Where is this said? I'm looking at the collection of artists this site is happily offering to rip off (https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1558632898336501761/photo...) and there's a lot of people with long careers making copyrighted work. I really can't imagine finding a ton of CC work by Bernie Wrightson or Wayne Barlowe or Brom or Junji Ito, for instance.
> The team is going to great lengths to make this ethical and fair (try and generate a photo of a copyrighted character like Hello Kitty or Darth Vader).
imagine doing something as unethical as drawing hello kitty
He doesn't draw any art. Most of it he buys from art repositories (because already existing generic art is cheaper), the art he can't find he commissions from freelancers. It's in the article.
What does your comment even mean? If I were to create an original piece of art of an famous style, would that be considered a “blatant rip-off”? For a sanity check, here’s the website of the artist that created this original illustration: https://janneiivonen.net/about
This has nothing to do with the hustle; this is post-hustle - that's why these companies are even reaching out to the artists directly. The ones that know exactly who they're trying to copy are the worst offenders.
> Also, original art/design will always get credit if it is promoted properly.
This is simply not true, which is why Twitter is often a platform used for calling people out.
No, it’s not really fan art. It just happened one of the largest art patrons was the church. They wanted art to “educate” (i.e. evangelize) a largely illiterate population. And there was no internet back then, so every religious site would need art illustrating the same themes.
Yes it is and yes it does.
"Fan art" is "fan" in name only.
If you read back on my original post, you will see that I am talking about almost the entire online professional art commissions market.
From online, to convention centers, and more.
All of this is commerical and all of this competed with the IP owners.
People just sell other people's IP in all of these places.
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