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Yeah, I really did not know how Windstone people would feel about messing with that all sacred eyeball. It is definantly a windstone trademark and when I see a windstone creature that eyeball is one of the first things to grab my attention. I honestly thought it would not go this well in regards to my repainting the eye. I felt sure I would recieve “BLASPHEMY!, SACRILIDGE! NEVER mess with a windstone eye!!” messages from everyone on that issue…
Repainting the eyes wasn’t something I planned on doing very often. I like the windstone eyes I just wasn’t keen on the red color for this hippogriff. I thought maybe orange would look cool though, wish I had those orange eyes in him.
Yeah Emerald it is cool if you scrape the paint off the eye. It does not offend me (though I know you weren’t asking,lol), and really, I feel like once a person pays for something they own it and can play dodgeball with it if they wanted to. On some changes to the paint I might ask you make note of it on the bottom of the piece, but usually I don’t care much even about that.
Oh and someone asked about commissions. I think it would be fun to take them so yeah I’d be up for it I think.
Gotta run to the PO now! Time for Emerald’s hippogriff to leave me and fly to her. 😛
UnicornLvr wrote:Oh and someone asked about commissions. I think it would be fun to take them so yeah I’d be up for it I think.
Re: Commissions- just remember repainting productions pieces is heavily discouraged by Windstone, so you may not want to advertise it here. (PYOs, of course, are totally okay!!) 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comUnicornLvr wrote:Yeah, I really did not know how Windstone people would feel about messing with that all sacred eyeball. It is definantly a windstone trademark and when I see a windstone creature that eyeball is one of the first things to grab my attention. I honestly thought it would not go this well in regards to my repainting the eye. I felt sure I would recieve “BLASPHEMY!, SACRILIDGE! NEVER mess with a windstone eye!!” messages from everyone on that issue…
Repainting the eyes wasn’t something I planned on doing very often. I like the windstone eyes I just wasn’t keen on the red color for this hippogriff. I thought maybe orange would look cool though, wish I had those orange eyes in him.
Yeah Emerald it is cool if you scrape the paint off the eye. It does not offend me (though I know you weren’t asking,lol), and really, I feel like once a person pays for something they own it and can play dodgeball with it if they wanted to. On some changes to the paint I might ask you make note of it on the bottom of the piece, but usually I don’t care much even about that.
Oh and someone asked about commissions. I think it would be fun to take them so yeah I’d be up for it I think.
Gotta run to the PO now! Time for Emerald’s hippogriff to leave me and fly to her. 😛
Don’t worry. I won’t repaint it. I’m not a painter at all. I think it’s beautiful just the way it is. I’m just not sure about the eye, but I’ll withhold judgement until I see it.
I can’t wait to get it. I have a place for it already! Woo hoo!
Yes, I am now aware of how windstone feels in regards to repainting the non PYOs. I painted the hippogriff before I joined the forums. When I said I’d take commissions I meant for the PYO’s. Sorry I didn’t clarify that. 😳
But on a side note, had I NOT joined the forums I would still not know that Windstone didn’t like you to repaint their non-PYO’s, and I probably would have listed the hippogriff to ebay, and if it would have sold for a price I was pleased with, I would have painted more of them and even tried painting other non PYO windstones. I think that maybe they should put that note in on their copyright information page when you visit their website. It really would not have occured to me that windstone would have a problem with people repainting their sculptures, but again, I’m used to Breyer. With them you can cut, twist, melt, resculpt, ect…
Now I’m sure had that happened someone from windstone would have sent me a message through eBay eventually, but by seeing that information on the forums such a situation was able to be prevented entirely..which is great! But I visited their website for a long time before I even realized they had a forum. Had I seen a message about the repainting issue on the website before I started the hippogriff I would not have painted it. Just sold it on ebay as is most likely. 😉
Yep, that’s true…
But I’m talking about the *non* PYO’s. Like the Hippogriff I painted. 😉
It also could be that the copyright page *does* say ‘no painting of non pyo’s’ and I’m just not reading it correctly. Or, basic copyright laws automatically protect from such things, and I am just ignorant. Yep, wouldn’t rule that out. 😳 I just thought repainting it and then saying it’s an original factory finish is illegal, but repainting it and making it known to be a custom and not a factory authorized paint job was not illegal. I’m probably wrong though. I know I have been mislead in some issues of copyright violations by being into the customizing of breyer horses for so long. I’m so sorry, I really didn’t mean to offend anyone or disrespect the company. 😳 🙁
It’s okay! You’re not breaking the law- repaints are just dicouraged because it can lead to confusion when Windstone is dealing with illegal copies of Windstones. I know it seems like a weird way to think but there are lots of people that try to rip off Windstones (either by casting off of an original Windstone or otherwise), and one of the ways Windstone determines what is afake that they need to persue legally and what is real is by looking at a few key factors. One of the main ones is color- so any production piece that is not a production color is suspect. Of course here in the community we are pretty close knit, but the truth is that we only reperesent a small percentage of Windstone collectors so it’s too hard to keep track of. I hope all of that makes sense! The discouragement is not there because they want to stifle creativity (that’s why they made PYOs!!) but because it makes the lives of the Windstone staff and lawyers much easier!
As far as reproducing Windstone color schemes, it is illegal to reproduce a Windstone color/paint scheme on anything, be it a PYO, production piece, a ceramic dragon, your neighbor’s cat… anything. This is because their color schemes are protected by something called trade dress, which means the entire look of the piece is legally protected.
I hope this was all helpful! Melody is aware that there is perhaps not enough information that comes with PYOs in regard to this and it’s being worked on. 🙂
Please don’t feel bad- well are all learning on here and you’ve done nothing wrong. 🙂
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My art: featherdust.comNambroth wrote:As far as reproducing Windstone color schemes, it is illegal to reproduce a Windstone color/paint scheme on anything, be it a PYO, production piece, a ceramic dragon, your neighbor’s cat… anything. This is because their color schemes are protected by something called trade dress, which means the entire look of the piece is legally protected.
Damn…..Guess I’ll have to get the soap and a hose….
Nirvanacat13 wrote:Nambroth wrote:As far as reproducing Windstone color schemes, it is illegal to reproduce a Windstone color/paint scheme on anything, be it a PYO, production piece, a ceramic dragon, your neighbor’s cat… anything. This is because their color schemes are protected by something called trade dress, which means the entire look of the piece is legally protected.
Damn…..Guess I’ll have to get the soap and a hose…. 😯 Poor kitty…
I got the Hippogriff today! It’s so beautiful. I like the way the eyes look too, so I’m not scratching the paint off. I don’t know how you did it, but it still looks like there’s depth there. He’s just gorgeous, Unicornlvr. Thank you!
emerald212 wrote:I got the Hippogriff today! It’s so beautiful. I like the way the eyes look too, so I’m not scratching the paint off. I don’t know how you did it, but it still looks like there’s depth there. He’s just gorgeous, Unicornlvr. Thank you!
Sweet!! I’m glad it got there safely and you are pleased with him! Thanks so much for buying him, I really appreciate it, Emerald!!! 😀
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