User blog comment:ChishioKunrin/How would you react if someone sold traced RWBY art?/@comment-25555436-20150421005627

So, you mean if someone took a pic of Ruby standing on the cliff in ep8, and then used photoshop to make a whole new, mostly original pic using it?

I see nothing wrong with it. You are using something to make something more unique. Sure, you could say "It's stealing Live!", which is arguable. But would you care, if the result is still fantastic, or even extraordinary?

Plus, in this case it's not like Hasbro got their stuff taken. Steal: to take something that isn't yours by right. In a sense, those artists you mention did steal...except, they didn't take anything. Copy-pasting some things, yes, but not taking, as that would mean Hasbro lost those things. It's not really stealing if someone made a new sword from your sword without you ever losing your sword.

Personally, I wouldn't mind about the means, only about the end. If RT responds negatively, let them respond, but all I'll care is if these screenshots are used to make something good, if not better than good.

Then again, here at Venezuela no one gives 3 shits about copyright, and even less shit about stealing stuff, and it's been like that all my life so I just got used to it.