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>>38708716
Please help our culture.

>>38708654
Calling drawing a picture of another picture plagiarism is like calling taking a picture of a picture plagiarism.

>>38708845
He processes photographs that are for sale or prohibited for reproduction and sells them as his own original works in his solo exhibitions.
This is not imitation or reference, it is plagiarism.

At least his shit looks like actual art
Our government art is shit like this, it's garbage
>>38708845
There's only one here that's actual plagiarism. imo if the drawn version is derivative enough from the source like most of these pics it's fine. Otherwise it's like getting assmad at photorealistic drawn art
Japanese art communities will shit on you for even using references or finding inspiration elsewhere

>>38708916
In Japan, this act is not tolerated.
Goods using his illustrations have been suspended one after another.
He has also been suspected of falsifying his gender and having girls send him photos.
But the Japanese media is not reporting on him.
But the Japanese media is not reporting on him because they have media people as fixers.
I'm angry.

>>38708971
Many people here respect Japanese culture, but Westerners are in general more relaxed about copyright and plagiarism than the Japanese.

>>38708916
did they get mad when 07 umineko stole every character design from some irl goth magazine?

>>38709021
Thank you. I know, too, that copying and respect made art.
But this artist shows 400 pieces a year and most of them are made by plagiarism.
In Japan, plagiarism is discovered every day.
I've never seen an artist this bad.

This artist has abandoned Japan and is trying to work in China.
Of course, the works exhibited in China as originals are plagiarized.
But it is very difficult to post on Chinese forums from Japan.
That's why I posted the thread here.

>>38709108
Nothing you can do about chicoms. Their entire economy is plagiarized.

>>38709101
This artist has painted the key visuals for the NFT art event of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (a Japanese government agency).
Of course, there are allegations of plagiarism in that too.

https://w.atwiki.jp/cotohmatome/pages/14.html

It's the worst scandal in Japanese creative history. The uproar so far is incomparable.

>>38709149
so loic him or whatever

>>38709197
It's hard.

>>38709131
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>>>38709108 (You)
>Nothing you can do about chicoms. Their entire economy is plagiarized.

COTOH's plagiarism is slowly becoming a hot topic in China as well.
I'd like to provide more information about it.

>>38709271
Unless the CCP or MSS give a fuck he can keeping peddling whatever garbage he has.

>>38709334
As for me, I'd like to see more media outlets outside of Japan make news somehow.
He's about to leave Japan.
I'm wondering if there's a better way.

>>38709366
Just make a bot to seed accounts to google bomb his name in various languages. He only has a handful of English google returns.

>>38709271
Thank you.
I have no idea what they think of him overseas, or in Japan.

>>38709387
It seems to work.
I'll suggest it to the Japanese.

Some people are talking about it on Baidu.
But it hasn't spread yet.
It seems that some people were disappointed to find out after seeing the exhibit that it was plagiarized.

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7714606888?red_tag=3421652187

Is this the same guy who changed name 3-4 times because people always called him out in the comments for tracing other drawings/photos? I remember something like this trending on twitter a bunch of years ago but I don't know if it's the same artist

>>38709512
Maybe it's a different artist.

He started painting five years ago, and as far as I can tell from his records, he's kept the same name.
He's been accused of plagiarism a few times, but he's been able to cover it up by deleting his work and blocking the people who reported him.

>>38709536
lol

He used to publish 400 paintings a year, most of which were plagiarized or copied.
Even the ones claiming to be completely original are no exception.
The verification process has been going on for about a month on 2ch in Japan, but even now several plagiarized pictures are discovered every day.
You should take a look and see how many of them there are.

https://w.atwiki.jp/cotohmatome/pages/10.html

>>38709536
Ah nevermind confused him with Kr0npr1nz

>>38709600
Very suspiciously, Cotoh and Kr0npr1nz (Ilya Kuvshinov) are friends.
Some Japanese people were saddened to know that Ilya's copy was used in this case.

https://twitter.com/cotoh_tsumi/status/1439485054950916102

He had also collaborated with Pokémon Inc. but Pokémon took the uproar seriously and withdrew the collaboration goods and returned them for a refund.

https://w.atwiki.jp/cotohmatome/pages/14.html#id_3f7499e4

>>38709366
Not really unless the people holding the copyright actively seek to press charges for plagiarism.

>>38708654
the best way to do this is inquire the original creators and inform that their art / creations are being plagiarized. Surely with Japan's copyright mumbo jumbo at least most of them would be willing to sue that swindler's ass

It looks like he's actually making art and is pretty good at it.
That's like calling a chef plagiarizing for making Fried Rice.

>>38712686
i don't honestly know what's OP's deal.
who knows, these might just be practice or even sample art. One of the reasons why japanese artists on twitter at times delete their works after some time is that they're mostly derivative works. Well if it's habitually done then that's already a different case and it can also be considered overt plagiarism. Even one of the "plagiarized" art is the artist's actual twitter header.

>>38712655
Thanks for the response.
This artist plagiarized from the work of the president of a Japanese photographer's association.
Some of the companies and rights holders have responded.
I am very worried that the Agency for Cultural Affairs will remain silent.

>>38712711
Thanks for the response.
He is only an "artist" and has almost no secondary works.

He also claims that he never plagiarizes anything he draws on commission, that it's all original, when in fact his commercial works are full of plagiarism.
As an illustrator myself, I find this very annoying.

>>38721985
Do you have a site where you post your illustrations?

>>38723244
No, it's not.
I don't publish them because I only make commercial works.

>>38723525
Are these works private or is there an example you can show by linking to wherever the art is used for? or at least, what sort of illustrations do you do?

How did you guys find out he was plagiarizing?

I mean, looking at the OP pic, the Leon the Professional one (left column, first one) is easily identified as a inspiration/photoreference since it's a very well known movie but the Life is Strange one (middle column second one) seems like a real stretch.

The others are obvious when compared with the photoreference but how did you guys even find these in the first place?

>>38708654
Absolutely off-topic thread for this board and also NYPA.

'member when people enjoyed this kind thing instead of hating on it?

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>>38708654
Hey BeatOldTower, I have a question for you.

What is wrong with the Japanese artists' attitude toward their artwork? Japanese artist don't seem understand how the internet works, or how international borders work. It's not 1995 anymore, friend. Once you post your art online, it's online FOREVER. People will copy it. People will edit it. People will make derivative works based on your work. And they'll do all of that outside of Japan where your country's laws have no sway.

So many Japan creators do stupid nonsense like IP restricting to only Japanese IP addresses, or adding some stupid Japanese-only "security question" to their shitty 1990s era HTML homepage, or banning non-Japanese comments. It's 2022 lol, everyone has VPNs and Google translate now. Whenever I find Japanese content that has been "locked" like this, I try to copy it and share it outside of Japan as much as possible. This "secret club" attitude, this "this is my artwork! DO NOT STEAL!" attitude is pathetic. If you're not emotionally mature enough to handle other people copying your art online, don't fucking post it online. If you can't handle people outside Japan looking at or "stealing" you art (lol!) don't fucking post it online. Welcome to the year 2000. I hope this artist does very well at his exhibition.

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>>38708654
I don't see what's wrong with your picture. Why do you think this shouldn't be allowed?

>>38708654
>Please help us
で、ここで呟くだけでどうするつもり？ここにいる人は何もできないし、そもそも何が問題なのかすら分かってないし。普通にツイッターとかで炎上させれば？

>>38729594
Based

>>38729747
Thanks for posting all of these. Really nostalgic...
>>38729594
It's a phenomena that isn't exclusive to the Japanese at least, they're just the worst offenders of it. Besides furries and adoptables, I guess.
It's like applying a modern art gallery mindset to everything that they do. Even in the olden days there were workshops where many artists did derivative versions of the same painting, paying homage to one another, picking up techniques, etc etc

>>38730357
俺は海外の人にも知ってほしいだけ。さんざん天才アーティストだのなんだのと持ち上げたくせに日本のメディアはあまりにもこの件を取り上げないので腹が立っているよ。あとTwitterでは既に炎上してるね。未だに本人はだんまりだけど

>>38729594
There is no doubt that the evolution of Internet security and data sharing in Japan is lagging behind the rest of the world.
However, I can't agree with all of it, because a manga artist I know was upset about unauthorized reproduction.

But I guess that's because he has respect for the work he's referring to.
This guy, after selling his plagiarized work as completely original, even said, "It's easy to draw something like this. That's an insult to the original work.
Are you the one who has been writing for 20 years? It's the year 2022 in Japan where this problem is happening.

>>38738201
>本人はだんまり
ツイッターではもう謝罪しているようだけど

>>38738275
たしかに謝罪文をアップしたけど、「クライアントワークスは全てオリジナル作品」と言っておきながら商業作品にもトレースで作られたものが存在していることがわかったので誰も信用していない。
活動場所をInstagramに移すと言ってるけど向こうには謝罪文を上げていないので不誠実だとも言われている。
関係企業に「ネット上の情報に惑わされないでください」とメールを送っているとも言われている。
総合して、あれを「謝罪」と受け取っている日本人はいない状態。

>>38709149
Why would you expect integrity from an NFT artist? LOL

So it's Ilya Kuvshinov but people actually took the matter seriously instead of just going "lol u fags are just mad he's making dosh"?

>>38709600
He just made it his style

>>38741281
This is not an nft artist.
I think the future of nft in Japan has been decided when they put this bastard as a key jewel.

>>38741606
Nowadays, Japanese otaku are very sensitive to such cheaters. Many of them are really angry like me.
Japan is very tired of the theft of culture, both domestic and international.