About repost my artworks (and Japanese artist's artworks)
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Please don’t “re-post” my paintings nor use my paintings as your avatar.
(except for reblog, of course.)
Not only me, almost all of Japanese artists don’t allow you to repost.
If he/she allows it, they write so like “you can repost my artworks without my permission” on their home pages. (It’s a kind of Japanese custom*)
If they don’t write it, you must not do it.
Now, some Japanese artists are in trouble about the reposts.
For Japanese artists, it’s a serious issue.
Several artists may stop to draw arts because of the reposts.
Please do not repost our(Japanese) artwoks.
If you want to it, you must ask them whether you are allowed do it before you do it. Please.
When the reposted artworks are O.C, most of the problem may a copyright issue.
But, when the artworks are fan arts, it has not only the copyright issue but the image issue.
There are some artists (who paint artworks that is far from the original work), don’t want to show them to people who are not familiar with the works.
The most important thing to draw and post artworks for some artists is that they can control their own artworks.
Or, if 3rd party repost pics, the artists can’t get legitimate value.
Of course, some artists may have other issue, but most issue are the above.
On twitter, you can “RT”. It’s the most useful way to share amazing artworks on twitter, of course from the artists’s original posts.
If some problem is happened, the artists can delete all of the RTs.
On Tumblr, you can “reblog”. the way is not so useful for some artists( because, if the artists delete the post, but the reblogs are never deleted.). However, the reblogs still contain the credits, you can jump to the artists page from the reblogs.
And as you know, artists can see who rebloged it. In some cases, artists can block the users.
Some of twitter users dislike Tumblr reblog system(because of the above function).
There are some artists who allow you to share only the post URL.
There are some artists who allow you to share the pic with the artists name and page.
We can’t be to know if the artists allow what until we ask. Before you do it, you must ask them, please. (Of course, you must read the artists home page. Some of them write note in English on the bottom.)
We, almost Japanese are not good at English, but we’ve already have google translation. It helps our communicate.
Please don’t plunder motivations/intentions/will to paint the artworks from us.
*It seems English speakers tend to write Prohibitions, but Japanese tend to write “allowing items ”.
*If Japanese write nothing, it means they don’t allow anything about repost, maybe.
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