Apparently there was an explosion on fanart usage, so I’m adding fuel to the fire. For the record, I passed up wildarmshero’s post, and pretty much every other related post. There was simple generation of interest, which led to reading some related posts.
OFP (link)
After reading the statement, I have to identify a bit with omomomomo. It’s silly because it tends to give off the impression, GTFOG. In a perfect function of this OFP, everyone would contact the original artist and request permission to post the art along with names, links, etc. Fantastic, but what a pain in the ass, likely involving waiting.
If artists don’t want their art shared [by foreigners or whoever], then use the OFP badge or state their exact conditions, preferably with the notice in at least one Western language.
Reading List
- Mistakes of Youth (wah, artist/blogger)
- 見ないで！ひとり言 (Hinano, artist/blogger)
- [did read others via Continuing World]
Best point made: go to Pixiv
On an unrelated note, I didn’t even know I had a pixiv account… wtf
2nd best point made: accredit what you can (artist name, link, homepage, etc)
Re-enforce Pixiv
Image blogs are a popular item, and there are numerous Japanese posters who re-blog other artists works [here's one I like recently, for the blend]. Having subscribed to a few of these, I think one of the OFP’s bullets is regularly breached; contacting the artists for permission, but whatever.
The most reassuring point that comes from seeing posts on these blogs, is that most anime/manga-esque works come from pixiv, and one can go right to the pixiv page. I believe it is a good situation for both parties.
In the spirit of accreditation, here’s two arts I recently liked: one brushing teeth and one Ms. Langley. (Images not featured :P)
Tech Thought
This issue that was raeged about is not simply going to be solved, due to unawareness. Now, if we had something like MusicBrainz acoustic fingerprinting, for images (or partial images), open registration/submission for identifiers and artists, we wouldn’t have a problem of knowning who really created what we see. Probably could use Eigen pairs, though I have no experience with that for color images ^_^
