Danbooru

A new tag for images based on real people?

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So the uploading guidelines say that the copyrights from which a character comes from must be identified. We have original as a "copyright" for original characters, but what of real people? Must every post that has a character tag have a copyright tag? Would a real life "copyright" tag be a good idea?

Updated by Log

Log said:

Do we lump gods such as Anubis under this as well?

Please don't add mythology into it, that just bastardizes the tag.

Filled it out a little, didn't totally check around 1/4 of the images and couldn't decide if seiyuu connection posts qualified for the tag.

If the seiyuu doesn't physically appear in the image, I would say it doesn't count.

Log said:

All but 312 of the real life insert tag are artist self-inserts.

Completely wrong. Most pictures of pool #2420 contain multiple real life inserts and only one artist self insert each. I checked the last 3 pictures, those have 3 additional real life inserts each. That pool alone are about 900 pictures.

Even if these images do qualify, which I'm not saying they do, bach and hitler or even seiyuu should not fall under the same umbrella as a mangaka in kogasa of which we do not know the actual appearance. IMO the two tags are not the same thing.

Please allow some separation so that we do not mix up actual depictions of people with artists' drawing of a panda or a touhou that they say is representative of their friend or some guy at a printing company.

jjj14 said:

Please allow some separation so that we do not mix up actual depictions of people with artists' drawing of a panda or a touhou that they say is representative of their friend or some guy at a printing company.

We already have something like that, fictional_persona. Right now it's supposed to be used for artist self-inserts, but nothing really hinders us from using it for other inserts as well.

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