(Reportedly from the RT site)
RT: Fans of RWBY: We need your help to green light Volume 10. Just know that we want to continue this project.
Also RT: Any fanart you make is now ours.
Okay, so like… I get that asking every single artist for permission would be incredibly difficult, and that it is kinda unrealistic to do this with every piece of fanart- But not giving credit?
There needs to be a lot of pushback on this decision.
Now, admittedly, the last posted date of this was about three years ago, so this could be something that's super old. But these guys need to know that the fans are the lifeblood of this whole thing. Without fans, there wouldn't be any RWBY. Because the fans are how you help this whole thing grow and gain more viewers. So if people end up finding out that the fan comic they made might get used without credit, it would devastate them. That artist may have ended up working in animation because of their passion, so to have the hard work be used without giving credit to the person who made it is horrible and scummy to the highest degree. Not even Disney stoops this low.
Honestly, I think that there's a good chunk of fan artists that would be more than happy to let RT use their work, as long as they get credited. But no. Apparently, they can't even get that.
FFS, why can't this damn company clear one lousy bar?










