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Question: how do you propose preventing other people from making copies of this art and selling it, without revealing your identity? If you want to use copyrig

Question: how do you propose preventing other people from making copies of this art and selling it, without revealing your identity? If you want to use copyright to protect your work, and end up suing, remaining pseudonymous will be difficult. Courts will only sometimes allow an anonymous/pseudonymous complaint. Even when they do allow it, they may require that defendant be given access to your real name, even if it remains sealed from the public. Even if you are somehow successfully in remaining anonymous to the court, the defendant, and the public, you are only going to be able to do that via being represented by an attorney, who will most likely need to know your name, and the attorney’s identity will be public. (The attorney would likely need to know your real name for ethics reasons, like making sure they are not representing a defendant you are suing in some non-private lawsuit. ) But given you don’t trust institutions to not leak identity, I suppose you cannot trust the attorney to either.

boppo1 4y ago
I won't bother with copyright. It's already mostly impossible anyway. If you make illustrations these days you can't prevent their distribution. Only situation worth bothering with copyright is if a major company/high paid illustrator lifts your work, and even then it's tenuous (look up "sail lin call of duty floof"). The way to make money as an independent is to make distinct/unique content people can immediately recognize as yours and open up donations (patreon). You can also time gate access to new work to some extent. If there's a better model, I'm unaware. Copyright disproportionately protects large firms, not individual creators. There are exceptions, of course, but they are far from the norm. Hell, most big companies I've worked at have clauses that say I assign them all rights to all work I make while employed with them. Those are fun to deal with. Short of massive success, I would be better off as an illustrator if copyright were entirely dismantled. I trust attorneys on a case-by-case basis. So far the ones financially aligned with me have been swell.

boppo1 4y ago

I won't bother with copyright. It's already mostly impossible anyway. If you make illustrations these days you can't prevent their distribution. Only situation worth bothering with copyright is if a major company/high paid illustrator lifts your work, and even then it's tenuous (look up "sail lin call of duty floof"). The way to make money as an independent is to make distinct/unique content people can immediately recognize as yours and open up donations (patreon). You can also time gate access to new work to some extent. If there's a better model, I'm unaware. Copyright disproportionately protects large firms, not individual creators. There are exceptions, of course, but they are far from the norm. Hell, most big companies I've worked at have clauses that say I assign them all rights to all work I make while employed with them. Those are fun to deal with. Short of massive success, I would be better off as an illustrator if copyright were entirely dismantled. I trust attorneys on a case-by-case basis. So far the ones financially aligned with me have been swell.