RE: The Fault in our Art Study: Plagiarism
I have not heard from you for a while @adamada.
Art plagiarism is a difficult subject to tackle. I have said it before, it is not only hard to detect, but the lines are often blurred.
The most important message I got from your personal experience is this line:
The difference lies in the intent of the art. Plagiarism aims to deceive while learning by imitation is directed at studying the process.
It also applies to other unsavory practices the anti-abuse community comes across daily. Often, figuring out the intent reveals whether a person is a bad actor.
To quote another known artist on the platform:
First of all, it is not bad to be inpired by other artists, many artist are inpired by some artworks, artists.
But never ever has a famous artist copied the style AND the motive of a fellow artist.
These were the words of @elgeko and here is the link to that comment.
To all the budding artists on the chain, I implore them to tread the thin line with care. Everything you do on this platform carries a financial consequence. You do not want to be caught profiting off of cheap clones of other artists' work down the road. That could be detrimental to your career and reputation.
The blockchain always remembers. Do not, for a second, think everything you do here is water under the bridge. They will stand as testament against you when your façade crumbles.
In short, cite your inspirations, especially if you are learning and discovering yourself.
Anyhow, I am looking forward to your thoughts on the matter in the future, @adamada.
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The recent months made me busy mostly irl matters. I would love to make frequent doodle posts but those don't really get me near my main goal of moving up to digital art so it would take hours for me to finish a piece and have a fresh post to go about.
As for the art plagiarism, I think the platform is relatively small enough that everyone that makes something nice would get noticed among the sea of art. Abuse under this category is still hard to catch and there's a lot of gray areas when discussing intent.
Unlike blatant plagiarism from article spinning, art plagiarism can take in so many forms and some instances don't guarantee the observer a clear picture on how is really culpable. I may even post a replica of my Da Vinci's study series and "forgot" to decline the rewards, that might merit me foul on some artist's for monetizing ideas that ain't mine even when I'm just sharing for the study.
There's also the temptation of sharing practice posts for the sake of sharing but they these are intended to share and monetization comes as a second benefit. It's a blog and a platform that can potentially provide you an avenue to profit from sharing quality practice posts. You're not claiming it's your work but it's a practice on studying someone else's work, but then you get rewards for trying?
If you're not allowed to monetize even practice posts, then why should posts that don't really have sense get to trending and are tolerated better than artists who make effort making practice posts into fine blogs?
I don't intend these questions to be answered by you. They are asked for the sake of anyone reading this response to think about the issue themselves. This blockchain has many dynamics to improve on and learn from.
Thank you for your review, @enforcer48! Keep up the good work!