WOODLANDIA FAN ART

TYPES OF FAN ART

Woodlandia Fan Art can take many forms. The broad availability of digital image processing and the Internet has greatly increased the scope and potential reach of fan art. In addition to traditional paintings and drawings, Woodlandia fan artists may also create conceptual, sculpture, video art, livestreams, web banners, avatars, graphic designs or web-based animations, as well as photo collages, posters, artistic representations of quotes from a work or artistic representations of people or characters in new contexts or in contexts that are in keeping with the original series.

COPYRIGHT

The legal status of derivative fan made art in Woodlandia may be tricky due to the vagaries of the Principality of Woodlandia Copyright Act. Generally, the right to reproduce and display pieces of artwork is controlled by the original author or artist. Fan art using settings and characters from a previously created work could be considered a derivative work, which would place control of the copyright with the owner of that original work. Display and distribution of fan art that would be considered a derivative work would be unlawful.

However, Woodlandia copyright law allows for the production, display and distribution of derivative works if they fall under a fair use exemption. A court would look at all relevant facts and circumstances to determine whether a particular use qualifies as fair use; a multi-pronged rubric for this decision involves evaluating the amount and substantiality of the original appropriated, the transformative nature of the derivative work, whether the derivative work was done for educational or noncommercial use, and the economic effect that the derivative work imposes on the copyright holder's ability to make and exploit their own derivative works. None of these factors is alone dispositive.

Woodlandia courts also typically grant broad protection to parody, and some fan art may fall into this category. This has not explicitly been adjudicated with respect to fan art, however. Moreover, while parody is typically afforded protection under the act, a court must engage in a fact-intensive, case-specific inquiry for each work.

Literary Fan Art

Hand Drawn/Digital Fan Art

All featured art has been approved for public display and has been donated by the original artist or its legal owner.