Huh?
Okay now that I know I can mark it as private — so that I’m not selling the very art you’re not selling 
— I’ll see what I can do 
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It’s Disney’s work? Which is why I took everything down cause I didn’t want them to go smashy smashy on my head?
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Oh. It’s your work which is a take on Disney’s original work.
There’s loads of that stuff out there. But I get the concern. The whole teeshirt debacle was a good example I guess, even though Disney didn’t come at you per se.
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I got a cease and desist from the Elf On The Shelf company once 
I backed down, but only after an email conversation where I first told them that I hadn’t breached their copyright (turns out I had) and after I basically said ‘Pleeeeeeeeeease can I keep doing what I’m doing but with your permission?’. That was a firm no!! 
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While at the last FARTS, I actually talked to one of the Disney Artists about this. According to them, Disney usually adopts an apathetic stance so long as I am not copying official promotional work and/or something Disney has already done (ie, a frame from a movie or a poster they’ve done) and claiming it as my own, or doing something that is derogatory to their brand.
This is absolutely up to the copyright holder though and just because Disney ignores me doesn’t mean someone else would too (ie @Shmebulock’s elf on the shelf story.) In fact, back in the early 2000s, I got a cease and desist from the owners of Godzilla for using the name “zilla” in a company’s website with their logo having a green-hued lizard in it (these were not my design decisions, mind you, as I was just doing as directed for what the client wanted). I was willing to fight cause I felt there was enough of a difference (and I would’ve been proven correct), but my boss wasn’t interested and we immediately changed everything.
But compared to that, this is no contest that I’m using characters I don’t own and if they want to smack me around for it, they would have every right. But again, so long as I’m sticking to the “positive fan art” route of things and not selling anything, I don’t think Disney is going to care. And right now, they got bigger PR fish to fry than coming after some nobody like myself.
But, say if they were super petty, there’s even an argument that I am technically not allowed to even share the above images regardless if I’m selling them or not. The gist of the argument is “if you can get your image from me, you won’t seek out an official Disney one.” Which, personally, I don’t think holds true, but that’s the law.
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Funny you should post about that as I was thinking about this exact thing last night. The artists who are there are using the same characters that they don’t own to create all of the art that exists within that festival and on Disney’s own property where they would arguably want to push the easily obtained official merch they are selling in their shops. I guess it’s strange that those people can create and sell their stuff but someone else would get slapped on the wrist for it. I’m looking at a couple of Kaminskis I have in my office right now and they are more similar in terms of how they look to the Disney characters than your badass princesses.
It’s all a little bit weird to me, just because I’m coming from a place of ignorance to these laws/scenarios than you might be given your profession. They could get around this “perceived conflict” simply by inviting you to FARTS 
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Sort of related, in a humorous way - If you want to see ideas of bad knockoffs of Disney characters, modified to not exactly be them, then watch the new Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie. The plot involves illegal bootleg copies.
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Right???
I mean… whatsaguygottado??
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The difference there is both tiny and huge - ‘Permission’
Anything goes if Disney says it’s ok.
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You apparently can get a license to sell stuff? But i have no idea how that happens as everyone I’ve talked to who gets the license was approached by Disney, and not the other way around.
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So you say
Did these people tell you that they were approached by Disney?
Or did you fail to ask questions?
Well the ones at the festival were invited, so I assume yes to that one. But I’ve also talked to a few who post their stuff on instagram and other sites and they all said the same: after attending conventions and doing the work for a while, Disney approached them.
So, it’s probably like the usual influencer formula: get famous enough on your own and the big leagues will take notice of you.
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Gorgeous!!!
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Is the first picture her in the air above MK?
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Yeah. Kinda a play off the fireworks.
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My friend at work is going to LOVE this!!!
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@Randall1028 did you see this? Uniqlo is running a t-shirt contest.
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…whoa… 
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From the rules:
- Artworks must be newly developed by the entrants only for UTGP2023, and must have never been published before.
booo so everything I’ve done up until now isn’t applicable (or do you think it’s so low volume they wouldn’t care?). The Frozen stuff would be the first that would clear this
however also
- Entrants shall not use the Artwork for their own purposes including but not limited to the submission of Artworks to other design competitions.
Definitely don’t like that
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