I don’t think anyone’s ever been upset at being in the background , but there have been cases of people trying to get upskirts or taking creep shots. I think that’s more what its about.
Even more than that, if you’ve put a significant amount of your time, energy, money and even identity into a creation, you want for the photos people take (and potentially share) of it to be ones where you have some degree of control over how it looks.
Maybe you cut a few corners on the side of a piece and only want to show it from the front, or maybe the makeup only really “works” if you’re making the right expression, that kind of thing. It’s a professional courtesy to allow cosplayers at a convention to choose how they pose, rather than unilaterally collect them without permission like a Pokemon.
Yeah I think that (besides creeps) is the best explanation. Cosplay is a form of art so the “creator” should have some artistic control over it. Otherwise I’d argue “well if you get up on a stage to shine, you’re giving implicit consent”. But one can’t be constantly “on stage”.
I don’t think anyone’s ever been upset at being in the background , but there have been cases of people trying to get upskirts or taking creep shots. I think that’s more what its about.
Even more than that, if you’ve put a significant amount of your time, energy, money and even identity into a creation, you want for the photos people take (and potentially share) of it to be ones where you have some degree of control over how it looks.
Maybe you cut a few corners on the side of a piece and only want to show it from the front, or maybe the makeup only really “works” if you’re making the right expression, that kind of thing. It’s a professional courtesy to allow cosplayers at a convention to choose how they pose, rather than unilaterally collect them without permission like a Pokemon.
Yeah I think that (besides creeps) is the best explanation. Cosplay is a form of art so the “creator” should have some artistic control over it. Otherwise I’d argue “well if you get up on a stage to shine, you’re giving implicit consent”. But one can’t be constantly “on stage”.