to add to this: apparently there’s more evidence from TianYanCha (gov platform with data on Chinese companies' intellectual property holdings) suggesting that tracing is chronologically impossible: hoyo’s last 2023 copyright registration for lightcone art was on 8.4.23, the disputed fanart was published later, on 8.19.23. legally, there’s no ground for the artist to sue as the final victor was probably among those lc finalized & submitted for intellectual property protection before the fanart was published

RT @HDaunting: @nvptunis An interesting titbit, once again credit to the group of people on xhs, here's the artist attitude toward this sit…

thanks to everyone for reading this(feel free to repost/spread this info.) However, please don’t attack anyone or spread negativity. its natural for ppl to feel upset over the possibility that their fav lightcone art was plagiarized (myself included!). hopefully, this post reassures everyone & lets us all continue appreciating this beautiful masterpiece

@nvptunis one more: 5) (from xiaohongshu) the code on aventurine’s neck in the lc was from one of his older design that was leaked even earlier, in april 23, whereas the artist’s art was posted aug 23 (old vs current)

@nvptunis Of course ❤️