I couldn't find this answer in your blog so I hope this is okay to ask. How do you feel about artists selling fanart and merch of TMA? I saw somewhere that this show was copyrighted, but I know they're a lot of artists in this fandom who make a lot of cool art and with many different character designs. And if it is copyrighted and no one should sell anything related to tma, is there a specific design that is copyrighted, or just anything that draws inspiration from the show?

Hey so I get this question a LOT and so will give an answer here but it will be the same as previous.

1) Questions like this should be addressed to mail@rustyquill.com as they will give better answers. My socials are NOT official company anything.

2) Our Podcasts are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International license which means People can duplicate, modify copies, sample it and generate fanworks on condition that:
a) NO money changes hands. A lot of people interpret this to mean they can’t make profit but it actually means money isn’t allowed to be involved in anyway, even to cover costs. (it’s just too easy to exploit loopholes if that isn’t the case)
b) Anything based on our work must ALSO be shared with the same licensing.
c) Full credit needs to be given to the original work including links on where to find it etc.
d) People do not claim we endorse their work

3) We can choose to allow certain extra stuff on a case-by-case e.g. we have granted certain permissions for charity or educational use etc.

In my experience our fandom is pretty respectful (and creative!) but there are a few known bad actors who keep trying to flood online stores with copycat merch and spam duplicate Youtube and podcast content for a quick buck.

To be clear though this is a personal social media channel not a business correspondence so this post is NOT an official edict or anything.

TLDR:
As a gross over simplification, if the fanwork is distributed with the same licensing, with no money exchange and the original content is credited properly, it’s fine. Otherwise they are open to legal consequences.

As always just consume responsibly I guess and any questions on this stuff are better sent to mail@rustyquill.com