You licensed this OGA-BY. That means people can use this without asking you. Actually, all the licenses on OpenGameArt.org allow people to use this asset without contacting you.
I hope you still want to keep this asset here, but I thought you should know that saying "If you wonna use, you can ask me..." is not really enforceable.
The importance of the name change is not really about parody in this case (although that's part of it). It's more about substantial similarity. Due to the style of the art, no reasonable person would mistake this for an actual photograph of trump, but a character's visual similarity is not the only thing covered by IP law.
If someone submitted artwork called "Sonic the Hedgehog" describing a character that loves to go fast and collect golden rings, but the picture looked nothing like Sonic the Hedgehog, it would still be a licensing issue. Not because the artwork looks like a character protected by IP, but because the name and description describe a character that is protected.
A name change is probably not absolutely necessary, but "Donald Trump" describes a trademarked brand name, even if the portrait does not. When victorkunai changed the name to something that "a reasonable person" won't mistake for a trademark, he granted potential users of the asset some measure of surity against IP issues.
Sara is the official mascot for OGA, but she is allowed to be used elsewhere since she is licensed CC-BY and GPL. The original character and artwork is by Mandi Paugh, which I believe was commissioned by bart, the site owner. There have since been many derivatives made. I'm not sure exactly how many there are total, but here are some of them.
A search for the keyword "sara" may also reveal a few others. Many submissions of sara in differing styles are the result of an art challenge a while back.
Dead link?
This is more of a "show off your project" post. Do you mind if I move it to that forum?
some admins (don't know who) are workin on the code every once in a while, but no one new that I know of.
Haha! nice. ...and thanks.
I thought
good stuff.
You licensed this OGA-BY. That means people can use this without asking you. Actually, all the licenses on OpenGameArt.org allow people to use this asset without contacting you.I hope you still want to keep this asset here, but I thought you should know that saying "If you wonna use, you can ask me..." is not really enforceable.EDIT: thanks. good animation.
The importance of the name change is not really about parody in this case (although that's part of it). It's more about substantial similarity. Due to the style of the art, no reasonable person would mistake this for an actual photograph of trump, but a character's visual similarity is not the only thing covered by IP law.
If someone submitted artwork called "Sonic the Hedgehog" describing a character that loves to go fast and collect golden rings, but the picture looked nothing like Sonic the Hedgehog, it would still be a licensing issue. Not because the artwork looks like a character protected by IP, but because the name and description describe a character that is protected.
A name change is probably not absolutely necessary, but "Donald Trump" describes a trademarked brand name, even if the portrait does not. When victorkunai changed the name to something that "a reasonable person" won't mistake for a trademark, he granted potential users of the asset some measure of surity against IP issues.
Those nid's correspond to the following submissions:
Sara is the official mascot for OGA, but she is allowed to be used elsewhere since she is licensed CC-BY and GPL. The original character and artwork is by Mandi Paugh, which I believe was commissioned by bart, the site owner. There have since been many derivatives made. I'm not sure exactly how many there are total, but here are some of them.
A search for the keyword "sara" may also reveal a few others. Many submissions of sara in differing styles are the result of an art challenge a while back.
Lol! "Doland Prunt"
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