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There seems to be a lot of issues with custom pets lately, especially Faux, and I just wanted to address a few things:
If you base your design on copyrighted materials it MUST be submitted to the Copyright Forum.
The forum is here, the rules are here, and a quick FAQ is here.
If your pet is found to violate copyright rules it will be removed, and those complicit in it's creation will be punished.
This means if you asked for a copyrighted design, and the artist gave it to you, you are both in trouble.
If you did not know your pet was a copyright issue (and you did not ask it to be based on something copyrighted) then you will not be in trouble - only the artist will be.
No user can demand another user give them a Faux they have claimed.
I have been very alarmed to hear that some artists have been demanding that users "give back" a design they have claimed because they wanted it for themselves. This is not allowed, and directly violates the Terms of Service of this website. Anyone who is reported for such behaviour will be swiftly punished.
Custom Pets cannot have backgrounds.
This means things such as scenery or imagery that is not directly tied to the pet - such as skies and landscape.
If you think you have a pet that is a copyright risk, please PM me as soon as possible so we can arrange how to address the problem. Users who do so are not at risk of losing their pet if it can be altered sufficiently, or their custom item if it cannot be.
If you have seen a pet that you believe to be a copyright risk, please PM me. Your report will be confidential.
Thank you everyone and I hope you all have a good week =)
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:12pm
- shinycakes
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:27pm
Schu (#223) Yeah, OC's are fine!
Copyrighted is bad, because money is exchanged on here, and that goes against some copyright stuff.
- shinycakes
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:27pm
Pirate & Kazna (#233) rip i always read numbers wrong please forgive me random user
- Eve
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:34pm
Yoga Pants (#55178) - Fanart is technically illegal. For the most part the companies turn a blind eye because it can generate more interest in their product, but as soon as people make money from it (as arguably Aywas can with custom making and breeding items) then it increases the likelihood that you will fall into legal trouble, in which we would not have a leg to stand on.
InvertSilhouette (#51851) - Personal original characters are not an issue at all.
Ghost and Jazz (#209) - Not a problem at all! Hopefully between us we've made sense (your English thing and my 4am thing *chuckles*).
Pirate & Kazna (#233) - It's a case of when you join Aywas you agree to the ToS etc etc, so if you submit something and then go "NO I CHANGED MY MIND" and try to sue us you really don't have a leg to stand on because you've already given us the permission. Someone who is not a member of the site has agreed to nothing, and it puts us in a very dangerous position.
- InvertSilhouette
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:03pm
Good to know, thank you. c: (I had a feeling that was the case, but just wanted to be sure!)
- Moved to 1599
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:16pm
This is pretty tough, both the follow through on checking the faux, since there are already so many for copyright issues is quite the challange. But on the flip side it is nice to see that the rights of the artists and the players are both being well protected.
- Frog
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Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:47pm
Eveglori (#2775) So posting a drawing to deviantart is seen as harmless fan appreciation which won't be used for profit. While Aywas pays the artists to create the art so it's basically buying/selling the Copyrighted likeness?
- Guitarlos
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Posted on: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:05am
What about artists who make something up based on their own ideas but the site deems it against copyright of something the artist has never heard of? It would be completely unfair to punish the artist in such a case because its impossible for them to know about every TV show, movie, book, etc. - Azi
- Rune Cat
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Posted on: Mon Aug 24, 2015 1:19am
I thought I'd ask since you're lurking here Eve, how caught up is your team on recent checks? IIRC there's usually a 1-3 month wait right?
- Rat
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Posted on: Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:49am
#6879 If something's generic enough that you could draw it by mistake, it's not gonna be a problem. There are probably going to be versions of it everywhere.
As an example , I follow the artist "Skulldog", and she has an OC who is a dog with a skull for a hear, and a big ruff of neck fur. Now I've seen multiple people draw the same thing, recently there was a faux like that submitted, but it's just people having the same idea, and no one could reasonably say "they're using her character".
Posted on: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:23pm
I remember Slash saying that the site only had the rights to the specific piece of art not the character it portrated so you can make your ocs on here without threat?