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If by "vibrant art community" you mean "an endless firehose of low-grade porn and fetish junk based on existing properties," maybe.

• krapp 7y ago
  Most amateur art in any field is low quality, and likely porn. Sturgeon's Law always applies.
• GNOMES 7y ago
  Porn is inevitable though even with the laws... I think the parent is referring to people making games and writing stories based on popular franchises. Look at game companies stopping fan made games. I remember hearing about a fan remake of PS1 Metal Gear Solid. Was gathering huge fan far and had kojima's blessing, but the studio shut it down. https://gameranx.com/features/id/159002/article/10-incredible-fan-games-that-were-legally-taken-down/ https://gameranx.com/features/id/159002/article/10-incredibl... A success story for one fan project though was Sonic Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania I have also seen theories for movies on r/writingprompts that blow actual sequels out of the water.
• komali2 7y ago
  An endless firehose of art will have a bunch of weird shit in it yup, we've known that about the internet since like 2001. But then again, this is nothing new: (nsfw) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art#/media/File:Shuvalov_Painter_erotic_scene_Antikensammlung_Berlin_F2414.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art#/media/File:Shuvalo...
• Obi_Juan_Kenobi 7y ago
  Counterpoint: Night of the Living Dead NotLD entered the public domain because of a failure to apply a copyright indication. Largely due to this oversight, and entire genre of Zombie media has flourished unencumbered by restrictive IP. Obviously your cynical take on fan-art is despicable and ignorant, but there's no shortage of examples of what the commons can produce.