You probably know about those imaginary art subreddits, where you can share art with specific theme (e.g., ImaginaryMonsters where you can share artwork with…imaginary monsters, yes) and there is a bunch of these. I was thinking of making one community that I would call something like ImaginaryAnything where people could share art with any theme, and just mention the theme in the title, instead of having 100s of communities for each specific one, since lemmy is pretty small still. There already are some specific imaginary communities on lemmy but non of them are really active.

My main concern is copyright issues, would there be any? I wouldn’t want to cause the instance admin any problems. Every post would be required to credit the author and to link the source, but could images hosted on the instance cause problems? In case they could, would linking the source image link instead of uploading it to the instance avoid such problem?

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    I’m not sure what you’re asking, you mean if you use a copyrighted image and tweak it slightly?

    or like drawing Mario and you’re worried Nintendo is going to sue?

    is it just fan art?

    in all those cases, yes, uploading to a different site and then posting the link here would remove the instance one separation from liability.

    • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      No, the images would be untouched. And those don’t really contain copyrighted characters either.

      The reason to upload it directly to an instance would be just for better combability with lemmy (some image links may not show correctly on lemmy, or may be missing the thumbnail…)
      On reddit, they upload it directly, and link the source.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        If it’s just for compatibility’s sake, I haven’t had any problem uploading any images in any format I’ve tried to Lemmy so far, and I upload a lot here, so I don’t think you’re going to have any trouble there.

        If that’s your only concern, I don’t think you have much to lose by trying to upload stuff and then seeing how it goes.

          • Wistful@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Haha, I’m not sure what you mean by that. I’m simply wondering if having someones artwork uploaded on a lemmy instance (even if credited) can cause copyright issues. I don’t really know how that works.

            Edit: Maybe I’m wording it incorrectly. I’m talking about someone filing a DMCA complaint / “unlawful reproduction or distribution of their work”…