girldoesnothing:adu101:piranhapunk:languidness:joyouscatus:You remember that post about the homestuc
girldoesnothing:adu101:piranhapunk:languidness:joyouscatus:You remember that post about the homestuck t-shirt design contest collaborating with hot topic? And how Hot Topic are the biggest art thieves? This is recent. As you can see above, I stumbled upon Hot Topic’s website and they are selling a very popular fan art put on a t-shirt, and did not ask permission from the original artist (rismo).This shows Hot Topic still continues their art thievery. Hot Topic are still taking art from artists without their permission. This is disrespectful and appalling.EXCEPT YOU DID GIVE THEM YOUR PERMISSION.BY AGREEING TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS ON DEVIANT ART.THEY SOLD IT TO A THIRD PARTY ROYALTY-FREE.http://www.deviantart.com/submit/agreewoah oops deleting my deviantart account*instantly puts logo on my best pictures*6. Payment Unless otherwise agreed between Artist and deviantART in a writing from deviantART, the license granted to deviantART under this Agreement is royalty-free.DeviantArt you literal piece of shit5. Limitation Of Rights The rights and licenses granted to deviantART under sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement require deviantART to obtain Artist consent before deviantART makes any commercial agreement with anyone else to separately buy, license, re-sell or re-publish or commercially use any Artist Materials not in association with deviantART but as an individual work of art or as a group of works from a single Artist in isolation from any other works…deviantART will contact Artist in writing about any individual commercial uses of Artist Materials instigated by deviantART.By their own ToS, they should have contacted the artist for permission, assuming that the art was not outright stolen by Hot Topic.It would appear that the license referred to in section 6 allows the site to publish art on deviantART without paying royalties (see section 3). -- source link
#art theft#hmm