I think I need to move the art I host on LJ's Scrapbook (mostly the drawbles and my rat photos) elsewhere, so that it won't cause me any trouble to let my paid account here expire. Because seriously, the latest suspensions of the HP fan artists
ponderosa121 and
elaboration are just incomprehensible to me. Both artists have posted elsewhere that their art in question wasn't even chan, ponderosa121 about the Snape/Harry art here and elaboration about her Fred/George piece here.
And while I've seen the posts mentioning that WB might have complained to LJ and demanded that material removed, as a result of that I'd expect one of these DMCA notices as LJs response to copyright violations, giving the offender opportunity to remove the stuff either permanently or until they sort it out if they decide to fight the allegation, but not an immediate permanent suspension of all of the user's accounts without any warning, which is what seems to have happened if the posts from the artists describe correctly how they found their LJ suspended for art they posted to
pornish_pixies, and those suspensions also included their non-fandom and RPG journals, so I guess it would be a good idea for any fans owning RL journals to keep those under a seperate email contact to have at least a chance they might escape suspension if the fandom journal is.
ETA: I guess that would mean moving the Wizard drawing book scans too, which kind of sucks, since some of those entries are so widely linked and prominent in google search results that they are bound to generate far more traffic than any of my other stuff. Also, I now actually looked and I have about 370 images in my LJ Scrapbook (sadly all non-porn *g*), most of them posted/linked from somewhere, often from more than one place even, so that would mean editing a lot of broken images and links should I really choose not to throw more money at 6A. What a hassle.
And while I've seen the posts mentioning that WB might have complained to LJ and demanded that material removed, as a result of that I'd expect one of these DMCA notices as LJs response to copyright violations, giving the offender opportunity to remove the stuff either permanently or until they sort it out if they decide to fight the allegation, but not an immediate permanent suspension of all of the user's accounts without any warning, which is what seems to have happened if the posts from the artists describe correctly how they found their LJ suspended for art they posted to
ETA: I guess that would mean moving the Wizard drawing book scans too, which kind of sucks, since some of those entries are so widely linked and prominent in google search results that they are bound to generate far more traffic than any of my other stuff. Also, I now actually looked and I have about 370 images in my LJ Scrapbook (sadly all non-porn *g*), most of them posted/linked from somewhere, often from more than one place even, so that would mean editing a lot of broken images and links should I really choose not to throw more money at 6A. What a hassle.