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  • DRAKONICdrakonic@wetdry.world
    Oct 21, 2026, 10:36 AM

    @goes2hard @kett
    "intellectual property is currently the economic basis for all art made by small business owners"

    This is straight up false. The most reliable income models for independent creatives is either 1. Crowd-sourcing a wage for their labor (Patreon-type stuff) 2. Selling labor directly (commissions) 3. Selling material goods. None of these rely on IP. Income based on digital goods is flimsy and unreliable: either your product goes viral or your income dies.

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  • kris from the hit game deltarunegoes2hard@labyrinth.zone
    Oct 21, 2026, 10:58 AM
    @drakonic @kett if i spent the investment on doing this and sold someone else's style cloned digital art, i think it'd be copyright infringement (tho not sure about ip law on this, since i dont think art styles can be copyrighted, its a bit of a new field of law since the technology to do this is quite new)
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  • DRAKONICdrakonic@wetdry.world
    Oct 21, 2026, 11:34 AM

    @goes2hard however, yeah, if you’d used technological means to do it, gathered a dataset without the artist’s permission, then you’d be in hot water

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  • kris from the hit game deltarunegoes2hard@labyrinth.zone
    Oct 21, 2026, 10:47 AM
    @drakonic @kett selling material goods as in printed merchandise (of your art characters like, for example Marten Artz's merch) kinda does require IP, since without it someone can just make a knockoff of your product. i guess there some sort of honor usually applies since people tend to like an artist and want to support their work
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  • DRAKONICdrakonic@wetdry.world
    Oct 21, 2026, 11:40 AM

    @goes2hard i raise you indie project “convention artist” “fandom” merch

    A lot of anauthorised artists are making fan merch of stuff and it is generally not frowned upon

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  • kris from the hit game deltarunegoes2hard@labyrinth.zone
    Oct 21, 2026, 11:48 AM
    @drakonic you mean like someone selling a commission piece of like idk niko oneshot without being nightmargin themself? or something like selling oneshot buttons without being nightmargin? (though ? isnt that stuff literally fair use, at least according to US copyright law? if i make art using my own skill but characters of someone else, while not making a market substitute, im pretty sure it is fair use. itd be different if i made a clone of the videogame for example. though i also heard disney could sue you for selling mickey mouse art)

    though i guess it is a case by case thing here.
    if i was a small business artist and sold merch of my characters and someone else was undercutting me on product i sell using the art i made (like as in literally ripping the png and putting it on merch), i'd first just discourage my followers from buying, but if that wouldnt work and i suffered damages i might actually sue. (this scenario is what i was referring to with the material goods require ip.)
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  • DRAKONICdrakonic@wetdry.world
    Oct 21, 2026, 6:57 PM

    @goes2hard according to us copyright law, that is infringement, as you do not have rights to the intellectual property. Fair use is for "transformative" work - parody, for example.

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