Is it ok to use people’s art as an advertisement or an inspiration?
Is it ok to use people’s art as an advertisement or an inspiration?
Personally, I would say no for other artists to use a picture of the other artist’s work as an advertisement but it would be ok to get inspired from the artwork and create their own art.
My research has shown that nothing is new, everything got influenced by other things which means everything is a remix.
This is an example of how people in the tattoo community are not aware even of the concept of copyright and art theft even when it is highlighted they still do not recognise and understand when their work is being appropriated.
However, I don’t think emerging artists or many artists know what copyright is. With time I hope I can slowy make some change by educating them.
She-shan-yu updates on her VISA
As she informs her followers that she can stay and continue her tattoo career in the UK with the visa that she applied for, but not as a tattoo artist. She did get her global talent visa from the arts council as an illustrator artist.
I have not known that there is a Crafts Council UK before until I spoke to a classmate about my project and she told me about it. I did research on crafts council UK and it appears to me that tattooing is in both craft and art.
This made me question why, and the arts council said that tattoo artist is in a grey area then why not make it clear? Is there any organisation that can decide to support tattoo artists? And why does arts council UK seems more powerful than crafts council? Do people not value the craftwork enough? Why can it not be Arts and Crafts council UK?
“Tattoos date back many thousands of years. In fact, we have firm evidence that tattooing is an ancient art form, after discoveries of tattoos on mummified skin were found. The oldest evidence of human tattoos is believed to be from between 3370 BC and 3100 BC”
This quote has shown that the tattoo industry is not new, it has been there for a very long time. And again why is it not clear yet? Is it too cool, too underground to be clear?
She did mention that she would love to make some changes to this issue and upgrade the tattoo industry. As she has 15.6k followers on her Instagram account.
I am still thinking of how will she change that? Could be by raising awareness and educating, making artists aware about this issue and that would be something that I and her and any artist can change and drive the industry forward.
More than 1 person can have the same idea
I have learned from my research that nothing is new, everything is remixed. We have been influenced by one thing to another. I understand that to make your artwork unique is to put yourself into the work, then it will become different. As we put our identity it to the work. Then it will become your own style.
I also understand that we are not the only one in the world that invented the design. If the design is simple, it might have been done before.
In this case “More than 1 person can have the same idea”. That means it doesn’t count as copying work. But how do we know where is the line in this issue?
However, an artist found out that the other artist did have a similar style of work but they were doing it before…
I think it would be a good idea for my research and for a tattoo industry generally to have a registration of time or even have the same understanding in terms of doing a design for a tattoo, so we don’t cross the line between each other. And it would benefit the clients to choose to collect the art as individuality of the artist.