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[emmuzka]

Oh my. This strenghtens my belief of sparkly pop fandom being slightly less vicious than some others. Check this one out . There is this woman who claims doing LOTR fan art and even sells her pics, but actually only fotomanips photographs that she took from various copyrighted sources. Then she gets mad because others are posting the pics to ridicule them, but the reason is that she really believes owning the copyrights on the manipulated pictures. Yeah, right. She has also forged actors autographs and what not. The result is this journal entry with over 4000 (!) comments.

Photomanipulated pictures are not art. They are *fan* art. There is a certain amount of originality on the idea level and moving away from the source on the surface level required to define something as new, creative work. Don't get me wrong, I like photomanips. I only hate the pics that are claimed to be real photographs or real charcoal schetches. The first one is slander and the second one is a fraud.

I personally don't understand those fan artists, either, who spend hours and hours drawing a very detailed picture by hand that ends up looking like a photograph. Why bother when a xerox copy could get the job done? I admit to using photographs as an aid to my pics, but that's only because I'm still studying my characters. And, I'm not selling them as art, heh.

ETA: There is a informative page about the whole dispute. (Link from embitca )

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[glendaglamazon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I promise that Sparkly fandom was like a sweet haven of normalcy after LotR and Lotrips! Y'all are quite civilized. While this is the biggest kerfuffle (and it really should be beyond that) I've seen in a while, such outrages are not at all uncommon.

Oh, and that chick was perpetuating even more of a fraud because she was selling prints of her "work" and claiming them to be original drawings. The level of her delusions is truly astounding.