Blackhearted opened this issue on Sep 06, 2012 · 68 posts
blondie9999 posted Thu, 06 September 2012 at 11:17 AM
First step-- contact the publisher and inform it that the cover art was stolen from you. Unless the publisher is real scum, that should be sufficient.
To take any kind of actual legal action-- like filing a lawsuit-- you need to have a registered copyright of your work. So if you don't already have the copyright registered, do it... just in case.