#riwics

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oh yeah that awful riwic creator, truly the essence of evil. how could they make splatoon themed riwics for funsies and have the audacity to give them away for free even when people around them did the same thing except they profited and no one cared. lets not forget about the callie and marie pacas that were sold for money and didnt get shit for it. (not saying to attack the paca creator, there is nothing wrong with the designs and there was nothing wrong with the riwics)

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I have some things to say about this riwic drama. Saying "i gave x away for free so it's okay" doesn't excuse the fact that you did something tacky?? By that logic, someone giving you free bootleg items is okay just cause "it's free so company dun care!1" oh my god

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I love how rRamune edited the description on those copy pasted splatoon adopts saying "transformative fair use" as if that's an excuse..Just admit that you just copied characters and put them on a base already than cry "transformative fair use" uwu"

:O I love how they only listen to the anons who say it’s ok.I think they should look at this: https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse:)

Edit: mainly the “The “Fifth Factor” - Transformative Use” part since their work isn’t that :)

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Oops. Totally meant "derivative work" not "distributive work." The gist of everything is that you should be giving more than you take (in this case, adding something to the original work instead of just using it for your own profit). Think about how you, personally, would feel if someone else did the same thing to you. Gotta Golden Rule it up in here, y'all.

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@Rrramune I think the problem here is that you seem to mistake copying with being inspired. People will generally be alright with inspired adopts (and the selling of) when there's creativity applied and the inspo doesn't go past a certain limit. When what you're doing is directly slapping a copyrighted character on a species design - like the Splatoon riwics - whether or not you're selling 'em or gifting 'em won't matter because it's still copying almost 100%, no creativity applied.

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well then i guess we need to stop plant ponies and any pokemon adoptables. but not really because as the other anon pointed out, those things, and my riwics, fall under transformative fair use.

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part 2: you also didnt answer my question of, is it illegal to give fanart away for free. by the logic of selling fanart being illegal, and my riwics being illegal even though they were free, is it illegal to give fanart away for free?

I’ll answer this later.

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i didnt say anything about taking inspiration from species, and if i wasnt okay with that id be a hypocrite. my species was inspired by scarfoxes, and if someone took inspiration from my species i wouldnt care. i dont own big hands and little feet. nintendo doesnt care either, they dont have a problem with people selling merch at cons. the only problems were when people were making their own spinoff games. i gave away designs based on the squid sisters and nintendo doesnt care.

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