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Tracing IS legal. Sort of. by nokari, journal

Tracing IS legal. Sort of.

Feb 5, 2009

Don't get your panties in a knot. We all hear the tooting of angry horns around here about the recent "defining" of traced artwork on dA. Some of you reading this right now are probably groaning in your chair about how much this is "blasphemy" and "contradictory to the spirit of artwork and community" and blah blah blah. fourteenthstar (https://www.deviantart.com/fourteenthstar) mentioned that they have a lawyer. A very good lawyer. And that this lawyer had gone over, in depth, the issue of tracing and told them that it was perfectly legal for users to upload traced artwork to dA. So I did some sleuthing of my own on copyright laws, their protections, and violations to find out what was