One of many issues that artists face every day, with new technology and not enough time in the day to watch over our project, creativity and publicity as artists, Chris Brown seemed to of easily put up those red flags noticeably in the open. Best known for his music and for his assault on Rihanna, has ignited another controversy, this time in the creative world.
Every artist we know has fallen into something like this, just not with a well-known name. And in all technicality, it’s actually still in a vast gray area when you involve the world wide web. Sites like Deviantart though is trying to change that by bringing the laws directly to there website’s registration page and terms of uses pages.
Or like us, Drawlines Misfits, create your own website that will hold your artwork like a gallery, or even an art store to sell your works to your growing fans. Yes, we make websites, for artists of all types and photography for all types of modeling, just contact us at info@drawlines.net if you have any specific questions.
Giving credit when credit is do is the proper creative business way of things. Sadly like in our personal lives, the business world is full of thieving liars. Everyone has done it, even without knowing it or not giving it a second thought. But just cause everyone has, going, to take or upload an image that doesn’t belong to them doesn’t mean its ok. It’s the whole point of copyright, contracts, and licensing. Chris Brown found out the hard way when he ignited a social media war with Brooklyn-based cosplayer Naiquan Midyett a.k.a. CosplayNay.
Known on the comics conventions circuit for dressing up as Spider-Man with an urban twist, Peter Parker’s superhero counterpart Miles Morales. CosplayNay customized the costume with wearing Timberlands and a New York Yankees fitted cap.
His problems with Chris Brown (instagram link) began when Brown posted a photo of CosplayNay (instagram link) on his Instagram page. Problem was he not only cropped out the photographer’s watermark he neither gave credit to the photographer nor CosplayNay for their work.
CosplayNay reached out to Chris Brown and thanked him for posting CosplayNay‘s work on his instagram page, but asked him to kindly credit the photographer, and himself, for their part in creating the artwork that Chris Brown enjoyed so much.
Chris Brown responded by deleting the photo he’d posted, then putting up a “statement” on his Instagram page claiming that people shouldn’t complain about not getting tagged in Instagram posts, then claiming that people shouldn’t feel that they’re famous simply because they have a few followers on social media.
Naturally, Chris Brown’s (twitter link) fans sided with the singer and sometime painter, claiming that CosplayNay was only trying to get “shine” from Chris Brown’s fame.
chris brown and cosplaynay
CosplayNay, on the other hand, had a different story and even got Chris Brown to comment on the original post. CosplayNay’s fans, also had a lot to say about Chris Brown, and noted that if the situation were reversed if someone had taken Chris Brown’s artwork without his permission, or without giving him due credit he would be feeling the same way that CosplayNay was feeling right now.
For Brown’s part, he deleted all of the social media posts that were antagonistic towards CosplayNay, but the cosplayer still has all of his posts up on social media illustrating what had gone on.
The most obvious way to resolve this is to have your own site or post your creative projects on sites that secure your rights. Artists like us have to have a place to present our works for the world to see.
