Stop Reposting Art From Japanese Artists

Stop reposting art from Japanese artists

and stop reblogging reposted art from Japanese artists. Stop spreading it around. This gives reposters (as well as regular fans) the impression that reposting art is acceptable. It’s not. It’s harmful to both the original artist and the fanbase.

First off, it’s against pixiv’s terms of service (Act 13, article 2). If you can’t read Japanese, a simple run through Google translate will do the work. It’s also right at the top of the help page in English. Because it’s literally only Western fans who do this. Outside of pixiv, on their private websites, most Japanese artists say clearly in English to not repost their work. This screenshot is just one example of many. I don’t want to link to some actual websites for obvious reasons.

Fanart— especially nsfw/R18 fanart— is on shaky legal ground in Japan. Copyright holders are generally willing to turn a blind eye to private websites and pixiv, but are not always able to if a certain fanart gets spread around too much. The most common example is how popular fanart makes its way to unofficial bootleg merch. You see it all the time at anime cons, where fanart gets mass-produced for profit and promoted as official merch. The original fanartists can get sued (or otherwise punished) for stuff like this, despite not having anything to do with it. Many fanartists are also professional manga artists, and they run the risk of losing their job due to copyright issues and out of fear for their publisher’s reputation.

But even besides legal issues, it’s plainly disrespectful.

Art you find on the internet does not belong to you. You have no right to take and edit and redistribute someone else’s work.

Common excuses I see are:

“But I always source!!!” GREAT… BUT YOU’RE STILL REPOSTING ART WITHOUT PERMISSION. Crediting the artist doesn’t suddenly make it alright to do whatever you want with their work.

“I can’t speak Japanese so I can’t ask permission!!” There’s Google translate and many websites that offer Japanese lessons. Language barriers should not be a problem.

“They put it online, so it’s their fault it’s getting stolen/edited.” Nice victim-blaming. Artists put their stuff online for their own enjoyment, not for other people to do with it as they please. Artists have deleted entire galleries because of this. Artists have even stopped drawing completely because of this.

…There is no excuse for being disrespectful. Stop trying to defend your rude behaviour and instead just respect artists.

If you absolutely must repost art, this blog has a lot of tutorials for non-Japanese speakers on how to ask for permission.

This is directed toward people who reblog reposted art just as much as it is toward reposters. When you reblog reposted art, you are perpetuating the problem. If you absolutely must reblog reposted art, don’t reblog it unless it clearly says that it was reposted with permission!! Not to mention the fact that many pixiv artists also have blogs on tumblr if you cared to look.

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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

would u guys be mad if i started calling mint “fruit”

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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

R E E S E S P U F F S

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That’s all there is to it, don’t think I need to explain much else.

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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

About repost my artworks (and Japanese artist's artworks)

@artworks / AboutMe / Website / Twitter / COMMISSIONS

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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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

I came across this article in the wall street journal and thought it might be helpful for some of my fellow spoonies

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lilanghosuhray

2 years ago

Reblog if you support equal rights because I do 💕

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lilanghosuhray

4 years ago

That’s a lie! And my art is horrible! Change my mind! I dare you! And hi. We don’t really talk much now do we. ;w;

And if you have a idea on how you can prove my art is better then mine, I’m in. (At least maybe...)

Yo. Sorry I didn’t really comment or payed much attention to either if your blogs, I just... rarely come on tumblr. :P Anyways, I just want to say HOLY CHICKEN NUGGETS YOUR ART IS BETTER THEN MINE!!! And your braver then me. I’m literally scared to show my art to anyone or even DO anything on my social medias at this point... :T

Thank you!! Also FALSEHOOD you draw better than I do. Plus if you showed it to people you’d see that. Anyways hi Lilang :D

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