I'd email hot topic some of your designs. Do you have a link for them for sale? I think I may have some friends who would be interested in a few of them
I'd email hot topic some of your designs. Do you have a link for them for sale? I think I may have some friends who would be interested in a few of them
Riot would have to approve any and all of that. If they can shut down people selling handmade plushies, they can prevent people from selling tshirt designs.
Riot would have to approve any and all of that. If they can shut down people selling handmade plushies, they can prevent people from selling tshirt designs.
I wasn't aware these were LoL characters and thought they were random designs (had to google riot) lol
If you're legally able to sell T-Shirts like that, I'd love to request a Spirit Guard Udyr one. I've been wanting to buy a Spirit Guard Udyr shirt, but I haven't seen any good ones.
Riot would have to approve any and all of that. If they can shut down people selling handmade plushies, they can prevent people from selling tshirt designs.
I have a friend that keeps in contact with Riot Games Latin, we'll see what happens. Get some kind of permission or something.
I'm not to sure about the legality of making fan art merchandise, since I'm not using official art or names, wouldn't this fall into Fair Use?
Difficult to say and probably well over my head to know how to answer that one correctly. You are using their likeness, but are not using names.
I know that the team behind "League of Fighters" had to get explicit approval to even continue making their free game.
This is their footer
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League of Fighters is a fan made game with no profit intended. The development team are all unpaid volunteers, and don’t receive any economic profit from it. League of Fighters isn’t endorsed by Riot Games and doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing League of Legends. League of Legends and Riot Games are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc. League of Legends
Those are actually completely fair game! To use Homestuck as an example, if you have made a fan kid or fan troll, or invented your own Land of ___ and ___, or composed a piece of music that was inspired by the comic, but doesn’t actually use anything Andrew or his creative staff has made, guess what? Not protected! That’s because styles and concepts can’t be automatically copyrighted, and many cases, can’t be copyrighted at all.
However, if you draw your (or someone else’s) fan character in the same picture as an existing character, you no longer have the right to distribute it because it contains protected content.
Can’t I hide behind the “fair use” clause?
Since revising the rules on MSPAF and posting my initial tumblr entry about Andrew’s announcement, I’ve seen a few comments here and on other sites, such as 4chan, stating that you can just call a piece of fan work a parody or satire and magically be absolved from legal persecution.
WRONG.
Parody and satire are only protected by fair use if the nature of the derivative work meets certain standards with regards to criticism, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, as well as criteria based on the character of the derivative work, the purpose (commercial or nonprofit), and its effect on the potential market or value of the original, copyrighted work.
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