I've been in PSP tagging for a very long time.I've seen the copyright community of taggingbuild & grow. I've seen stores & taggers alikecome & fade away over time. I sit here tonight wondering what happenedto taggers caring? Certain images are off-limits.Especially when said images are actually being charged for.Free celebrity tubes or well known resemblance onesare another story. The free ones have a grey area.When Arthur Crowe started doing celebrities initially,there was outrage. It calmed down once he put them freeor as bonus tubes. Like I said grey area.CDO had to remove Twilight tubes at one pointby an artist. They apologized & admitted their mistake.Sure celebrity tubes have come up here & there in psp.The community has artists from around the world.I'm not referring to the ones such as Bettie Page- whichis often used. Often, she is one that is allowed to be created.However that may depend on the artist. Olivia for example had permission to create art of Bettie and later tubes.Special copyright was needed for those tubes. Not every country has the same copyright rules as another.But that means or should mean, its up to us taggersto set a better standard. Yet, it seems like our morals in a way have gone out the window.I sit here seeing taggers creating tags usingan image that I know can't be legal to use. How can we help the newer taggers learnthe rights & wrongs of copyright awaretagging if the older ones are breaking thevery rules we are trying to teach them?I'm not saying every tagger is guilty of this.Of course not, but why are we as a community so eager to accept, buy & tag imagesthat should raise red flags to us? I know we are surrounded by social media& artists & taggers are heavily influenced by it.Yet there needs to be a line drawn - a boundarythat our community will not cross. We've lost that boundary.
0 comments:
Post a Comment