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Kiefmaster99:

--- Quote from: Calamity on January 27, 2015, 10:52:55 AM ---Does making commissioned artwork based on Touhou fall under this? Say someone tells me they want X Touhou character drawn so I do that on a computer and send them the illustration digitally in exchange for money. Should this be avoided?

Also, here are two existing examples that contrast with the point of not selling digitally(correct me if I'm wrong):
Rin Ginsuke
Imizu

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Commissioned works are covered by the guidelines as an exception to the rule. From the Touhou Wiki:

--- Quote ---Summary of Blog Update:
Reproductions of individual commissions are explicitly exempted from the restrictions on
commercial work (i.e. if someone commissions you to do something, it?s okay to then sell
reproductions of it in limited quantities as a doujin work)
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Kiefmaster99:
(Delete - accidental doublepost)

Daya:

--- Quote from: Calamity on January 27, 2015, 10:52:55 AM ---Does making commissioned artwork based on Touhou fall under this? Say someone tells me they want X Touhou character drawn so I do that on a computer and send them the illustration digitally in exchange for money. Should this be avoided?

[snip]

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Actually a tangent to this question, a commissioned anything for that matter.

Say someone commissions a drawing, an animation, an arrange, or even *gasp* a game (if you hella ballin) for either private consumption or for later free public distribution ... I wonder what that would fall under (secondary sale is a definite no-no from what I am reading). Aside from art ... would other works fall under the same presumption.

An example strict guideline I've seen is Homestuck's Commissioning guideline where "only unique, two-dimensional images" is very specific and clear.

(*totally not referring to the icon she has*)

Moogs Parfait:
Commissioning pieces of your project should be good on all accounts as long as you yourself are a major creative part of the project. It's no different from paying someone to press CDs/DVDs or print books because you personally don't own that machinery and don't know how to do it yourself. On the other hand I can't see someone's only contribution to a project being money being okay. (Though it's hard to imagine any project with an angel investor not giving that person influence, even if it must pass through the skilled project member's revisions)

Daya:

--- Quote from: Moogs Parfait on January 27, 2015, 04:23:24 PM ---Commissioning pieces of your project should be good on all accounts as long as you yourself are a major creative part of the project. It's no different from paying someone to press CDs/DVDs or print books because you personally don't own that machinery and don't know how to do it yourself. On the other hand I can't see someone's only contribution to a project being money being okay. (Though it's hard to imagine any project with an angel investor not giving that person influence, even if it must pass through the skilled project member's revisions)

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Interesting! Definitely something that could be put up as a note re: full commissioned work.

I am making the presumption of a FULL work for private consumption and/or for later free distro -- with involvement of the person paying. Like for the Eridan x Aya commission, I had my artist go through 5 revisions, and dozens of corrections before we were both happy with what I got (and told said artist "I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE").

Partials (a work towards a larger project) or later sale I would expect to be murky and probably should not be done (or at least not addressed with this particular question).

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