I hope you guys read this, because you probably did not consider this.
It’s come to my notice that you have blocked me, for reasons unknown. With little explanation, I am only left to suspect that you do not want your posts to be checked, like I do with other reposters. Those two blogs’ action of blocking tells me that they have something to hide, because they no longer want their posts & permissions to be checked by someone who can contact the artist and inform them if their artwork is being reprinted without their permission, or their previous permission was being misused to print their other artworks.
As far as I know, there aren’t other blogs that try to contact the artist exclusively with these reprint reports. So my main concern is:
What is going to happen if krafthoney and lovelyaot use an outdated permission again, or misuse more permissions like before with artist じゃんぷ, MAKI, umi4549, 3gkkrl, oxox177, amaya_uw, and several others?
[By the way, if you check each of those artist’s twitter you will see that they have written in english not to reprint their art, because I’ve personally contacted them before about their permissions being misused.]
This very action of blocking makes it difficult to check if their permissions are valid or not. Perhaps it did not occur to those blogs the repercussions that the artists on twitter may face by extension.
**In the past, the only way many people knew that they reblogged an artwork that wasn’t authorized was because I have checked and found out that it wasn’t alright with the artist, or they never gave permission for @krafthoney or @lovelyaot to post certain art of theirs.**
But by blocking me, they not only censored me, but they also censored the artist in a way. This means that they could continue to post with permissions that could very well be expired, or use permissions granted for only one artwork to repost more than what was allowed by the artist. And they don’t feel any concern about it?
It is precisely because of those things being kept unchecked that those artists above have banned, forbidden, not allowed anyone to take their artwork and publish it to tumblr.
All the times that I’ve contacted artists like Jump, MAKI, umi4549, 3gkkrl, oxox177, amaya_uw, and several others is because I’ve noticed that @krafthoney and @lovelyaot have reposted an artwork with a permission that did not ‘match up’ to the artist’s current policy on reprints.
Also, by blocking me, they have prevented me from contacting them through private messages. In the past, I have sent them alerts, such as ‘this artist has changed their twitter acount, so pls update their source link’, and ‘this artist only allows reprint of one artwork, so pls don’t liberally repost everything they have’, or ‘this artist has forbidden all twitter reprints but allows pixiv’. By blocking me, they have shown everyone that they really are not all that concerned for these tiny but crucial details.
What is going to happen when an artist no longer decides they want their art reprinted anymore, or they decide that they don’t want anyone to reprint from their twitter anymore? Even if they wrote a message on their profile, how many people actually go through the effort to translate and check before reblogging?
How will the artist know if those blogs are following their agreement, and not reprinting artwork that they did not approve of? We have seen before how those blogs both tend to treat the permissions that artists have given them as a way to freely post anything they find, even if that was not what the artist intended.
But by blocking me, they’ve essentially made it so that they can post anything they want, even if the artist is heavily against it, and because of being blocked, I may not be able to communicate with either of them, and in the end, the artist may remain ignorant of it, until they find out the hard way, from seeing their art all over the web, and they ban reprints entirely.
And by blocking this account, how are those blogs suppose to know and respect that?
Please signal boost this.
This is only going to make life much harder to artists on twitter, because they may not be OK with their art being reprinted in the future, and because of @krafthoney and @lovelyaot‘s action, they’ve made it so that they have an advantage over those foreign speakers.
Let me ask: how is this respectful to the artist at all when you are treating their permissions in a way that if they sign it once, it’s like they can no longer back out if they change their mind?
