Last month I made a journal (this one - https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9984671/) about how one of my Lion King pics was removed by FA after the person I did the trade with didn't want their character on the internet anymore, (and even though I changed the colours and removed all mentions of them in the description) they ended up reporting the pic instead.
So I decided to try contact FA about it, and a month later, they responded with this...

https://ibb.co/Ss9mgyL

(Here's a quote from it)
" While you may have traded for the artwork; the artist is the copyright holder of the artwork created. This does not include the characters in the work, but the artwork itself. Unless they specifically stated that they have sold or given you copyright of the artworks, they may request removal from our site. "

So apparently the person I did the trade is the copyright owner of the image I made, and it's NOT because I used their character...

But the person I did the trade with, didn't even make the pic, I did!! All I did was include their character!!
And yes, I know I don't own any actual copyrights for Lion King or the characters used or anything, but the fact that now this person (who's already deleted their FA account) apparently is the one who has control over the image, despite not being the one who actually made it.
I'm not even that bothered that I can't reupload the image. I'm just more annoyed that it got removed for such a stupid reason.


I really don't know what to say about this.
This whole thing has made me REALLY have doubts on doing trades with other people again (outside of people I trust, people I regularly trade with, etc...).