Armor Games

Siiiiiick, sick sick sick!!!! :P

At the current rate of persecution, I'm going to make myself look like a closet Pokemon fetishist or something. Anyway.

There's just one caveat with the whole 'fanart' issue that I've been reminded of- and that is that it is still unclear as to how current intellectual property laws should be interpreted in terms of images of commercial characters. On another image-hosting website, I've been asked to take some images down due to their site-specific policy and their own interpretation of the laws and not wanting to get bullied by a team of inquisitors with e-cudgels (i.e. lawyers).

But I'm not sure that means we should take this thread down...so I'll get right back to you with a pic 8D

SkullZero, thanks for bringing that up!
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Which bit, the one about having a pokemon fetish or the intellectual property laws? 8D

Assuming it's the latter: I'm concerned that even if we say "original content", certain pieces of fanart may still be viewed as infringing copyright. Given this is a kids-friendly site, I'm pretty sure there's no PR issue to be had so long as we can demonstrate that what's presented here is done by us and isn't for commercial gain (that's really important), but it's always good to acknowledge "Pikachu is copyrighted by Nintendo" etc. which I forgot to state specifically on my earlier images, my bad.

...isn't for commercial gain

Dumbing this down further, it means you cannot offer to do fanart for money. That's against the law, as far as I understand it.

There's an "art trading post" here in which I allowed for the possibility of monetary transactions to take place should one wish it, but I should have specified: this does not include fanart.