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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
On both cases the artist (or "artist", sorry, I can't call someone who only produces fanart an artist, maybe a "fanartist") aren't getting the money from their work. Ayumi (or any other artist) doesn't work to make you happy, she works for money (even because, producing Ayumi Hamasaki is an expensive task by itself), and when someone relies on piracy to get her releases, she isn't paid by her work. Nor her musicians, her dancers, her producers, her stylists, the guys who construct the stage or even the graphic designers people are claiming to defend here. So, the final outcome of both actions aren pretty much the same.
Also, the fanart people are getting her work, changing it and posting it on the internet for free... So, not only are they messing with someone else's intellectual propoerty (and trust me, painting color on an already taken photo is easier than taking the photo, and producing a temporary logo based on a logo that was already done by professionals is far, far easier than producing the original logo, that is so well made it has been around and totally effective for almost two decades), they are demanding rights over it.
Not to say those people shouldn't produce their own take on her stuff, they can do whatever they want... And I believe a lot of really good artists can come out of this process, by copying and editing someone else's stuff until they are able to do their own thing... But even if I agree some kind of shout out would be the best thing for Ayu to do, it's not like there's anything that could really be protected over here. In the end of the day, the fanart producers are the ones messing it up with her work, not the other way around.
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Agree.
Unfortunately people are greatly influenced by movies, medias, etc that always portrays the demoniac firm that stole the little artist since more than 50 years now.
But in this case, we're not in the same affair as the fan is the one who is using at first something that doesn't belong to him and never asked the firm to use it. So if the fan didn't have the respect to ask to Avex and Ayu to use her face or her logo in one of his work, why Avex should do it? When you're doing thinks in such way don't complain if the other do the same thing to you because implicitly you send the message that you don't care about that.
People think that they can do whatever they want just because he is a fan or he make it for its personal use. But the reality of the law and the copyright is different from what you're thinking. Try to do a copy of Rene Magritte's paintings for you personnal use and you'll see quickly that you can't without asking the society that is responsible for right of authors.