Art not made officially by staff of a manga or animation would be the best way to describe fan art. That’s much different than saying art made by people or fans since staff or authors also make their own not so official art. What would you consider that since not all of their illustrations and works may be from series they worked on? They are more than a simple fan and some images they share may also be official ones.
The fact is many people believe it’s fine to take an image off of another blog that was taken from Anime News Network that got it from an official site or announcement to post on a discussion forum. It takes money and effort to get a digital camera and scanner to produce images from real life objects not previously added to the net. This brings me to a good supporting point of how the Internet is. If you make anything creative and share it publicly on the net, what do you expect everyone to do? Not saying it’s okay to be a jerk, but not everyone using fan art has a malicious intent and the uploader should know the possibility of others using their work without permission.
Human beings like recognition and linking to their image account or site shows you support them, however, don’t assume all artists are upset when they see their work used without permission. They may simply enjoy knowing someone liked their art enough to use. This being said, not all sites have field or detail areas when uploading a image and other sites may not be focused on comments and image details. Then what?
The best the artist can do is add a watermark or sign their name and put a notice where images are displayed that you wish to be linked to or asked before having an image used. The best blogger, graphic creator, or web disigner can do is link back, ask, or ask around for the source if unknown. One thing you can learn to do is add the artist or source name when saving an image so you can remember and so that some image hosts may keep that file name in the url or details page. Or just don’t upload at all…any of you.
Besides, people like to be able to find more. On a semi-related note, this community does have a link directory for anime and manga illustration and our gallery does have a copyright area.
Opera has just announced a fairly huge new feature in their new version of their web browser. You can host sites and files from your computer and browser easily. Of course you’d have to have your computer and Opera running for it to work, but it’s easy and free.
Even though you have to create an account of sorts to get urls, Opera claims there is privacy. That’s actually the point of this. We all know how so many of us anime and manga fans download illegally and legally. I wonder if the developers of Opera are counting on this to be abused in order to make the browser popular or if there’s a way to report abuse. Either way this will be used for images or…media. Hope you have a fast net connection.
Click here to view likely one of the most amazing and refreshing sites for web design. It’s a social bookmarking site that’s much like Digg, Furl, or Reddit. It’s focus however is on showing off websites or pages with unique and amazing coding or looks. Many feature Flash and others range from the simple to the complex. Straightline Bookmarks is fairly English friendly since it has English, images link to the site, and some of the linked to sites are also in English if not in mulitple langauges. There’s actually more to Straightline which can be seen on the homepage. Hopefully the site can get enough attention and users to become much larger and diverse.
So while I wait rather impaitently for the release of the Astray gundam kit next week (which I will be doing a rather lengthy post on as I construct it) I thought i’d try and keep my bordem to a minimum with a rather basic topic. Desktops. Everyone has them, everyone has different tastes. Heres mine and I invite you to show off your own in return. What say you?
Few things in case your wondering.
I have the start menu on auto hide. I’d disable it with a program but I do use it from time to time
On the left is a program called Rainmeter. Great program for a few set useful things
Everything except for the winamp controller and network traffic meter, is from the same skin which is avaliable Here
Program on the right is Rocketdock. Same thing as Objectdock, but free and cleaner
I’m using Windows 7 beta, so if anyone knows how to get rid of that damned recycle bin, PLEASE tell me. I hate it there
Around the net there are a great many anime streaming, anime download, and ripped wallpaper sites. Many of them are either filled with ads or have ads placed in areas where they’re seen well. There’s nothing wrong with making profit from a site, but would it make a difference if the management of those sites don’t watch anime or even think positively of anime fans? There is likely a difference somewhere in having a site generate revenue from a subject they like and just using its users. These are a couple quotes from around the web and it’s just a hint of what is thought.
My anime site […] has been doing exceptionally well due to some members on my site. I embedded a chatango chat and I guess allot of “anime tards” got pretty addicted to it and swear by it, lol. So if you wanna get tons of traffic try finding some “nerds” with an addictive personality to run the forum/chats on your anime site and watch the revenue roll in.
getting anime nerds to run anime websites usually like getting free employees with no lives
Maybe this is okay and you’re fine with it. However, these countless manga viewing, download, and streaming sites aren’t helping the animanga industry or even to some extent fansubbers and scanlations groups. Nobody is going to pay attention to a 1-3 staffed manga scanning group when they request for their scans to be removed. …when it was added without permission or the series was licensed. A TV Tokyo executive has also recently commented on such sites for the decline of the anime industry in non-Japanese speaking countries. Fansub groups can stop fansubbing, but what good is that when the video has already spread to those unwilling to respect a licensing?
Wikipedia is a wonderful site for information despite the spoilers. It’s best used when you’re writing when you don’t wish to spend time creating a summary or telling some of the readers something they already know. It’s not so helpful when used to explain for you everything you wanted to say. Wikipedia isn’t perfect and nobody is saying that Wiki sites shouldn’t be used or linked to. Many anime and manga pages contain episode summaries on the main page or carelessly drop spoilers. Perhaps it’s the Wiki user’s fault or maybe that’s how the largest encyclopedia site wishes to be, but it’s something to think about before linking, though.
One other issue is giving credit to Wikipedia for information when there’s sources you can link to instead provided by the site itself. It would surely help other sites get some nice attention, too.
I have had series like Bokurano almost ruined, but it does make up for it with the epic CLAMP versus Clamp debate when users were deciding if the mangaka group should be all caps. At the moment it is Clamp. Maybe let CLAMP decide?
