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Commission Notice - Trademarked Characters by farorenightclaw
Unfortunately, in the light of the recent C&Ds by Hasbro, I will no longer be drawing MLP art for commissions.
Honestly, I have let my rules about trademarked and copyrighted characters slip over the last year or so. I'm not really comfortable drawing them for money, and I've been allowing people to commission me for digimon, pokemon, ponies, etc. I'm not comfortable with that and so I will be going back to my hardline approach of not drawing them for commissions at all.
This of course excludes parodies and characters with a 30% difference from the original trademarked character. I am still comfortable drawing those, at my own discretion.
Yes, I am aware I just posted a commission series that featured an MLP character. That was the last one I plan to do, as I came to this decision while I was finishing the series.
Apologies for any upset or inconvenience this causes, and thanks for reading.
Commission Notice - Trademarked Characters
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They issued them to a few people - the Ask Princess Molestia blog (thank god), Furry Dakimakura, and a few others.
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It was only a matter of time. Though, I'm pretty happy they did it.
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What was the C&D?
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Honestly, it's kind of the kick in the ass I needed. I've been wanting to stop drawing trademarked characters for a while now.
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(Can't respond directly to other comment atm...) Aaah, makes sense. And just out of curiosity, since I was considering trademarking a few of my characters... if I own the trademark, wouuld it be okay? =o
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Of course! That would be perfectly fine.
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honestly pretty glad to see them doing that. kind of hoping it dampens some of the behavior in that fandom. And thumbs on skipping trademarked stuff!
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I'm somewhat curious whether this extends to trademarked species or just trademarked characters. The distinction is rather important, and I think should be clarified in your policy. You do mention pokemon and digimon (likely referring to species, not characters) and also ponies (which probably refers to characters? I'm not sure.), I just think it should be clarified.
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Trademarked species would be covered as well. Anything that is trademarked that the commissioner does not own the rights to and does not have permission to have drawn.
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FeyPhoenix
Hasbro finally issues a c&d about mlp, huh?