I probably come a little late on this "debate", not being so active lately ... We were asked on the French channel to give our opinion and I decided to come and share with you my personal opinion which is not necessarily that of the entire French community. So I speak in my own name, but also as a french curator: fr and francostem (french part of steemstem community). So, sorry if my english is not perfect, since this is not my first langage.

I was reviewing the posts published by Hive account@akarantain and I took the time to read all the opinions given here to weigh the "pros" and "cons ", especially from other artists.

As steemstem / francostem curator, plagiarism is something that I know well and that usually makes me angry. We do not take this lightly at all, and I think it is important to raise the debate.

When I read a post and I find notions of plagiarism, it is a little "easy" since it is "copy-pasted": the author has made no effort of personal writing, he appropriates falsely the work of someone else.

In another hand, when it comes to art, we are talking about a completely different subject.

Several months ago, we blacklisted an artist because he literally published the productions of other authors as if it was his own. There, it was a real case of plagiarism that the author recognized. He also wrote an article explaining the why of how and also apologized to the community.

There was no original production coming from him, he only posted pictures of other people as if it was his own work.

In the case of Hive account@akarantain, she copies images she found on the net, but she publishes her own reproduction of the original work. It details each step, explains the processes it used, etc. It's her own work of reproduction that she present us.

In this, the content can be considered as original and not as plagiarism. Especially since in art, the copy of existing work is considered as a process of learning necessary to the acquisition of techniques of drawings.

This type of "copy" can not be considered, in my opinion, as plagiarism.

If you really want to stay in the norms that have been enacted, it would be good to simply ask the author to quote his source of inspiration. Yet, it may cause some problems to all artists since many of their creation can come from… everything!

So, in my opinion, she doesn’t only take the creation of somebody else : she is doing her own production from it. As I said, maybe it would be better to give a link to the original picture, but there… I am not in the art community and I think they must be the ones who put their own rules about that…