So, I know that there's a tag for official artwork, but are there any restrictions to what can and cannot be posted in regards to it? The reason I'm asking is because there are certain manga cover images I've found that I think would be relevant to the site. These are two of the images here, Image one, and Image two. Thanks!

dinob288 said:
So, I know that there's a tag for official artwork, but are there any restrictions to what can and cannot be posted in regards to it? The reason I'm asking is because there are certain manga cover images I've found that I think would be relevant to the site. These are two of the images here, Image one, and Image two. Thanks!

Have those images been released officially to the public completely for free, or have they been snipped out by fans? Given that manga is paid, the latter wouldn't be allowed. The former is (should?) be fine.

strikerman said:
Have those images been released officially to the public completely for free, or have they been snipped out by fans? Given that manga is paid, the latter wouldn't be allowed. The former is (should?) be fine.

Well, I don't believe these ones were released on their own for free, they were covers to individual chapters in the manga. However, that makes me wonder why this has stayed up, because it was also a cover for a chapter in the manga.
post #832364

dinob288 said:
Well, I don't believe these ones were released on their own for free, they were covers to individual chapters in the manga. However, that makes me wonder why this has stayed up, because it was also a cover for a chapter in the manga.
post #832364

IIRC that was approved before the rule about paid art not being allowed. It's still up most likely because the mods weren't aware of it or its origins.

(the rule was mostly about Patreon art but stuff like this ended up counting as well)

strikerman said:
IIRC that was approved before the rule about paid art not being allowed. It's still up most likely because the mods weren't aware of it or its origins.

(the rule was mostly about Patreon art but stuff like this ended up counting as well)

Ah, alright that makes sense. So those wouldn't be allowed then, but that one is because it existed before the rule. So, if I find official art of some sort on an official twitter account, or something that's public like exclusive art made for an ad, or maybe the box art to a game, that would be allowed then?

dinob288 said:
Ah, alright that makes sense. So those wouldn't be allowed then, but that one is because it existed before the rule. So, if I find official art of some sort on an official twitter account, or something that's public like exclusive art made for an ad, or maybe the box art to a game, that would be allowed then?

As long as it's been freely released by the original authors, it should be fair game.

strikerman said:
As long as it's been freely released by the original authors, it should be fair game.

Alright, well I'm glad that clears that up, thanks!

strikerman said:
IIRC that was approved before the rule about paid art not being allowed. It's still up most likely because the mods weren't aware of it or its origins.

(the rule was mostly about Patreon art but stuff like this ended up counting as well)

Yeah, even though there are many staff members which are great at determining when something uploaded is paid material, they do still slip by sometimes, simply by the nature of the site and constantly rising amount of content.
So similarly to other crowdsourced websites and websites hosting user generated content, we rely on flags and DMCA takedowns.

Also when it comes down to hosting coverart and individual pages of comics and manga, they really often can fall under fair use, so websites e.g. cataloging these would obviously have especially cover pages made available for obvious reasons. However for consistancy and easier enforcing, it's easier to say if it's paid, don't upload anything.

Also there has been many times where authors have released their older work freely later on, so even though the main reason for the rule change was because of the monetization of work transforming from physical medium into digital crowdsourcing platforms, in the end it should still be up to to copyright holders and authors to decide when their work is shared and where. Altough it would be much nicer if they would realize this themselves and not leave unobtainable content down for pirates to distribute for them, sometimes with no quality control.

Borrowing this thread because the title is relevant.

Is post #2956927 this really an acceptable upload? It's just a scan of a Nintendo 64 game's box art. Not even cropped to the Official_Art that's on the cover, but just a full scan of the box art. I don't mean to be a stickler, but it was just a post that made me go "wait, what...?"

sexygriffon said:
Borrowing this thread because the title is relevant.

Is post #2956927 this really an acceptable upload? It's just a scan of a Nintendo 64 game's box art. Not even cropped to the Official_Art that's on the cover, but just a full scan of the box art. I don't mean to be a stickler, but it was just a post that made me go "wait, what...?"

You can't crop the image without losing some portion of the art. That's just how n64 box design was.

lafcadio said:
You can't crop the image without losing some portion of the art. That's just how n64 box design was.

post #2956928 seems to have succeeded.

furrin_gok said:
post #2956928 seems to have succeeded.

That's not a crop, that's a different version entirely.

lafcadio said:
You can't crop the image without losing some portion of the art. That's just how n64 box design was.

Okay, but that's not what I was asking. I was asking, are we allowed to just upload scans of box art to this site? I figured that would be the sort of thing you wouldn't be allowed to do, or there's be a bunch of box art posts for anything vaguely furry.

sexygriffon said:
Okay, but that's not what I was asking. I was asking, are we allowed to just upload scans of box art to this site? I figured that would be the sort of thing you wouldn't be allowed to do, or there's be a bunch of box art posts for anything vaguely furry.

I think if that's the only version of the artwork that exists (pre-internet/early internet so no digital versions) it's fair for archival reasons.