Back in the 1990s, one of the furry image boards banned Sonic the Hedgehog fan art. The Web was still young, the big corporations hadn't yet learned to embrace their online fanbase, and no one in the fandom had what it took to fight off lawyers. The same concern hit another image board a few years later with Pokemon and Digimon art. The fandom's solution to this was to draw in the same artstyle, but to create original characters - Pokemorphs and Digimorphs.
Back in the 1990s, one of the furry image boards banned Sonic the Hedgehog fan art. The Web was still young, the big corporations hadn't yet learned to embrace their online fanbase, and no one in the fandom had what it took to fight off lawyers. The same concern hit another image board a few years later with Pokemon and Digimon art. The fandom's solution to this was to draw in the same artstyle, but to create original characters - Pokemorphs and Digimorphs.