How are artists legally able to sell fan art at anime or comic conventions?
February 28th, 2010 | by admin |I am an animation student that is interested in selling art work at different conventions. I noticed that most people were selling fan art at Anime Expo and I am just curious as to how this is legally possible. Would it be best to try to sell my (completely unheard of) original artwork or create some fan art? I never create fan art normally but I would like to get my name out there and show my ability and it seems that usually people swarm the fan art.
It is considered a copyright infringement to sell work depicting characters like Naruto, Batman, etc, since you would be using someone else’s creation for profit. From what I’ve heard, you can get sued for doing so.
However, companies tend to turn a blind eye towards such a practice, and some conventions have regulations upon the topic. I’d suggest researching the convention website and look up their policy about selling fan art.
One Response to “How are artists legally able to sell fan art at anime or comic conventions?”
By pikachufan1467 on Feb 28, 2010 | Reply
It is considered a copyright infringement to sell work depicting characters like Naruto, Batman, etc, since you would be using someone else’s creation for profit. From what I’ve heard, you can get sued for doing so.
However, companies tend to turn a blind eye towards such a practice, and some conventions have regulations upon the topic. I’d suggest researching the convention website and look up their policy about selling fan art.
References :
http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/printthread.php?t=139179&page=1&pp=15
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanart