Regarding furry paysite content
Watermarked Images
Watermarked images from commercial sites or that were added by a third-party are forbidden. Watermarks placed by the artist are permitted.
Watermarked images from commercial sites or that were added by a third-party are forbidden. Watermarks placed by the artist are permitted.
I'm considering a manip but this rule is in my way.
There's this curious tacit agreement in the furry community that paysite content that is at least 2 years old is okay to post anywhere unless the site specifically requests to be DNP. Furry paysites are completely aware of this convention and go along with it; it's quite well-known, and any paysites that are silent on the matter are probably just covering their asses in case they need to enforce their intellectual property at some future date.
These images often have "Do not repost" or "Do not distribute" off in the corner, and I would normally leave it there because I'm not going to bother taking out any kind of existing watermarks mostly out of principle. So naturally if I manipped such an image and then uploaded it here one day, it would raise a red flag, because, hey this says do not distribute. If I edited it out and someone followed the source link to e.g. the furry booru and saw the original with the "do not distribute" watermark then things would seem really shady.
Another issue is that the *blush sites recently went free because apparently Patreon pays better than subscriptions; these sites still have an archive of "Do not repost" images even though they're now freely available.
I'm asking for official consent to treat furry images on this booru the same way that they're treated on other sites: That even paysite content with "do not repost" in the image be allowed if over 2 years old and not from a site known for requesting to be DNP on furry sites - being DNP on e621 is probably a sufficient metric.
More generally if there's a "do not repost" watermark that is known to no longer be applicable by the consent of the copyright holder (as with the *blush sites, which now allow unlimited redistribution if the Patreon link is provided), there should be a clause in the rules that allow such an image.