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One of the overwhelming pieces of feedback we've had since yesterday is that people are concerned about what they can charge for different types of artwork, services and items.
To aid in clearing up that confusion a table has been added to the commissions panel knowledgebase article, which gives you the various methods of payment and if you can use it.
If there's anything you think should be added let us know, we did our best to be thorough but we may have missed a subject or two!
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Tue Apr 5, 2016 7:36pm
- pandemoniumfire
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Posted on: Tue Apr 5, 2016 11:00pm
Something that stuck out at me concerning the copyright fanart. Does the real money rule only apply if it's organised on Aywas? I assume that if someone really wants to commission someone else for fanart paying real USD all they have to do is approach them from another site or non-aywas place and it's totally fine? I only point this out because it seems a little pointless to have a rule for this (though I can understand the rule when it comes to Aywas currency).
- Belawy
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Posted on: Tue Apr 5, 2016 11:07pm
Eve (#2775)
Question. What about alternate bases for existing scc pets? Now, in this case I'm not talking alternates for pbc or sbc (which I'd just use another pbc for tbh). Let's take one of my personal species as an example. I had them made here (with gp as usd was a big no no back then) then tossed them up with scc's and voila. Now, say I'm an over-enthusiatist splurge spender and I decide I want an alternate base. I don't want to replace the old base because I still love it, but a new base is a nice break. Since they're so differently posed they absolutely need to be re-founded with two more scc's . Does it count as a new new scc at this point since the new base is sketched, based and colored from scratch? (this makes sense in my head, watch it confuse you haha @_@)
- Conium
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Posted on: Tue Apr 5, 2016 11:19pm
I too hope that because of staff admitting fault, these now clearly dubious bans get lifted.
- 🍬Arkonsel 🍬
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Posted on: Tue Apr 5, 2016 11:36pm
What about writing? Like, if someone gets commissioned to write a story about someone's pet on Aywas, does that require the commission panel to be used or not?
- (#6480)
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Posted on: Wed Apr 6, 2016 12:06am
to everyone who is asking about copyrighted fanart: I believe that the site states that you may only use 'free' options to get your art, because nothing that is art of a copyrighted product should be sold for profit anyways. So it's not a question of whether or not it should be done on the site, it's a question of whether or not it should be done at all. Not sure on the copyrighted rules of pokemon. I'm pretty sure fanmade pokemon products should not be sold at all, but people still do so.
Yeah, so it's nothing in relation to Aywas. Any art of copyrighted characters is disallowed to be sold off-site, so it's also disallowed to be sold on Aywas. Does that make sense?
- Fnord 🍬 👻 💩
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Posted on: Wed Apr 6, 2016 1:10am
^ Not actually true; look up fair use. What the actual law entails is a little unclear, but it's neither "borrow everything freely" or "zero recognizable derivative works allowed", rather somewhere in between. The issue in most cases isn't that fanworks are actually illegal, it's that in the US legal system the person with the most money for lawyers tends to win the lawsuit simply by exhausting the other side's funds, so a copyright holder, especially if it's a large corporation, can do a lot of damage to an artist who has in no way broken the law, if they decide they want to. So sites that host art and make money from it have to be careful about their liability.
- Mythic
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Posted on: Wed Apr 6, 2016 8:53am
Tequila Mockingbird (#64472)
I just wanted to comment on your slippery slope comment about Graphics. In this instance, I can only speak for myself. When creating the graphics and I am asked to use an image. I will ask the users if they have credit and permission to use these image. Credit and permission to use these images is required.
In the case of photos, if one is not provided and they ask for me to use one, I will simply go to one of the 14 websites I have listed. All 14 of the websites all every image on their site to be used for commercial projects.
I will then directly link to the image and the website I got the image from inside the coding. This way if Aywas does question an image, they have a direct link to it.
I also put in a disclaimer in my coding that I do not claim any rights to background images or additional images. Unless I did create them myself.
- Mythic
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Posted on: Wed Apr 6, 2016 8:55am
Sorry in my comment above I mean to say "allow" not "all"..
"All 14 of the websites allow every image on their site to be used for commercial projects."
- Narwhal
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Posted on: Wed Apr 6, 2016 12:13pm
Sooooo the rules were written in a way that was confusing people then?
Posted on: Tue Apr 5, 2016 10:25pm
OK, so I was planning to comission someone from here to help me design my next cross stitch pattern which was going to be a pokemon, so under this, I currently can only hope that someone wants to have a trade for my art, or is willing to do said commission for free?
just wanting to double check on this point.