JHoagland; the issue I am trying to figure out is "Just what is Fan Art", does it have to be a direct duplication of something, or a look-a-like, or merely resemble, or idealistic. Just how direct 1:1 does it have to be to be banned, or how 'distant but yet bing to the mind' before it's banned....

When one starts throwing around the words "Fan Art" then ChuckEvans' post starts coming into play....just about Everything in some way has it's roots somewhere, except for a few rare instances that someone comes up with something so different that it become 'original' and 'accepted'. As I understand it even the classic 'Parody' themes can fall into a 'fan art' catagory and 'parody' is not nessesarily the outragous type 'swap a man for a woman' theme but like Chuck says it can be a subbtle as little people that some preseve to be Hobbits or big bulky creatures that are preseved to be Trolls or wretched creatures that are preseved to be Orc or Ogres or a man flying around in a spaceship that can be preseved as any number of space related movies (that list alone would require it's own forum!)

I'm still confused why Vampirilla's outfit is fan art regarless who wears it but Dracula's outfit is not? this seams like a famale thing here....why can't guys have 'protected' designs but women can? that sounds kinda catty to me!

Message edited on: 12/01/2004 16:19