Fairy Wings Flash Sale Sunday Oct. 23 at 8pm Pacific!

There’s a chance these may arrive by Halloween in the USA, but there have been shipping delays so please purchase only if you want them even if they don’t make it in time for Halloween.

First, the Scythe wings in standard large, painted in purples, blues & black with a touch of blood red on the Opal iridescent film.

And another set of standard size large Scythe wings, in iridescent Dark Crystal with black veins.

'Scythe' fairy wings, based on goliath beetle wings with changes and antennae added, in iridescent blue/purple, are displayed on a dress form wearing an alabaster underbust corset. Facing front, with a plain white background

Then we have the extra large wings! There will be these Aynia XL fairy wings done in clear Ultraviolet film with black veins.

'Aynia' extra large fairy wings, elongated wings that come to a point, with antennae, in iridescent clear / violet, are displayed on a dress form wearing an alabaster underbust corset. Front view, plain white background

Last are the extra large Ellette wings, done in clear Diamond Fire iridescent with black veins

'Ellette' extra large fairy wings, elongated wings that come to a somewhat rounded point, in iridescent clear /yellow/orange/green, are displayed on a dress form wearing an alabaster underbust corset. Front view, plain white background

And that’s it!

Again, I will ship them out Monday or Tuesday and they *should* arrive by Halloween weekend if shipping times are standard without unexpected delays.
But delays have been happening here and there, so please don't order if you ONLY would want them for Halloween, just in case they don't arrive in time for your plans.

Definitely don't expect them in time if you're outside the US! 

Remember to be ready right at the start time as wings usually sell quick.
The flash sale page is https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales 

Flapping Wing Mechanism Sale Tomorrow, Sunday Oct 2 at 1pm Pacific Time

We’ll have at least 4 mechanisms on Sunday Oct 2 at 1pm PDT, with one specially painted in a blue / purple color shift!

Wing flapping mechanism painted in sparkly purple with blue highlight color shift against a white background

The back plate is printed in the black PLA color. It does have a small scratch on the lower left side, as you can see below.

I'm still working on finishing orders from the previous MTO listings so I can get to making more wings for sale, and in the meantime Jordan's shoulder is finally feeling better so he put some flapping mechanisms together to list.
We'll take the scratch into consideration in the pricing, it will be around $450, a little more than the others due to the extra time it took to sand and paint.
There will also be an olive green, pink, and pastel green mechanism.

Just to remind everyone, we haven't licensed anyone and don't sell these mechanisms - or my wings - wholesale to other stores. Jordan makes the mechanisms and I make the wings here in the US.
Since I can't house a giant waterjet machine in the second bedroom of the 2nd floor condo we're renting, I have a local vendor cut the frames for me from my files I make in Illustrator.
I drive there to pick them up, sand them all by hand, and then take the frames to get powder coated locally as well.
After that, it's all me for the rest of the fabrication.

I'm the only seller who should be listing my designs.
I'm still trying to get counterfeits removed from AliExpress, if you see them please use their report tool if possible and don't buy them. It won't look like the photo, it won't be good quality. I've even come across Etsy sellers now that seem to be drop shipping the knock-offs and they're hitting me with false counter notices that I'll have to file a CCB misrepresentation claim for to fight it.

I appreciate all of you who buy the real thing 💜

The mechanisms will be listed this Sunday, October 2 at 1pm Pacific daylight time, they won’t show up before the start time. You can view one of the previously listed mechanisms here for more info on them:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/products/flapping-fairy-wing-mechanism-pre-assembled-in-sky-blue-with-cover?_pos=3&_sid=1aee297da&_ss=r&variant=42403993419963

Need a link to the flash sale page? This will take you right there: https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

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.



Micro Flash Sale Saturday, Aug. 27 at 8am Pacific

This Saturday, Aug. 27 at 8am Pacific Time, I’ll have these two wings listing, ready to ship.

The first is the Elvina design in Dark Crystal iridescent film with silver chrome veining, standard size.

There will also be a set of Ivy fairy wings in the Absinthe iridescent film with white veins, also standard size.

That’s it for now, but look for more listings in the next 2 months as I catch up on existing orders.
It’s been a hell of a couple months but I’m doing my best to catch up, including a new tool that makes it so much easier on my hands to laminate these babies! I have wing maker friends Angelia of On Gossamer Wings and Jessica of Wearable Whimzy to thank for the suggestions <3
It doesn’t make it much faster but the fact it doesn’t cause so much pain means I will likely make more than previously.

Remember, the listings won’t show up until the start time on Saturday morning. Need the url? Here you go! https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

Want to support my artistic endeavors as well as get early access to sale announcements, tutorials, behind the scenes content, digital content and more?
Join my Patreon, which starts at as little as $1 a month here: https://www.patreon.com/faeryangela

Made to Order Fairy Wing Sale Sunday, 7/31/22 at 10am PT

Prepare for Halloween season with fairy wings in your choice of film color and black veining. I’m even bringing back a couple older designs, the Scythe and the Aphrodite wings, and converting them to the new convertible style!

Now, I'd planned to have a very small ready-to-ship sale this weekend but due to this health insurance nightmare I've been dealing with, plus finding my wings being knocked off and sold by another company in China, plus CA sales tax day coming up on the first I didn't get around to it.

So instead I'm having a small made to order wing sale of designs that are currently being cut and set to be powder coated within the next few weeks. There will also be a set of Colette wings, Nightshade, and others.

Sale will be Sunday 7/31 at 10am Pacific Time.

This will be for black veined wings only, as that is the next color batch scheduled and I don't want there to be too long of a wait if I give you all the vein options. Some people had to wait too long due to me offering all the options before and the powder coating place increasing their minimum batch numbers which extended the wait between each color.

Jordan and I also decided to offer a few of the flapping mechanisms made to order in your color choice as well. They would be $420 plus shipping, and you can email me directly to place an order up until August 16th or until all 5 slots are filled. I’ll be sending an invoice for a deposit to place the order and put it into production, then send another for the balance right before they ship. Unfortunately I’m still not set up yet to ship to the EU since the new tax & customs laws went into effect. I will try to work on that this year once things are more stable.

Remember, you won’t see the listings until the start time. You can find the flash sale page at this link:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

If you’d like to support my work further, and get early access to new product & sale news and content, you can subscribe to my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/faeryangela

Fairy Wing Flash Sale! Sunday July 17 at 8pm Pacific

I’ll have 2 sets of new colorways for the Pansy and Elvina designs. First up is the Pansy in iridescent Berry with black veining.

Then I’ll have a set of Elvina fairy wings in iridescent Ultraviolet, also with black veins.

There should be a third set of wings, the Pansy wings in Dark Crystal iridescent film with silver veins which I’ve made before.
Remember, the listings won’t show until the start time, 8pm Pacific Daylight Time at this link:
https://fancy-fairy-wings-things.myshopify.com/collections/flash-sales

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.