Interior art

[orangeandblue]

Why scan Interior art? I can understand the fanzine covers for reference and I can understand posting art which is already online. But posting interior art from zines I don't understand. Has anyone contacted the artists and gotten permission from them? Do you need to?
Why not start scanning the stories from all the older fanzines and posting them too.

Comments

[ratcreature]

I've had real trouble with that (and ranted about it in my journal). The wiki committee refused to remove the versions of my art that had been uploaded when I pointed out that I prefer to get the traffic to my art myself (and it were really large versions in some cases too, over 1000px wide), only the original art piece that had also been uploaded was deleted when I complained to the committee via email.

They didn't actually change it to different versions either (the mail said they'd make the art smaller at least), though a regular editor uploaded cropped preview thumbnails over the full pictures, which is okay with me. There can be sample of the art seen, but it is only a teaser and people then can visit my own site to see the real thing and I get the traffic and maybe even comments. But that wasn't the committee response, which just offered smaller full pictures even though I wasn't in favor of that, and actually the full art has not been deleted from the wiki either and can still be seen and accessed through the file history (like you can see in this image file on the wiki), because regular editors don't have deletion right, and the newly uploaded thumbnail is only the newest version.

Anyway the committee refused to delete, saying it was "fair use" that my art was uploaded. So in my experience, no, they won't delete just because you don't want your art archived, though I guess the versions might have been made smaller by someone official eventually.