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⌈ Secret Post #738 ⌋

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[Ever After]

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[IT Crowd; resized]

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Would be all right if I sold prints of my Wizard of Oz fanart? Yeah? I mean, dozens of graphic novels, films, video games and such are based on it, so that's fine, right? But if I sold Harry Potter fanart that's NOT fine, because that book hasn't passed into the public domain, right? So basically you're making moral judgements based entirely on US copyright law?

You can not like it and not think it's right if that's how you feel, but the sale of fanart is a morally complicated issue, and I'm tired of how frequently it's oversimplified for the sake of handing down judgement on other people. I personally don't think that the vagueries of US copyright law (wherin when something passes into the public domain, for instance, has more to do with Disney's lawyers at this point that anything else) should serve as a basis for moral judgement.

I apologize for being unnecessarily rude, I'm just tired of having this conversation over and over again.

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This might be totally out of left-field here, but ... what about those of us who buy fanart? It's not as though the fanartist is tricking us into believing they own those characters. And it's not like I'm ever going to get a piece of art from the original artist. Clearly there's a demand for what fanartists do, so it's not like this is entirely their responsibility.

I'm an artist too, and I like having pieces of art I've picked up from cons hanging around to look at. Some of them are original, most are fanart. The unfortunate truth is that I usually don't have time to invest in learning all about an artist's Cookie-Cutter-Original-Character #45661, so unless a picture is stunning on its own, I'm probably not going to care as much. More often it's, "You have an awesome picture of Character-X-That-I-Actually-Know-And-Like, let me take it off your hands." I'm paying them for creating something pleasing that I can't get anywhere else, and usually because they do it in a unique style.

I suppose I could not buy fanart, but then I wouldn't have some of my favourite pieces of work hanging right in front of me now. :( I already paid my debt to the original creators by playing their games and buying their series. They brought me the characters, but they certainly did NOT bring me all of this fabulous artwork.

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