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[lilian_cho]

1. I have qualms re: image sharing sites because it's borderline art theft.

2. I can't help browsing pictures there anyway. (Lame-yet-true excuse: Pixiv is sloooooow going. Am slowly browsing the Chuugoku tag there but it's not v. browsing-friendly =S)3. I can't help wanting to translate some of the doujinshi I found

Comments

[opsat]

I guess it's ok if the images shared by people are their own. The problem comes in if the images turn out to be someone else's and not their own. As long as the one who shares is the one who owns, it's their choice to share it. =)
Another problem would be preventing people from copying the images and posting it elsewhere. If the site can prevent that, then it should be ok.

Probably nothing wrong with making translations too, as long as you acknowledge that the original work is not yours. But that particular translation is yours...

Further explanation on above sketchy explanation

[lilian_cho]

(ETA: Fixed a typo, sry for double comment)I was talking specifically about Hetalia fandom, but animanga fandom in general has a large number of Japanese doujinshika. Japanese fans intentionally make their fanarts hard to access/browse. They'd go to extra measures to make sure their art/site is not Google-able

Re: Further explanation on above sketchy explanation

[opsat]

Ahhhhh. I see. Hehehe. I find it a bit unusual how one would want to limit access to fanarts they upload. I had this thought that they'd want more people to see their work. I actually want to make my sites more Google-able and not the opposite. Hehehe. But maybe that's just me. =P And true, if other people are only going to steal their work, maybe they'd want to limit access to it. I think there are ways to put a copyright on things or make it so it's not copy-able (disable right clicking and things like that), but maybe that takes a little figuring out. =)

Re: Further explanation on above sketchy explanation

[lilian_cho]

I guess to them it's probably more of a secret hobby that they share with like-minded* fans?

If their art is plastered is all over the Internet then... =/

Probably also why Japanese Hetalia fans mostly use human character names instead of nation names (e.g. Alfred instead of America, Honda Kiku instead of Japan, etc. Hetalia is about personified nations, FYI.) If they use nation names then a non-Hetalia person might find their work by accident...

(I find myself using "..." more since I started taking Japanese class >_>)

I think the majority of Western/English-speaking fans are like you, in that we like having more people finding our fanworks. But we still would probably be kinda "Ehhh?!" if a non-fan found our fanworks by accident.

Japanese fanartists do things like having passwords on their sites (hint of what the password is would be in Japanese), but people obviously can get around those. And among those who got in would be a few who think it's awesome to "share" the artworks wily-nily on the Internet =/

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