![]() ![]() The artist at the con isn't doing anything wrong because she made those pieces herself or has permission to distribute art for the someone who owns those pieces. If you make fanart or fanfics with reliable characters that are already established, it can be considered as parody, meaning you are basically critiquing with your own style or with your own story. If it is your art, meaning you drew it yourself and you own the original copy, then it is fine whatever you make, as long as you're not ripping someone off page for page. If you take a page of something directly and claim it as yours, then it falls under a lot of illegalities (for a lack of a better term). ![]() There is a fine line of ripping an IP off or making something under fair use. (As an aside, since I was surprised to learn this: unique commissions of copyrighted characters are actually fine! It's the legal equivalent of a band covering a song at a concert) Personally, I decided not to sell fanart, but I just think that whatever choice you make, it should be a choice that you thought about, and if you decide to sell fanart, you need to consider who it is you're impacting every time you make a piece of fanart - selling Undertale fanart hurts the creator a lot more than selling Pokemon fanart. Since it's not super risky, it's mostly an ethical decision. It becomes more complicated, too, when you're dealing with anime and manga since in Japan, there's more of an expected culture of fanart, so you run into a weird thing where it's technically illegal in America, so the creators COULD crack down and order you to stop, but the Japanese creators of those works would be unlikely to see a problem with it. Some people don't care if it's illegal- you can get away with it, and it's a lot harder to make money in Artist Alley if you don't. Some people feel it's okay because they are not hurting individual artists. Some people feel that selling fanart is okay because big companies can afford to take the hit. I'm not very familiar with the relevant laws, but I had friends who were - they could tell you 'these prints count as parody, those prints change enough of the outfit to count as x% of the original design being changed and thus not being an infringement,' etc. Some people work very hard to make sure all their fanart is technically legal under fair use. Here's most of the perspectives I've seen: Since it was a comic con she had mostly comic book characters and some anime. Idk how to add images in this thing, but you can see a picture of her and her display here. Does it just depend on the convention or what? The last time sakimichan was at a convention, it was NYCC just a few months ago, and from pictures other people took of here, it looked like her entire display was 100% fanart. Would I really need some kind of license for that, and if so how exactly do I go about getting it? ![]() ![]() I tried googling about it and came up with nothing really useful, so I thought I'd just go back to this site and ask about it here, cause I'm planning on going on my first convention, where I have a mix of original stuff and fanart. people mentioned that the reason she hasn't is probably because she has a license. There was a discussion over the legal issues and how she could get into trouble with companies like disney, DC etc. If you don't know Sakimichan, she's a digital artist who makes like 99% fanart and sells it at conventions, sells print/posters on online stores, gumroad, and through patreon (where she's currently making thousands). The thread was made back in August or something so I didn't want to revive it. Well I just found this website today through a google search that led me to a thread here talking about the artist Sakimichan. ![]()
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