And it seems only fanart is "fair game", not fanfic for example
I wonder why that is. Because more people write fanfiction, and thus there's a broader understanding/empathy for the creator's rights to it? Because fanfiction is more susceptible to plagiarism (by way of the global S&R of character names)? Because we've had more time to struggle with it, since only in the last five or eight years has it become really easy for people to host images?
I also wonder about the fannish socialization of the people who are reposting the art: are they people embedded in a fannish community with a developed protocol for respecting creators' interests? Do they come from a fannish community that just doesn't think about fanart as being an individual's personal creation? Or are they entirely unfamiliar with fannish social norms in general, and think the art is magically produced by rats on the internet and no one could possibly have an issue with their reproduction of it in a form they prefer?
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I wonder why that is. Because more people write fanfiction, and thus there's a broader understanding/empathy for the creator's rights to it? Because fanfiction is more susceptible to plagiarism (by way of the global S&R of character names)? Because we've had more time to struggle with it, since only in the last five or eight years has it become really easy for people to host images?
I also wonder about the fannish socialization of the people who are reposting the art: are they people embedded in a fannish community with a developed protocol for respecting creators' interests? Do they come from a fannish community that just doesn't think about fanart as being an individual's personal creation? Or are they entirely unfamiliar with fannish social norms in general, and think the art is magically produced by rats on the internet and no one could possibly have an issue with their reproduction of it in a form they prefer?
Hmmm.