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I have gotten some of my first requests for PYO commisions and I am very happy about it, but when they tell me what they want, its almost always requests for a design matching current Windstone pieces. I have to tell them I cant do that and I feel bad. Has anyone else taken/turned down requests like that? What do you do?
I haven’t gotten that with Windstones yet. But then I haven’t really focused on them lately, and certainly haven’t been trying to get PYO commissions.
I get it ALL THE TIME with fursuits though! No, I’m sorry, I can’t make you a Lola Bunny suit. Warner Bros would not be happy with me at all. (And it’s always Lola Bunny, for some reason. She is apparently very popular.)
I’ve gotten one of those – I just explained that it was against copyright law and that I WOULD NOT make one to look exactly the same. Luckily he settled for one that would at least fit in and not clash with the production colors.
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R Tolkienskigod377 wrote:I have told both people that I couldn’t do it, but I feel like such a jerk! 😆
You shouldn’t feel like a jerk. I think most people just don’t understand that the Windstone look is copyrighted. What did they say when you explained it to them? I would hope they’d be willing to work with you to come up with an original design. OOAK is much better than a duplicate of an original any day. Especially, one of yours! 😀
Thank you, Star! I just told them it was copywritten and I would not be able to do it. One just asked me to come up with something, and the other has not written back.
skigod377 wrote:Thank you, Star! I just told them it was copywritten and I would not be able to do it. One just asked me to come up with something, and the other has not written back.
The one who wrote back will be getting a PYO they can treasure for years to come. 😀
Maybe the other one is just thinking about it. If not 😛 to them.
I’ve gotten a few requests to copy people’s stuff…..and I let them know I won’t…..I can do something that looks similar…but it’s actually very different in person….
I get that a lot as well, and loose commissions because I simply say no. But copyright law is copyright law. Just because some people may draw a taz on a shirt and sell it doesn’t make it right. A lot of non-painters want to get the Windstone PYO sculptures because they are unique sculpts and they, as collectors, want at least one of everything…so they try to get matching paint jobs to go with their sets, but you just gotta tell them it’s against the copyright and most of the time they understand. In some cases though they say they will find someone else to do it for them.
It’s not always easy to handle clients. Dealing with the public is never easy and misunderstandings can happen and sometimes clients can get very upset over things. I have had people tell me they wanted a piece painted like a Goldenwolf piece of art, or like Vantids winged wolves, or of other people’s PYOs. Personally, if someone wants a copy of my PYO job they really should come to me, or go to the person whose PYO paint job they liked and request the commission.
Don’t worry Ski, it’s better you turn them down now than have to deal with problems in the future.
I didn’t know you couldn’t reproduce color schemes. I can see where it’s poor form, but is a color really copywrited?
Some of the windstone pieces are generically colored like the griffens/flion. When I think of painting a griffen, it’s tan with white wings. You can’t get more generic than that.
When painting the PYO’s, especially the wolves, it’s hard to find a color combination that hasn’t been used, especially if you like normal colored wolves…
Looking through the galleries, just about every combination has been tried or used.
Now I’m nervous. I know my practice PYO wolf turned out A LOT like one of Skigod’s wolves (not the one I posted). Would I be looked at like a copycat? I really had no intention of it turning out like that, but…Phoenix wrote:I didn’t know you couldn’t reproduce color schemes. I can see where it’s poor form, but is a color really copywrited?
Some of the windstone pieces are generically colored like the griffens/flion. When I think of painting a griffen, it’s tan with white wings. You can’t get more generic than that.
When painting the PYO’s, especially the wolves, it’s hard to find a color combination that hasn’t been used, especially if you like normal colored wolves…
Looking through the galleries, just about every combination has been tried or used.
Now I’m nervous. I know my practice PYO wolf turned out A LOT like one of Skigod’s wolves (not the one I posted). Would I be looked at like a copycat? I really had no intention of it turning out like that, but…Our colors are not copywritten… you can copy them without getting in legal trouble as fas as I know, but Windstones are. If you painted a ki rin like Melodys’ ki rins and sold it, that may be a Problem. Also, if you painted a PYO dragon in a Windstone color, like rainbow, or Black gold, etc… those patters are protected. If it can be mistaken for Windstones work, it is not allowed. I believe that was the word we all got.
And you painted a wolf like mine?? 😀 I wanna see!! 😀
Natural colors aren’t copyrighted, and the colors themselves aren’t, just how they’re used.
So you can paint a wolf like any real wolf or dog and be fine.
You could even paint a dragon in brown with blue accents, say, but the problem comes if you painted it in the same kind of brown, with the blue done the same way, so you’re copying the official Windstone color exactly.
And us forum members haven’t copyrighted our designs or colors at all.
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