Thread:Jamie/@comment-1713281-20130422015313/@comment-1713281-20130422022927

On the same token: In the event that it is not clear who the original artist is--i.e. the file name is not the same name that you end up with when you save a picture off of Deviant Art, or the photo does not give clear indication that the original artist has given permission to upload--should we be asking users if they are the original artist, or if the artist has ok'd the upload of their work?

I ask as I have a feeling that a lot of them will be art taken from other people/sites and uploaded with a properly formatted (for our site) name, in which case they would need to go as well.

I think that doing so would seriously deplete our fan art galleries, but I also think that having less fan art would be better than having a lot of fan art that was posted here in violation of our policies, and/or without the permission of the original authors.