What is the strategy that Internet users have taken to judge the evil bot that sells illustrations posted on Twitter without permission?



You can easily publish your drawings and manga on SNS such as Twitter, but some people use these works without permission. Some companies and sites seem to make money by using artwork such as illustrations without permission, and Internet users take creative strategies to judge such sites.

Artists are provoking Nintendo, Disney to sue bots that steal artwork-Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/2019/12/5/20997056/i-want-that-on-a-shirt-bots-copyright-infringement-twitter

From around December 2019, the following tweet suddenly started to spread on Twitter.

The tweet says 'Someone wants to make this illustration a T-shirt!', But the image attached to the tweet says 'Stolen artwork is sold on this site, so don't buy it Is written.



In another tweet, “I love this artwork! Nice illustration! God! I want this T-shirt!”, But the attached picture says “This is Disney ’s It ’s not a licensed product, it ’s not a parody, we ’re working hard on copyright infringement and I ’d like to appeal to Disney. We ’re ready to pay all the court fees. ” The



You can understand why tweets with discrepancies in the text and attached images are posted one after another by reading a post by Twitter user @OkazuYuri .

@OkazuYuri says, “The following is a list of several sites that automatically turn the artwork stolen from Twitter artists into T-shirts, etc. Please do not purchase products from these sites. We will report if you find '. Apparently, a bot that analyzes tweets like “I like this illustration! Make it a T-shirt!” Sells T-shirts that have stolen artwork on some sites.



@OkazuYuri mentioned the following site that says “You can make Twitter user artwork without permission”. The following sites are all services that can create original T-shirts from illustrations and other images.

TeeChip



Get Your Own Trendy Shirt-CopThisTee



Gearbubble



TEE SHIRT PUBLIC



Teezily | Buy, Create & Sell T-shirts to turn your ideas into reality



Toucan Style



On the Toucan Style website there is a page with the URL ' toucanstyle.com/this-site-sells-stolen-artwork-tshirt ' (this site sells T-shirts with stolen artwork) And on this page, it seems that there was probably a T-shirt version of an image that says 'Please don't buy because this site sells stolen artwork!' However, at the time of article creation, it is marked on the page as 'Sorry, this page is no longer available'

Toucan Style



As an attempt to protect the artist's artwork, why Disney's name and Mickey Mouse illustration were used, Disney has made various attempts to protect Mickey Mouse's copyright in the past It seems to be because it is.

What kind of copyright law changes have been made so far to protect the copyright of Mickey Mouse? -GIGAZINE


By CHRISTOPHER DOMBRES

As the artists on Twitter begin to implement the above strategy to protect their artwork, many similar issues will be gathered on the Internet.

Twitter user @Talchyr pointed out that apparel products that infringe copyright are on the open marketplace.



In addition to the above cases, there are a lot of non-genuine products that infringe copyrights on the online store. For example, “ Baby Yoda ”, which gained explosive popularity on the Internet as soon as it appeared in “The Mandalorian”, had a large amount of unofficial goods .

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