A Thumbs Up from Community Observers
The results of the latest TSSZ News @Issue poll indicate a majority of fans were pleased with Sumo Digital’s response to the discovery of a piece of fan work that slipped through the cracks, and ended up becoming a part of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.
Our two week poll asked if you were satisfied by the response, which included a personal apology from Sumo’s Steve Lycett and a shipment of goods to DeviantARTist RianaLD. Out of 438 votes, 58 percent said the matter was handled well. Still, 23 percent felt the situation should have never occurred in the first place, while six percent felt not enough was done to rectify the situation.
Thirteen percent of those polled were unsure.
A new poll is now available for you to vote on. You can discuss the latest results below, in our discussion area.
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first comment! lol ^_^
Seriously you’re making a big deal out of nothing. It’s not like she owned the art in the first place. In fact it’s the complete opposite. The character in question belongs to Sega/DIc. So they have all the right in the world to do what they want with it. If they felt like it they could even say, no one’s allowed to make fan art of Sonic characters ever again. The reason Sega and all companies for that matter are very lose with this is because it results in free publicity. They still own the rights to the characters and ever instance in which they are portrayed. Now, if the work was done in a parody manner then there would be a problem, but that’s not the case. Not helping is the matter that the artist did nothing to secure the work as her own. The copyright she put on was applied wrong and thus doesn’t count, and there was no creative commons license. She should be glad that it was Sega who took her work as the way it is anyone can take it and claim it as their own (not saying this is right, but this is why a proper knowledge of copyrights is needed, especially for artwork).
If I made a fan drawing of a character, like Sonic vs. Emerl, and Sega came out of nowhere, took the drawing, and put it in one of their games… I’d be happy!
I would be jumping for joy knowing my fan art is in a Sega game. That and I would try to speak to Sega about being artist for them. Think about? Your a fan who draws fan art of your favorite character, and the creators use your art… You must be doing something right, so try to take baby steps so you can be a official artist of Sega.
I agree with some stuff MilesDX said. But I still don’t think you should just take art from a fan and put it in the game before asking. I mean, if someone make a picture that is in the game, he or she should get credit cus it’s that person who put done maybe alot of work on it. So it’s still wrong, it might be SEGA’s chracter, but not theri picture. So I still think it shouldn’t happend in the first place. But they gave her apolegise and that’s good!