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They just don't. Either they don't want anyone but themselves posting their work or they want to removr all evidence. Unless the artist is already banned, just upload until a cease & desist is received by them.
It's also worth noting that some stuff uploaded here was meant by certain artists only for paying customers.
onlyaw said:
Pixiv is great, but the English tags are shit. Sites like this make the search for art easier, while giving credit, unlike most other places on the web.
So why do some artists not desire the benefit of exposure to an audience who enjoys their genre of work?
Because the voices in their head tell them so.
To give a more serious example, being able to retract an artwork can be important to an artist. Sure, once an image has been posted and someone else has saved it to their hard drive or device you can't truly eradicate it, but that's very different from an image being continuously hosted on a site you don't have any control over.
And as another example, a Japanese artist may not have any interest in their acclaim with an English-speaking community, especially if they're trying to make any amount of money from doujin sales. It's quite difficult for Americans (or indeed anyone outside of Japan) to buy doujin even if we want to - or put another way, it doesn't make economic sense for a small-scale doujin author to publish their work anywhere where non-Japanese fans could readily buy it. (The discussion on post #2428487 goes into some detail on the challenges involved in trying to buy doujin if you don't have a Japanese mailing address and can't get to Comiket and the like.)
Still, in a way, their reasons for not wanting their stuff here are irrelevant. Unless they declared their work public domain, they retain the copyright and have the absolute legal right to demand it be withdrawn from anywhere they haven't licensed it to, and need no other reason beyond "because I say so". (International copyright law can be confusing in the gray areas, but this isn't one of the gray areas.)
@tapnek The art for paying customers explains why this site has images with such absurd resolutions.
Thanks Mithiwithi, your post has given me a new perspective of this matter. Regarding doujin, I'm reminded that Japanese artists have no reason to care for us westerners.
Btw we have the same number of favorites.
kuuderes_shadow said:
Personally I won't upload from any new artist (ie. not on the site already) who specifically requests on their pixiv page for their work to not be hosted anywhere else under any circumstances. There's a surprisingly large number of them that say this.
That is prideful, especially coming from new artists.
Sacriven said:
These artist knows the nature of Internet. They simply don't want their art is uploaded somewhere and claimed by someone as their art, in other words "art-thief".
This is the number one reason I've seen artists everywhere not wanting their work reposted without permission.
It's not as bad nowadays, but years ago before image searches were so abundant and accessible there were tons of art-thieves stealing other people art and claiming it as their own.
If an artist has published a work for free and request for their work not to be reposted, I ignore this request it's good quality for here. I do not however publish content if it is behind a paywall such as Patreon without permission. In such a case I will make a specific request to them whether I can upload it here -- and hey in one case this was actually granted.
This isn't a tumblr, we are very careful to provide artist attribution to every post and provide people with the image source and really I think most artists wouldn't mind their art here if they understood this. If not they can just contact the admin.
