the issue essentially boils down to the question of "does a member of the public viewing body have the right to select individual artists and pieces and ridicule them, when said artists post their art to a public forum/archive?"
Question: how could the answer to this be anything *but* "yes"?
Should I be able to sue anyone who says they think something I post is crappy? Or who says anything else non-complimentary about me?
Of course not.
People have every right to post art, crappy and otherwise, for the world to see, and people also have the right to post their opinions of said art, nice or not nice.
Part of the price of putting your work on public display is that you'll be hearing from people who don't like it. If you don't want to be reviewed or critiqued... why are you posting the art publically in the first place?
the issue essentially boils down to the question of "does a member of the public viewing body have the right to select individual artists and pieces and ridicule them, when said artists post their art to a public forum/archive?"
Question: how could the answer to this be anything *but* "yes"?
Should I be able to sue anyone who says they think something I post is crappy? Or who says anything else non-complimentary about me?
Of course not.
People have every right to post art, crappy and otherwise, for the world to see, and people also have the right to post their opinions of said art, nice or not nice.
Part of the price of putting your work on public display is that you'll be hearing from people who don't like it. If you don't want to be reviewed or critiqued... why are you posting the art publically in the first place?