Mod "Naruto"

[andreykko]

[Huston]

uhm Naruto is copywritten, that means that you cannot publish or release work done on a faction like this.

[Neoskel]

Dude, people already told you not to do this. Expecting this to get locked in a minute.

[Zarel]

uhm Naruto is copywritten, that means that you cannot publish or release work done on a faction like this.

Even though Naruto is copyrighted, there's nothing wrong with simply publishing fanwork relating to it. There are Naruto fan-works on deviantART: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=Naruto <- that's legal, too.

People here always think copyright law is more overreaching than it really is. :/

Dude, people already told you not to do this. Expecting this to get locked in a minute.

The BfW moderators are hardly that draconian. Sure, it may have no chance of getting accepted into the addon database, but that's no reason to lock it entirely.

[Frogger5]

Well in that case, are you open for critique andreykko?

[Neoskel]

uhm Naruto is copywritten, that means that you cannot publish or release work done on a faction like this.

Even though Naruto is copyrighted, there's nothing wrong with simply publishing fanwork relating to it. There are Naruto fan-works on deviantART: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=Naruto <- that's legal, too.

People here always think copyright law is more overreaching than it really is. :/

Nevertheless, content based on copyrighted sources is not allowed to be developed or distributed on the Wesnoth forums or server. It's just the policy around here.

Dude, people already told you not to do this. Expecting this to get locked in a minute.

The BfW moderators are hardly that draconian. Sure, it may have no chance of getting accepted into the addon database, but that's no reason to lock it entirely.

Hmmm.

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 24#p353224

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 40#p330940

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 38#p300538

[Zarel]

Nevertheless, content based on copyrighted sources is not allowed to be developed or distributed on the Wesnoth forums or server. It's just the policy around here.

Hmmm.

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 24#p353224

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 40#p330940

http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php ... 38#p300538

Your citations are from 3-6 years ago, and the latest one was locked only because the thread starter asked for it to be (and it was also Turuk who said it - Turuk advocates more restrictive forums than the other forum moderators).

Here's Jetrel, from 2 days ago:

http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic. ... 55#p409555

That said, I wholeheartedly encourage fooling around with making sprites of copyrighted stuff you like - it keeps you motivated, just don't try and put it in wesnoth.

Regardless, I hear shadowmaster dislikes it when users do "backseat moderating". If the moderators feel a thread will be locked, it will be. Otherwise, there's no need to "call for a lock".

[Boucman]

What Jetrel meant is that you are encouraged to work on copyrighted work because working on something you like is the best way to learn

However we can be held responsible for the content of our servers, and (in some country) for not enforcing copyright laws when we know about them

As such, our policy is "no copyright based stuff on wesnoth servers" and that applies to the forum too

Locked

[thespaceinvader]

I already said not to do this.

Zarel (and neoskel, for that matter): please don't try to backseat mod, nor to tell us what our forum policy is. It has been this way since before I joined. The important part of Jetrel's post was the 'don't use them in Wesnoth' part - which the OP clearly intends to do. I could cite numerous examples I've locked in the past few months for this very reason. Our policy is inflexible, and is probably more severe than it technically needs to be. But we make no bones about the fact that we are covering our backsides against any possible suggestion of impropriety.

To the OP: You're welcome to make sprites inspired by copyrighted (NOT copywritten, dammit, whoever it was who wrote it that way) works for your own artistic improvement. You are NOT welcome to develop add-on content derivative of such material, and it WILL get locked.

Like this.

However: your work is pretty good for someone starting out. Come up with an original concept and you might go far =)