The copyright thing isn't true for furvilla at least. Their ToS says you retain ownership, and they explicitly allow you to still sell any uploaded art for RLC. The game villagers wearing the art can't be sold for RLC, but the art can.
"Upon submitting your user-generated content to Furvilla, for the sole purpose of making your content available to other Furvilla players on Furvilla, you grant Furvilla a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, modify, change, transmit, alter, redistribute, re-format, store, create derivative works from, publicly display and perform your content in any media known or hereafter created." - right from the ToS.
As I said, you own the artwork and concept itself, but they get a license to use that art however they see fit without compensation to you. This is essentially the same as what FR does with their UMAs.
Now, I don't see anything in the ToS about whether they allow RLC trading for Painties or other content you upload, but that was DEFINITELY a major point of contention early in that whatever you upload, it becomes part of the site, and you can no longer trade RLC for whatever was uploaded to the site without the site's consent explicitly given. If that's since changed, that's rad! But it was DEFINITELY an issue at the start of the site because it was the same clause that Aywas had and currently still has.
DA the sentence you quote is standard to most (all?) sites that allow you to upload images as resizing your image from, for example, 350x350 dragon image to 50x50 lair view, falls under that sentence; there should be a separate point about who owns the intellectual property, ie who and where and how someone is allowed to sell the image. example: tumblr tos https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/terms-of-service
AYRT "Players retain full ownership to the content they submit." -the sentence literally right before the one you quoted.
As the other anon said, what you quoted is the standard legalese for 'you give us permission to host this image.' It doesn't give them the right to use it however they want, because the granted rights are only "for the sole purpose of making your content available to other Furvilla players on Furvilla"
I also don't remember it being an issue before, and I'd been there since beta. I do remember people similarly misunderstanding the hosting clause though, and them clarifying multiple times that you retain all rights. I've also seen this exact conversation happen with regards to Tumblr, Twitter, and DeviantArt's ToS
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Re: Pet sites
(Anonymous) 2022-02-14 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Pet sites
(Anonymous) 2022-02-14 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)As I said, you own the artwork and concept itself, but they get a license to use that art however they see fit without compensation to you. This is essentially the same as what FR does with their UMAs.
Now, I don't see anything in the ToS about whether they allow RLC trading for Painties or other content you upload, but that was DEFINITELY a major point of contention early in that whatever you upload, it becomes part of the site, and you can no longer trade RLC for whatever was uploaded to the site without the site's consent explicitly given. If that's since changed, that's rad! But it was DEFINITELY an issue at the start of the site because it was the same clause that Aywas had and currently still has.
Re: Pet sites
(Anonymous) 2022-02-14 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)the sentence you quote is standard to most (all?) sites that allow you to upload images as resizing your image from, for example, 350x350 dragon image to 50x50 lair view, falls under that sentence; there should be a separate point about who owns the intellectual property, ie who and where and how someone is allowed to sell the image. example: tumblr tos https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/terms-of-service
Re: Pet sites
(Anonymous) 2022-02-14 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)"Players retain full ownership to the content they submit." -the sentence literally right before the one you quoted.
As the other anon said, what you quoted is the standard legalese for 'you give us permission to host this image.' It doesn't give them the right to use it however they want, because the granted rights are only "for the sole purpose of making your content available to other Furvilla players on Furvilla"
I also don't remember it being an issue before, and I'd been there since beta. I do remember people similarly misunderstanding the hosting clause though, and them clarifying multiple times that you retain all rights. I've also seen this exact conversation happen with regards to Tumblr, Twitter, and DeviantArt's ToS