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Capcom On Tuesday, the company announced new guidelines for fan-created derivative works based on the company’s intellectual property. The new policy clarifies the company’s stance on certain types of derivative works. Creators of derivative works need not ask Capcom Permission is obtained, as long as the derivative works follow the Guidelines. However, Capcom reserves the right to stop the sale or distribution of any derivative works by contacting the creator or pursuing legal action.
Capcom Creators are allowed to sell derivative works as long as they are limited to “fans” and are in small quantities and sales, e.g. through dōjinshi (Mostly self-published projects by hobbyists). However, the Company prohibits the sale of Derivative Works for profit, at which time the Company may intervene to prohibit the sale and distribution of the Works. Capcom The definition of what qualifies a work for sale within the scope of “enthusiast” will not be clearly stated. Capcom Selling is also allowed garage kit and unofficial figures at events like Wonder Festival, but it’s based on the guidelines of the event itself.
Capcom Certain types of content are prohibited from being displayed in derivative works, including:
- Discriminatory or obscene content, or content that violates public moral standards
- defamatory content
- religious or political content
- Anti-social or immoral content
- Content containing intellectual property rights of third parties
- Content that damages the recognition of original intellectual property rights
- Content that could be mistaken for official or approved Capcom content
- Content that harms or otherwise has harmful effects Capcombusiness activities
- Content used Capcomcompany logo or intellectual property logo
- Directly use or copy content from a copyrighted work Capcom no meaningful changes
- The content is Capcom Otherwise it is considered inappropriate
Within the industry, many guidelines have been understood as “unspoken agreements” by fan creators and rights holders, particularly regarding the sale of derivative works within the “fandom” context. Guidelines for publishing derivative works are rarely clear from rights holders. Mei Niang beautiful derby Here’s another notable example franchise published guidelines for use in derivative works.
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