How to find original of printerval rip off t-shirt design?

[horseymum]

I was browsing t-shirts for a present and came across one I love but have subsequently discovered printerval website just rips off most of its ' designs' designs from Etsy etc. I want to buy from the original designer but doing a Google image search doesn't bring up anything, searching on Etsy doesn't either. Feel bad buying it if it's ripping someone off, any other way I can try or do I just accept it?

Image searches are pretty much the main way. The other would be to search for any text in the design or to describe the design

Otherwise you don’t have much of a chance of finding it elsewhere, though you could post up the design and ask if anyone can do any better

Its not an absolute given that Printerval is all
a rip off from others such as Etsy - it’s a marketplace and the original artist could be the seller - but once something is out there it’s open to being copied unless the copyright owner finds those ripping them off

First places to check for the original artist is on tineye image reverse, if not then try redbubble, teepublic amazon, etsy, ebay. But beware these sites are fighting copyright infringement too. Printerval is one of the worst sites i have ever come across for copyright. It sits behind a cloud flare server for protection against major corporations who would have it normally shut down. The company is not legit although they try to potray themselves as, they talk as if they are but they do nothing to remove repeat offenders. You only have to look at the account names to see somebody has set up 100 accounts n their own name. Other bad sites to avoid are allegro in poland, artishot USA, mercado libre brasil, argentina etc