marilon❊mia

Hey, fandom. Let’s talk.

Anyway so this page reposts my comic right, no link to the original source. There’s some shit going down about crediting.

Some people are like, calm the fuck down. Admin isn’t claiming it as their own, the watermark is there, etc, etc. Some people are then like, that’s not enough. Put the source.

How hard is it to just edit the links into the pictures? How hard is it to just maybe…if it’s so easy to look the artist up…look it up themselves? Then link it before posting?

If you use an unpaid artist’s work to drive traffic to your page at least have the decency to source them. 

I can take no-permission reposting on sites that I haven’t posted it on before, but please. Write the source. 

People can look the watermark up, stop whining! You have to understand that it makes an artist’s work much more accessible to an audience if you put a single-click link in the description. It’s easier to click once than type a potentially illegible watermark into Google and look it up. Any content producer knows this, but this is something most reposters fail to understand, or refuse to.

What if I make another part? If there is no source, how would the audience know there’s been an update?

It’s just fanart! Do you have the rights to it? No, a fanartist does not (eta) have the rights to the original characters, but does that invalidate the time and effort the artist spent to make the work? We’re not paid for this. Come on. At least give us a single line of credit. Give us the traffic generated. 

Dude, it took me someone linking the repost that there are like a thousand comments on the comic. You know what a content producer likes? Feedback.

(If anyone is wondering, reposts can be taken down by a DMCA request - most sites that aggregate content will have some way of filing this.)

What makes this even more of a shitshow though? Well, if you don’t feel like digging through all the legalese to find this section, I’ve done it for you. This is what it says as of 2014-01-25, 19:53 PST:

Read that. Read all of it. Not just the legalese in white. Not just the “skimmer-friendly” version in gray. Read both and notice how they technically, for all legal purposes, say the same things…yet completely contradict one another from any practical standpoint. The gray boxes are all nice and friendly. The legalese is basically a great big ol’ FUCK YOU.