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Cashing in on Fanworks
Friday, November 23rd, 2007 02:50 amI was browsing Allposters.com when I typed in "Sakura" looking for blossom prints. This of course brought up a few Cardcaptor Sakura posters and this.
Sakura's Dragon
It's Sakura all right, but it sure as hell isn't by Clamp. It's a piece of fanart that I highly doubt is a licensed piece of merchandise, but it's being sold on a really big website. WTF! The artist is Alan Gutierrez and by clicking on his gallery you get more fanart! The most obvious would be the Sailor Scouts!!! Sailor Saturn. Sailor Jupiter and Nephlyte. Sailor Pluto. How the hell is this guy selling this stuff? Seriously! That's major copyright infringement there.
A quick google brought me to his website. If you look through his galleries, well gee, most of that stuff is fanart and guess what? You can buy a bunbh of that on Allposters too. How is this guy flying under the radar? Ugh. It's one thing for an artist to get a few bucks from a commission from a fan, but to sell them as original art pieces...that just pisses me off!
And that reminds me of another situation just like that, the "Taming Riki" series. It's fanfiction from Ai No Kusabi, yet this chick is publishing her fanfiction and selling them to people! Yep, look at her website. If you go to the books section, there's three volumes of "Taming Riki". It's not like this is an obscure series that nobody had heard about. DMP has licensed the original Ai No Kusabi novels and will be publishing them. So how is this chick getting away with her knockoff? Lots of people have heard of the fic but no one has challenged it? Why the hell not?
I'm full of rage right now and have no outlet for it -_- These people piss me off. I want to give someone a nice punch in the face right now. They selfishly endanger fandom cause they're greedy or stupid or something. Argh!
Sakura's Dragon
It's Sakura all right, but it sure as hell isn't by Clamp. It's a piece of fanart that I highly doubt is a licensed piece of merchandise, but it's being sold on a really big website. WTF! The artist is Alan Gutierrez and by clicking on his gallery you get more fanart! The most obvious would be the Sailor Scouts!!! Sailor Saturn. Sailor Jupiter and Nephlyte. Sailor Pluto. How the hell is this guy selling this stuff? Seriously! That's major copyright infringement there.
A quick google brought me to his website. If you look through his galleries, well gee, most of that stuff is fanart and guess what? You can buy a bunbh of that on Allposters too. How is this guy flying under the radar? Ugh. It's one thing for an artist to get a few bucks from a commission from a fan, but to sell them as original art pieces...that just pisses me off!
And that reminds me of another situation just like that, the "Taming Riki" series. It's fanfiction from Ai No Kusabi, yet this chick is publishing her fanfiction and selling them to people! Yep, look at her website. If you go to the books section, there's three volumes of "Taming Riki". It's not like this is an obscure series that nobody had heard about. DMP has licensed the original Ai No Kusabi novels and will be publishing them. So how is this chick getting away with her knockoff? Lots of people have heard of the fic but no one has challenged it? Why the hell not?
I'm full of rage right now and have no outlet for it -_- These people piss me off. I want to give someone a nice punch in the face right now. They selfishly endanger fandom cause they're greedy or stupid or something. Argh!
