[ SECRET POST #3731 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3731 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Kemono Friends]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Pitch Black]


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[Casey Affleck]


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[Criminal Minds]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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Three, protection of trademark makes sense, but that still does not refute my money argument. Being that the money that fanartists make does not necessarily go to the original product, because people want something the fanartist makes specifically.

There is literally no good tangible way to prove this. It could very well indeed be lost revenue. Not to mention if something a fanartist makes reflects badly on the original product it can also cost the company in other ways beyond specific lost customer profits. There's a whole host of reasons why Disney keeps a tight lid on their work.

The professional world isn't nearly as chummy or "okay with" with fanartists and authors as people seem to think. Even in Japan, people get this idea that manga artists and anime producers just love the doujinshi art circuit ("after all, so many of them came from there why wouldn't they love it?!") when in reality it's more of a very uneasy "cease fire" because the bad press they get for taking an artist to court often isn't worth it compared to the amount of money they deem they'd be saving/making by forcing that artist to stop producing work.

The reason companies like Disney don't give a flying fuck about "bad press" or artist ill-will is because they're bigger than God and have just about as much disposable income to throw at the problem. They're the company that represents multiple generations of childhood wonder and memories. Suing the pants off somebody who makes pictures of Mulan getting porked by Li Shang or "now here's the Disney Princesses as Steampunk airship captains!" does nothing to their bottom line, and protecting their intellectual property means way more than the bad press. It's why I'm incredibly surprised Sakimichan hasn't been told to cease and desist, because she is exactly the sort of person they go for, people taking huge chunks of profit by drawing their IPs. They went after someone on Youtube recently because of the same exact thing.

[(Anonymous)]

But this isn't their bottom line. This is protected under US law, which is what Disney also falls under, being an American company, as long as it doesn't imitate an existing product (which would make it a bootleg).

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AYRT

That's just untrue. Fanart and fan projects get the axe under copyright law all the time. Fans were pissed off because a huge-effort-and-money-time-sink Star Wars fan film got a C&D notice not too long ago despite it not being a direct copy of any existing work.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe the genderswap makes it a critique? I dunno. *shrug*