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Originally posted by: AryaDrayCoByrne
^No way! That's quite unusual.
The fan artists on forums and here on IF don't copyright the image but how the images are put together, what effects and what textures and texts they have used. This is their copyright - their idea on how everything goes. so that other fans don't take it and flaunt it as their creations and gain praise for something they did not do - making siggies/vm takes a lot of time and patienceNow as for the image itself - everyone clearly knows who the copyright belongs to - for example if it is a harry potter picture then everyone knows that the original copyright holder for harry potter owns that.If the fans were to make the image themselves e.g. hand drawn cartoons/painting etc then that would be their own because they made that picture themselves even if it was of harry potter . (That's what I think, I am not a lawyer or anything 😆) Again in that case, every one knows who harry potter belongs too but that image belongs to that person.
True that. But I did come across a case once where Disney (I think?) sued a library because they drew a picture of Mickey Mouse (on one of the walls, I think?). Something like that... Pretty bizarre. I don't know if they won the case or not, but I think it takes a lot of money if you want to fight a case, no matter how unfair.
Of course, copyright laws also differ with countries. But unless you have a really thorough and fair judicial system in place, IP laws can be greatly misused.
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