Quote - its been removed, and the writer/publisher has sent a notice to the stores where it is hosted to remove the image from there as well. during the email correspondence theyve admitted to it being an infringement, money has changed hands, I have irrefutable proof that I created the image, and it was harvested from a site that has the copyright (2005) clearly posted -- so I'm not really worried about my legal standing.

seems he had an 'Art Director' working on the graphic side of things and he just took it upon himself to harvest work from DA and other sources. 

I'm not super pleased with how it was handled but its been taken down and I dont really have time to mess with the issue further - I have several projects I need to finish, this has already wasted half my day :(

thanks for the help folks, appreciate it!

Just heard about this issue, and I'm glad it got handled somehow.

And I thought, after looking at the cover: Whose background painting did this person steal?

And...yeah. This is why I don't post much of anything on DeviantArt.