You have bought up an excellent point! I'm an artist myself and have experienced few crazy events and have connections to other artists where even more unimaginable things have happened to them.
Many people here have had some good suggestions. I'll add mine----
In short: be courteous and use common sense.
For the posters: how not to steal it - just ask for their permission and if you got it, give them proper credits!!! That's probably the most polite way to do it. If they say no, just don't use it.
For the artists: make sure your image is in low resolution so only you have the original size, and add your signature and your url at the bottom of image. Yes, someone will chop it out. My point is, it'll make everything much easier to give you proper credits if he/she couldn't be bothered. There are many ways, but it can only do so much without killing your images (big watermark for example, argh). You may as well accept that internet is internet and try to work with it and if it spins out of control, start the legal process.
Just my two cents based on my observation from 10-15 years online as artist.
Great article and upvoted (although my power is a little weak here because I'm new)!
Hi @dm7 welcome to the Steemit Family, and thanks for re-steeming. I just followed you.
Yes, I am going to be make another post tonight or tomorrow simply going over some good practices for artists on steemit. That way there is also a post informing people of the right way to go about this whole steemit business.
You have added some great points. Thanks for joining the conversation.
Hi @art-mess thank you very much for the warm welcome! Also I'm so looking forward to your next post! :)