Is it okay to monetize on fan-made merchandise?

(Shinywindow) #1

Back around 2015, I believe one of the devs said that DB fan-works couldn’t be monetized due to legal issues.

It’s 2017 now, and I’ve made these cute stickers I wanna sell. Would it be okay if I sold them for my own profit?

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(nokiII) #2

No it’s not.

(everlovestruck) #3

Persuade SD to buy sticker design from you, then get your cut :relieved:

(BlackboltLW) #4

I think as long as you don’t reselling official merch then it’s fine, I guess

I mean it’s counted as fanwork, right? Kinda like selling fan comics on a comic convention

(K1X455) #5

I guess you’ll have to arrange for licensing the IP with SD/Warchest pretty much like what others have done to their products with Star Wars items.

BTW, where’s Proxy’s Pizza?

(GatoCommodore) #6

sell it to SD

(BlackboltLW) #7

@GatoCommodore said:
sell it to SD

Trade those stickers with Turtle

(hawkeyeguy99) #8

Because you are using someone else’s intellectual property, you can’t sell for your own profit without express permission from the owner. (I work in the music industry so I run into copyright stuff all the time)

Here’s what you can do with them: print them for personal use… and that’s pretty much it. You get into iffy legal grounds even distributing them for free (just look at how many fan-games get DCMA’d.)

I’d contact SD directly to ask. Someone such as @stayfreshshoe could probably help point you in the right direction.

All that said, I LOVE those stickers and would definitely like some myself. Great designs!

(hawkeyeguy99) #9

Can you make a Fragger one? Cause I love me some Fragger. lol

(HammerOfDawn21) #10

This is good art, hope you and SD can come to an agreement and make this the first batch of official DB merchandise.

(AlbinMatt) #11

I’m no copyright expert, but I think you can sell it to SD, and get some kind of royalty or something
Kind of like what an author would do with a publisher.

(ImSploosh) #12

The Stoker one is the best. BBQ goes perfectly with his ability. I love Proxy BBQ the most.

(Press E) #13

Those ammo stations are absolutely perfect, SD please

(kopyright) #14

@hawkeyeguy99 said:
Can you make a Fragger one? Cause I love me some Fragger. lol

Pineapple!

(Your worst knifemare.) #15

Even if you can’t sell them, i still think it would be cool for SD to hide them around some of the maps or to make trinkets out of them.

(JonBongNoJovi) #16

Typical of this game, would have expected a official response from a dev by now like

(K1X455) #17

Well, if they say yes, they lose out on IP.

If they say no, they lose on marketing.

Fine line really, but I’m sure creative people can be given some appropriate royalty for their promotion efforts.

(Wolven) #18

Looks like this might fall under Fair Use.

They look awesome. I hope you can come to some arrangement with SD.

(Nail) #19

@JonBongNoJovi said:
Typical of this game, would have expected a official response from a dev by now like

Why ?
OP already has the answer NO

no need for Dev to bother

my opinion, they might appeal to the under 13 crowd

(ImSploosh) #20

@Nail said:

@JonBongNoJovi said:
Typical of this game, would have expected a official response from a dev by now like

Why ?
OP already has the answer NO

no need for Dev to bother

my opinion, they might appeal to the under 13 crowd
Let’s add stickers to our guns!