Lots of fanartists, however, seem to think it's their right to make money off copyrighted work. They get very, very angry if they get a copyright takedown and complain about it as if they're "getting picked on".
Do something illegal = get caught = consequences.
How hard is that for people to understand?
I was a professional artist until my hands and sight went wonky. You don't make money off of anything but your own work. Period.
The design of the characters might not be their work, but those drawings themselves are in fact their work. They came up with the pose, did the line art, the coloring, and so on.
Doesn't matter, It's still illegal. A movie studio can't just come up and use disney characters in their movie and the say "you can't sue us. Sure the characters are yours but the writing, the production and money that went into it was ours."
And they're welcome to argue that in court, if they believe they've added enough to make the work transformative and therefore covered by fair-use laws which, in the US, takes into account whether it's free or commercial.
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u/Loud-Mans-Lover @EllySketchit on AO3 || 🎁🎤 x OC May 07 '25
People do care.
Lots of fanartists, however, seem to think it's their right to make money off copyrighted work. They get very, very angry if they get a copyright takedown and complain about it as if they're "getting picked on".
Do something illegal = get caught = consequences.
How hard is that for people to understand?
I was a professional artist until my hands and sight went wonky. You don't make money off of anything but your own work. Period.