[ SECRET POST #2352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2352 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think posting fanart is fine as long as you don't claim it for your own. Hell, if I were an artist I'd be thrilled that people liked my non-profit art enough to share it.

I'm also a bit bothered when people profit off of their fanwork.

[(Anonymous)]

They profit all the time at the artist alley at conventions.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, and it irritates me. Even fancomics and stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Not in my country. I've never been allowed to sell my fanart at cons. Copyright issues and all that stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

People who post other people's art almost never link to the artist, or even say their name half the time. Though they should want to give the artist exposure, seeing as how they're uh, posting their stuff.

Why do you wanna repost in the first place anyway? It just seems like a silly impulse. Make your own stuff, or pimp the artist, or reblog their stuff. Reposting just makes you look attention-whoring and vaguely entitled. No smart person I've ever seen reposts other people's uncredited art all day. This sounds so rude, but I swear the people that to it are 13-year-old brats 99.9% of the time.

Though I do think people getting territorial over their gifs and screencaps are a bit silly. And even artists who throw huge fits over their stuff getting stolen (the ones who freak out and cry like it's a personal attack) kind of also need to chill. But reposting art is stupid.

[(Anonymous)]

because it's nice art and they want to share it with other people? also, if they found it on a site like 4chan, it may not have the credit attached to it so they might not be able to credit the artist even if they wanted to.

[(Anonymous)]

Have they actually tried to find the source? Google image search is a start. So don't give me this "even if they wanted to" crap, because most people don't even make a minimal effort to give credit.

[(Anonymous)]

Unless you're the artist, why do you care? This thread is proof that plenty of artists don't care and it's not really your place to get all self-righteous on behalf of someone who might be perfectly happy that their art is getting more exposure.

[(Anonymous)]

DA Except exposure is worth exactly nothing if no one knew you did it.

If an artist doesn't ask to be credited that's fine, but it's really the best to just credit and link regardless, because then either way you're covered- the artists who want credit won't get mad and the artists who don't care... still won't care.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt

I care because if I like the art, I want to see what else the artist has done.

Google Image search

[(Anonymous)]

[Not anonymous you're talking to]
just so you know I have discovered Google Image Search one hour ago and only because someone mentioned it here some other day ... and I'm using it to find author of one icon I've taken from user and not the author .... one hour and still no luck ... ( But I've found about about 50 users who've used it so I may end up writing them ... )

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind when people sell their own fanwork, but copyright law is also a little complex when it comes to fanworks, if it is different enough from the source material you can pretty much claim it as your own.

And as an artist I can tell you it is REALLY HARD to get people to buy anything that isn't fanwork, people just don't do it.

So yeah I sell my fanwork, but I wouldn't say I "profit" because I sell it for extremely cheap, but I use that fanwork as an investment to get attention so people will commission me for original work.

A lot of artists do the same, fanwork is a great way to establish a following that eventually leads to real jobs.

[(Anonymous)]

exactly. japan has a whole culture based around selling fan comics, in fact a lot of professional manga artists got their start drawing fan comics and then were solicited by magazine publishers to do their own original works. most professional artists and companies over there see it as free publicity.