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Can I use Fire Emblem Tilesets?
#1
Posted 27 April 2014 - 03:52 AM
Thanks,
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#2
Posted 27 April 2014 - 02:09 PM
Technically it wouldn't be legal to make small edits to the original either, as you are still using property that does not belong to you to do so. My advice to you is to "recreate" (wink wink) the tilesets
#3
Posted 27 April 2014 - 10:32 PM
QUOTE (Fisty Risty @ Apr 27 2014, 10:09 AM) |
You'd have to recreate them from scratch, with small differences, to be legally eligible to use them. Flappybird, for example, did NOT use original Mario sprites, but rather recreations. Technically it wouldn't be legal to make small edits to the original either, as you are still using property that does not belong to you to do so. My advice to you is to "recreate" (wink wink) the tilesets |
Sounds good What I might end up doing is taking my favorite FE tileset and more or less manually copying the tiles, while adding my own "style" (I guess) to them. How much I end up changing will depend on the amount of time/willpower I have at that point Thanks for the clarification! If the idea turns into a good project then I'll start up a thread talking about it
#4
Posted 28 April 2014 - 01:22 AM
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#5
Posted 28 April 2014 - 04:56 AM
think "the big picture", just changing the palette of the tileset, for instances, isn't going to get you free
recreating it with a slightly different style probably will
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#6
Posted 29 April 2014 - 02:51 AM
QUOTE (Fire Blazer @ Apr 28 2014, 12:56 AM) |
So, if I do recreate some tilesets that actually look half decent, do I automatically own all the rights to them (since I created them) and can enforce no commercial usage unless the user has bought a license or whatever?
#7
Posted 29 April 2014 - 06:06 PM
However it is not trademarked or patented automatically so you still have to worry about those
When it comes to graphical work, if there isn't any IP in there that isn't your own (e.g. Mario), it's yours. It's art work, if someone uses it without your permission and makes money off of it, that's illegal. Of course, as with anything, trying to enforce people not to use stuff for free is a lot harder (no one stops us from using FE official art, for instance, lol).
As far as selling it to people goes, you'd have to come up with some sort of terms where they're allowed to use it under certain circumstances etc., which can be a bit complicated and would require some looking into. For instance though, in a project I'm working on as part of the contract I've got certain access to the graphical assets and can edit them within a certain extent though I can't claim they're owned by me and this was written in a semi-formal contract
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#8
Posted 30 April 2014 - 02:18 AM
#9
Posted 30 April 2014 - 03:37 PM
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#10
Posted 01 May 2014 - 03:16 AM
QUOTE (Fire Blazer @ Apr 29 2014, 01:06 PM) |
I'm not a lawyer but AFAIK anything you create that can be deemed your own is automatically copyrighted However it is not trademarked or patented automatically so you still have to worry about those |
A patent is just for an idea or whatever so noone can copy it. For example, you patent a drug so no one else can sell a drug of the same chemical formula.
Trademarks are just for names, correct?
So that stuff shouldn't even matter anyway.
#11
Posted 01 May 2014 - 02:35 PM
If he came up with something extremely innovative in terms of how tilesets work or maybe he created a name for them and wanted to trademark them
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#12
Posted 04 May 2014 - 02:08 AM
#13
Posted 04 May 2014 - 11:33 AM
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