Aim wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:55 am
No, but it doesn’t make him a criminal. We all know the implications when you use such a loaded term such as that. Once again, Toei isn’t harmed by Mark at all, do you understand how much it would take to harm something as big as Toei?
He breaks the law by making money by producing clothing with characters he doesn't have the legal rights to.
It doesn't matter if the copyright belongs to a large company like TOEI or a small independent artist. The law is the law.
Also the amount in which he harms said copyright owner doesn't change legality of his actions.
He’s barely leeching. If anything it is a very symbiotic relationship. At this point you may as well say that people that earn money off of writing video essays on movies are leeching off another’s work.
No he's leeching. Without using other people's copyrighted content, he wouldn't have much of a channel and wouldn't be able to sell his bootleg shirts.
It’s not whataboutism when it relates to the topic at hand, when you use words make sure you use them properly. Toei is leeching off of others work as well, which does far more harm than Mark could ever do. Mark has taken a character and redrawn it in unique poses and in his unique art form, there’s nothing criminal or harmful about that. If anything it makes Toei’s products look better.
It actually is, since you try to divert the topic to TOEI and how they employ their animators instead of talking about how Mark bites the hands that feeds him. I'm not talking about TOEI and the relationship with their animators. I'm talking about Toei's relationship to Bootleg Mark. Mark who takes existing characters and illegibly makes money out of it. He doesn't "improve" TOEI's products since he only uses it to make money for himself.
Point is, if we are talking about leeching, everyone does it in your books then, the word basically has no meaning at this point. Only difference is Mark’s leeching is productive and not harmful to Toei. I’d argue since Toei’s leeching is harmful, there’s no reason to care who leeches off of them.
Again. What TOEI does to their employees doesn't matter. If you don't like a company, that's fine. That's no excuse to break the law.
What a stupid ass thing to say, “it’s just lazy”. You’re seriously out of it if you think that’s lazy just because he made art of something and sold it. If it was shitty art taken from video games or other merch I’d agree, but he drew it himself for the case of Kakarrot and others at least. It wasn’t lazy at all. I think you need to rethink your definition of lazy.
Please read my posts again. His drawings aren't bad and take time to create but taking other people's characters and simply profit from it is lazy from a conceptual standpoint.
He’s used a character that is loved, put it in a different style and did it himself, just because he didn’t make the character doesn’t mean it’s lazy. There are tons of people who just slap a generic Son Goku sticker from the games on T-shirts and call it a day. There’s barely anything lazy about what Mark has done. People like you won’t stop here with that, soon anything with spiky hair will be lazy even if people like Mark went original. There’s always inspiration somewhere. Only difference is Mark didn’t create the character, but he created a damn hell good atmospheric drawing around them though, which is far more creative than what Toei has ever put out.
Another whataboutism. Gee. If other people break the law with less effort it doesn't make it right for Mark to do it. And the TOEI bashing doesn't help your case.
Don’t walk back, you just said what he is doing is lazy, you called him a criminal even. You sound like such a boot licker.
Uhm whose boot am I supposed to be licking here? I am not walking back.Again, I said that the drawings take time and effort. Using copyrighted characters is lazy from a conceptual standpoint. The character is loved and established which makes selling your illegal bootlegs way easier.
It’s clear to anyone that has watched Mark’s videos he is extremely passionate about Dragon Ball, his decision to make money off of it most likely came from him wanting to make some profit off of something he enjoys talking about and drawing, regardless of whether he came up with the original idea or not. So is anyone that makes art for Toei are they now leeching? Or is it different because Toei dictates how much they are paid and reaps the profit for absolutely nothing they did?
The difference is that he doesn't make art for Toei. He takes Toei's characters and make art for himself and profits from it illegally.
And once again, the relationship between Toei and the animators doesn't matter.
