another one bites the dust

etsy has taken down another one of my posters. i totally get it - i am using someone else's copyrighted material to make them - but it sucks! the other one that they took down didn't bother me too much because it was taylor swift and i don't like her anyway (it really only bothered me because it was the least copyrighted lyrical poster that i've ever made - only about 10 lines on the poster contain taylor's music. the rest is romeo and juliet by william shakespeare).

this one bothers me though because it's melanie martinez. this one i did because i'm a big fan. i had so much fun making this poster and everyone who's seen it is so excited - because they're big fans too! i wish there was some way of me getting permission from the record labels to sell these posters. it's not like i'm selling that many - i'm definitely not taking business away from them. at least not any moreso than a lyrics website. how do they get away with it? is it because they're not charging for it?

i don't know, but melanie was only on etsy for about a week before she was unceremoniously booted. in that time she had one sale and over 30 favorites. and people at dragcon freaked out over her poster. dang. this one stings.

as you can see in the screenshot above - in the last week she's my most searched and most active poster by a lot!