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I am hearing the complaint that my plushes sell for too much money. I start my plushes on ebay for $75.00. It is the fans that set the price. So you say" well only the bronies with a lot of money can buy the plushes".
Quotecustomizing is NOT infringing.Unfortunately, customizing a pony to be a hasbro character IS infringing on copyright if you are making a profit on it.
customizing is NOT infringing.
Quote from: xkappax on May 22, 2012, 07:23:52 PMQuotecustomizing is NOT infringing.Unfortunately, customizing a pony to be a hasbro character IS infringing on copyright if you are making a profit on it.No not really, since you bought it you have legally right to do whatever you want with your pony. May it be burning it or customize it, you can claim the artwork design to be yours but not the actual design of the pony mold.As an example was this man I read about. He bought an iphone and tinkered with it to make it work with his sim as apple had a deal where only one tele company may use the iphone for their sims in that country. However the guy found that the company having this deal was far too expensive, so with his skills he unlocked the phone. This was something that annoyed apple and they filed a copyright claim, as this fella sold some unlocked phones. Apple didn't get the right in court, as the judge stated that when you buy something from a company for personal use it's not infringement. He was simply just making small modifies to his property and sold his property.
Who's bashing her? Her plushies are amazing, and no one's criticizing her for selling them. Just pointing out that it's not legal, and even those others of us who've sold fan art acknowledge that. I've not even seen too much criticism of her prices, just that of course, with prices like that, it's not surprising Hasbro would care, and many of us would never pay that much, even acknowledging the work that went into them.But I haven't seen much criticism or negativity toward the artist herself.
It is the same difference as selling a painting that is 100% original and selling a painting of Minnie Mouse on ebay, for example. In the second case Disney has every right to have ebay give the auction the banhammer because they own Minnie Mouse. Hasbro currently owns the characters from FIM and G3 (tho they lost the rights for the G1s) so it is infringing if you make a G1 Pinkie Pie whether they want to say anything about it or not.
Too bad Hasbro is shaking their finger at her. But, maybe that means they're noticed the value of show-accurate toys, eh?