Your question is literally not leaving me alone … I was just looking at some art on DA and there an artist put underneath all her posts:
PLEASE DO NOT REPOST ANYWHERE!!! I do NOT allow the use of my art in videos, slideshows and the likes, or on other sites without my explicit permission.
And I had to concede that she had a point. I still stand by my statement that since a fanfic/artist by definition is also inspired by and playing with someone else’s ideas without explicitly asking permission from the original author/creator, it would be quite conceited of said fanfic creator to then demand an obligatory request asking for permission when someone else is inspired by their original idea.
I think the keywords are INSPIRED and IDEA. When you are inspired by an idea you take the idea and do your own thing with it. In case of being inspired by fanart it could lead to you writing a fic or drawing something original based on the other persons work. Thus you would definitey need to disclaim the source of your inspiration, but would not have to necessarily ask for permission. This is why mostly fanfic writers and fanartists are happy when some makes an art/fic based on their work and tell everyone about it, and while I can’t be certain it does not seem that most of those inspired ask for permission. Although most people do seem to tell the original creator afterwards.
But INSPIRED does not mean taking her actual artwork and then making it into icons for example or changing the colours. If, in these situations, you did not ask for permission, then you are most definitely a plagiarists. In fanfic the equivalent would be not just letting her idea inspire you, but actually lifting the words – be it literally or in more vague terms – from her fic and planting it in your own. If you actually want to use her literal words and you have asked for permission and it was granted, then all is hunky-dory.
Again I think common sense should prevail on both sides and fandom will continue to be the, mostly, happy place it is.
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Your question is literally not leaving me alone … I was just looking at some art on DA and there an artist put underneath all her posts:
PLEASE DO NOT REPOST ANYWHERE!!! I do NOT allow the use of my art in videos, slideshows and the likes, or on other sites without my explicit permission.
And I had to concede that she had a point. I still stand by my statement that since a fanfic/artist by definition is also inspired by and playing with someone else’s ideas without explicitly asking permission from the original author/creator, it would be quite conceited of said fanfic creator to then demand an obligatory request asking for permission when someone else is inspired by their original idea.
I think the keywords are INSPIRED and IDEA. When you are inspired by an idea you take the idea and do your own thing with it. In case of being inspired by fanart it could lead to you writing a fic or drawing something original based on the other persons work. Thus you would definitey need to disclaim the source of your inspiration, but would not have to necessarily ask for permission. This is why mostly fanfic writers and fanartists are happy when some makes an art/fic based on their work and tell everyone about it, and while I can’t be certain it does not seem that most of those inspired ask for permission. Although most people do seem to tell the original creator afterwards.
But INSPIRED does not mean taking her actual artwork and then making it into icons for example or changing the colours. If, in these situations, you did not ask for permission, then you are most definitely a plagiarists. In fanfic the equivalent would be not just letting her idea inspire you, but actually lifting the words – be it literally or in more vague terms – from her fic and planting it in your own. If you actually want to use her literal words and you have asked for permission and it was granted, then all is hunky-dory.
Again I think common sense should prevail on both sides and fandom will continue to be the, mostly, happy place it is.