Exedrus
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Err, I'm pretty sure it's a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be.
On one hand, most artist are probably gratuitously violating Hasbro's copyrights and/or trademarks through their works, which probably puts their rights to the copywritten material in question.
On the other hand, reproducing an artistic work doesn't guarantee that it is a violation. Just ask Google or any image searching site, they regularly serve and reproduce full size copies of images they index. As I understand it, so long that a site allows a means for artists to have their content removed (and probably some other stuff), they're legally fine. I believe this is covered in the "Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act, if you want to read up.
Err, I'm pretty sure it's a lot more complicated than you're making it out to be.
On one hand, most artist are probably gratuitously violating Hasbro's copyrights and/or trademarks through their works, which probably puts their rights to the copywritten material in question.
On the other hand, reproducing an artistic work doesn't guarantee that it is a violation. Just ask Google or any image searching site, they regularly serve and reproduce full size copies of images they index. As I understand it, so long that a site allows a means for artists to have their content removed (and probably some other stuff), they're legally fine. I believe this is covered in the "Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act, if you want to read up.