Even if one agreed with him, he’s not actually doing, in this post, what he proposed there, which is linking to the source:
Linking to the source should be the primary way of attribution.
Like, setting aside the whole question of whether-or-not stripping out the artist name is reasonable or not, what we’re actually getting is the comic with no artist name or source link. @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social had to dig up the original by doing a reverse image search and linked to the original himself.
i’m assuming these are so closely cropped because you’ve cut out the title & artist attribution, hence the request to repost them uncropped.
They don’t deserve your attempt at good faith. OP believes that leaving in the comic name or artist’s signature is “advertising”.
https://lemmus.org/post/21226925
They have been caught repeatedly removing them through cropping and poor use of AI.
Even if one agreed with him, he’s not actually doing, in this post, what he proposed there, which is linking to the source:
Like, setting aside the whole question of whether-or-not stripping out the artist name is reasonable or not, what we’re actually getting is the comic with no artist name or source link. @JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social had to dig up the original by doing a reverse image search and linked to the original himself.
gross, there should definitely be a rule against stealing people’s work & reposting it without credit so no one can find or support the artists 😮💨
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