how about y’all stop doing shit like this
I hope y’all realize you’re doing the same thing when you make gifs, like when y’all say oh thanks for reblogging #myedit you just edited or made a gif of anime or a video game that someone else owns and the ones who make art are the same ones doing that shit so half the community hasn’t a leg to stand on tbh
ffs there’s a difference between making a gif of a corporately owned intellectual property and someone taking credit for an artist’s private works.
If I made a gifset of My Hero Academia or Kingdom Hearts or whatever, I’m not claiming that I made the show/game or that I in any way own any of the content within the gif. And no one will mistakenly assume that I made the show either, which is usually what happens when someone reposts art that isn’t necessarily well known to the public.
I think this article is doing a decent job of explaining why gifs fall within a gray area of copyright, but this quote in particular underlines the point I’m trying to make:
According to Jeff John Roberts of Fortune, GIFs can be considered “transformative” under copyright law because they do not undermine the market for the original work: “No one, for instance, is going to watch a Star Wars GIF instead of the original movie.”
Reposters on the other hand, have a very real chance of undermining the artists they’re stealing from, especially if those artists are freelancers dependent on controlled exposure of their work. So I just don’t think this comparison holds up.
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