Finishing up my panel notes...one more question!
I know that many people who build fursuits tend to shy away from making copyright charactars for various reasons. One of those reasons expressed is the fact that they are the intellectual property of someone else/another company/entity and it's not worth the risk of getting into trouble. That is a totally legitimate reason to avoid making them. So here is my question.
Can anyone give me first hand or once reamoved (it actually happened to someone you know or you and you can confirm it) of getting into hot water with the owner/copyright holder/company over making a costume/mascot/fursuit of a copyright charactar; specifically pop culture/anime/MLP/cartoon/Disney/and stuff like that. I've heard of companies taking a fursuit design and mass producing it before so that's not really the information I'm looking for.
I know companies do take pirating seriously and there is a lot of gray area with arts and crafts but how serious are they with fursuits/mascots?
Thank you!
*edit*
Have you ever heard of someone asking FOR permission to make a copyrighted charactar and getting that permission?
I know that many people who build fursuits tend to shy away from making copyright charactars for various reasons. One of those reasons expressed is the fact that they are the intellectual property of someone else/another company/entity and it's not worth the risk of getting into trouble. That is a totally legitimate reason to avoid making them. So here is my question.
Can anyone give me first hand or once reamoved (it actually happened to someone you know or you and you can confirm it) of getting into hot water with the owner/copyright holder/company over making a costume/mascot/fursuit of a copyright charactar; specifically pop culture/anime/MLP/cartoon/Disney/and stuff like that. I've heard of companies taking a fursuit design and mass producing it before so that's not really the information I'm looking for.
I know companies do take pirating seriously and there is a lot of gray area with arts and crafts but how serious are they with fursuits/mascots?
Thank you!
*edit*
Have you ever heard of someone asking FOR permission to make a copyrighted charactar and getting that permission?