Question about posters...

[kestrad.livejournal.com]

So I was browsing Amazon for a new Hetalia poster when I noticed that there was one seller called ScrollDepot (orders fulfilled by some company called NiceTouchDVDs) that had tapestry versions of the Allies and Axis in uniform from the Arte Stella artbook. At first I was excited, but then I noticed the images looked kind of oddly sized--like they'd been stretched or something to accommodate the tapestry's size. Then I noticed that one of the Hetalia posters they were selling contained a drawing I had definitely seen on a fanart site. I then plugged in "ScrollDepot Hetalia" into the search bar and found that they had like 20 pages of tapestries with art styles all over the place, and a bunch looked like they were resized and forced to fit on that tapestry size.

So this sent off like a million alarm bells in my head, but a preliminary search didn't turn up anything of interest at all about this seller, and I would have thought that if they were actually profiting off of fanart and unauthorized distribution of official art it would have raised a big stink earlier. Does anyone know more about this?

Comments

[osoroshia.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of the seller, but I can confirm there aren't any official tapestries of the full World 8 in Himaruya's art.

There are, of course, these three (http://hetaliaitemguide.wikinet.org/w/images/hetaliaitemguide/uploads/6/66/Anikuji3.png) that do use Arte Stella specifically, but. It sounds like you're describing something different?


It's ridiculously common for people to sell wallscrolls (and pillows) with absolutely any art they can possibly find, so it's most likely you've just stumbled across one of them.
If you're not turning up any warnings about them, it probably just means they ship the items quickly and they don't arrive broken. Sadly the internet's really not full of people who know or care what unlicensed items are. D: