court. It’s true that would put me back to square one if that happens. However, even as expensive and stressful as federal IP cases are, does the respondent know for sure that the claimant won’t pursue the case in federal court if they opt out?

If a federal suit is then filed, will they have regret that they opted out of a far less costly way to solve the issue?

As far as I know, whether they opt out or not, the claims stay on record and remain publicly viewable. I think there may be benefits to this aspect of it.

Will respondents see this record of accused infringement as a stain on their public image? Or are they too wealthy and powerful to be bothered by yet another accusation if they already have a reputation for IP theft?

Only time will tell.

One thing I’ll say is, contradictory to the anti-copyright groups who warned us that grandmas and average Joe’s would be sued for thousands of dollars for making memes by copyright trolls, it’s simply not happening.
In fact I was pretty surprised to only be the 10th filing in line on the first day. I rushed to get it in there because I was imagining an avalanche of claims to be filed, considering how big of a problem IP theft has been for artists in the last few years especially. I worried that there was no way that only 3 people would be able to handle the massive amount of infringement happening in this country, but I’m relieved to see that I was wrong!
Instead, after just a month of being open, there are only 50 cases filed so far, including mine.

My hope is that all of us artists, most of who are struggling, will finally see some fairness restored to the rights over our works.

We haven’t had much access to the justice system, as without deep pockets we can’t afford the tens or hundreds of thousands a typical IP court case costs. This has meant that only the biggest infringement cases involving huge companies are usually worthwhile for an attorney to take a case on contingency or pro-bono, if you’re lucky.
What I actually see as a positive in this, is that the people reviewing the claims are all copyright experts unlike in a federal court case where judges & juries may not even fully understand copyright law.

For me personally, I’m happy to now have an option to pursue infringers officially, and legally, and most of all inexpensively!
It’s gotten exhausting getting nagged with “handle this through a lawyer!” or “be professional and just sue them” as if those were realistic options for everyone, because they’re not.
Even reporting to platforms with DMCA’s are not always reliable, it’s not uncommon to get a refusal to remove what seems to be an obviously clear infringement from platforms like Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
It’s why I’ve had to resort to calling out an infringement in my social media as a last resort when the infringing party refuses to credit or remove a post using my IP without permission and I hate it every time. But for a long while it was the only thing left to do, and often it would work to get the content removed.

Now, I’m looking forward to my work seeing some validation from an official source straight from a government branch. After hearing the annoying refrain of “they’re just fairy wings” when I’ve pointed out infringements of my work, it will be nice to get an official ruling on public record that I can point to when that argument is thrown at me again.