Re: Injustice Unlimited
Short version WB can't stop a private file ending up being 'Stolen' and distributed by some Savvy 'hacker' somewhere in a basement who may have distributed via a proxy email address to a bunch of people who may have just by coincidence donated to your art on a regular basis on patreon. I mean, these things could happen that are completely out of your control right?
No, they can't stop it, this is true.
But they can certainly hold SR7 responsible.
Many cases legally have came out where person A had their friends use something or do something involving their content that they literally had no idea it was going on, and they only found out months later when they were getting sued for negligence or allowing the content out into the world to begin with.
If I leave a gun on the counter, and someone breaks into my house and steals my gun, and then goes on a shooting spree with it, guess who gets charged as an accessory to murder? I do.
In this case though, SR7 would be the person who would be leaving his house and handing his gun to someone else, and then, after that person has killed a few others, gives them a stern warning not to kill anyone else.
It's a perfectly viable comparison if you're understanding what I'm saying the root of the cause for concerns of any company is competition and things they feel will hurt their margins.
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Please, PLEASE read my previous posts. It's really, really clear you're not reading anything I'm posting at all.
I addressed parodies like this and how they get away with them and why hentai doesn't apply for them in the previous posts.
If I just happened to have the skills to draw like SR7 I fail to see how someone could sue me for drawing a girl with black hair, wearing shiny metal with blue and red bikinis, did they invent blue bikinis or something?
Yes, actually, if they look like the character, and especially if they have been previously established as being that character (this is the big one), then they CAN sue you and win.
This has happened numerous times throughout the history of copyright law where someone did "something similar" without even referencing the original, got sued, lost.
Free artistic expression is a protected form
No. It really, honestly isn't anymore in this country. Google "free artistic expression sued".
There's all kinds of different approaches to law that could deem something valid or not.
True. The problem is, WB has a team of lawyers that will crush any opposition to them unless it is a closed-and-shut case on your behalf, and this is a closed-and-shut case on THEIR behalf.
I'm pretty sure for every instance you provide something that has been lawfully shot down I can provide an instance where something hasn't.
And I'm sure you can, but that doesn't mean this case has some way to win it.
I did stop reading after I got the feeling you're so set in one frame of thinking (most likely due to your brush with your game) that you're just going to discourage other options.
I haven't had any brushes with a company giving me a DMCA or legal issues? I'm in this frame of mind because I've had to study and research intellectual copyright law for years due to my work prior to hentai games.
I'm not an expert on it or practicing law or anything like that, but I've got a fair chunk of knowledge about it, which is why I'm advising as such, considering the wide amount of incorrect legal advice being thrown around this thread.
That said, SR7, if you're serious about wanting to continue this, then completely ignore EVERYTHING in this thread (including my posts) and immediately get yourself a lawyer.
I'm fairly sure they'll advise you what I'm saying (which is basically don't continue with it anywhere close to its existing form) but that is by far and above the best choice to do things; anything else is a risk legally, financially, and creatively.
