There's a number of artists who have asked to have their art taken down from Danbooru, but still produce official artwork for various products. As far as I know, official artwork is rarely, if ever, denied non-commercial redistribution.

Shouldn't there be a provision to allow users to see official art, even if the artist's banned?

The top example here is Parsley (paseri here in danbooru), who releases artwork for Girls Frontline and Kantai Collection yet explicitly promotional pictures are still blocked from viewed just from the transitive result of being properly artist-tagged.

Previous discussion topic #16213

Danbooru respects artists' requests for removal of their artwork, at least in theory. We'd be doing a pretty lousy job of honoring that assurance to artists if we made an exception for images belonging to another copyright holder.

iridescent_slime said:

Danbooru respects artists' requests for removal of their artwork, at least in theory. We'd be doing a pretty lousy job of honoring that assurance to artists if we made an exception for images belonging to another copyright holder.

Doesn't *COPY*right holder imply that only holder of this right have a say in what you can COPY (and put on danbooru)?

rowaasr13 said:

Doesn't *COPY*right holder imply that only holder of this right have a say in what you can COPY (and put on danbooru)?

Come back when you find a copyright holder who has specifically requested the art of an otherwise banned artist to be allowed to be hosted on Danbooru. Then (and only then) you'll have a point.

When an artist requests a takedown I have to assume it applies to all of their works. If anything, we need to be even more careful when an actual company is involved. There have been cases of sites getting into trouble over things like datamined official art being leaked early. We also have some artbook and calender scans by Paseri that are tagged official art but that definitely aren't freely available. Just because something is official doesn't necessarily mean the company won't care.

I'd might as well step in to give my say on this matter:

I'm actually in favor of the tag override since this would allow those artists (like myself) making fanarts of existing copyrights to have an easier time getting their reference material, especially if it's high resolution. To take the existing issue with Parsley as an example, the artist's done full-body character designs across GFL and KC and with those not available here due to the artist tag (which, unfortunately, brings the "banned artist" tag with it), we've had to seek other sources that would generally turn up lower-resolution versions of said chara designs.

While I understand that DB has nominal and theoretical obligation to abide to an artist if he/she doesn't want their works here, works done under an official commission/request/agreement would might as well be granted exemption also for the sake of other artists who make fanart.

It might also be stemming from a dissatisfaction with the whole ban system per se, to which I've sent an email to the site admin expressing such, among others. But I must digress, this paradox of official art and the status of one who made it being "banned"/hidden on the site to avoid legal issues is one many of us as fanartists have to confront.