Gaia Avis's Ownership

9/1/20

General Design/Character

• Can be gifted or traded away. 
• Cannot be resold for more than initial price + commission costs. 
  • Can be resold for any currency. 
  • Personal art or free art would not add value ;n;
• Unless specified, all of my designs were priced for personal use, not commercial. 
  • Commercial price is maybe 3-4x the cost of personal use. 
  • Commercial price may vary depending on personal use design cost. 
    • These are just random number. Not actual costs.
    • $10 personal use cost = $100 w/ commercial rights. 
    • $200 personal use cost = $500 w/ commercial rights
  • With commercial rights the design and art belongs to you 100%. 
    • Depending on the contract, I may or may not be given permission to use the artwork for my portfolio.  
  • Bought for only $10 with commercial rights? You got the commercial rights so it's your property to do whatever. 
    • You can resell for however much you want.
    • Trace it and sell as a base to many people. 
    • Sell my art/design on places like gumroad to multiple people.
    • Use the art/design on products and sell the merch
    • Endless possibilities :O 
• Do I NEED commercial rights? 
  • Only if you are planning to use the design for sales. Using it for a game, book, merchandise, reselling, etc. 
  • Non-profit usage still require commercial rights since you are raising money. Even though the money isn't into your pocket, someone or some entity is gaining money. 
  • You can purchase commercial rights later on if the need arises. 

Closed Species

• Designs are never for commercial use unless 
  • You void the character from the species
  • Get rid of the species form and use the design on something else
  • and purchase commercial rights to the design
• Don't have to strictly stick to the lore of the species unless you are part taking in the group/world that requires stuff to be canon.
• Do not split up the design and species when selling/trading/gifting.
  • Ex. use the CS's design on a dog and resell the dog but keep the CS with the design still. 
• You can give the closed species design alternate forms/AU forms.
  • ex. I have CS character and made a dog character with same design. They're the same character but CS form and dog form and both are in my possession. Now they cannot be separated unless heavily altered. . If CS is sold the dog form is sold along with it. 
  • If the AU form doesn't look similar to the CS design. Yes, they can be sold separately since they bare no resembles to cause problems.
• Can be traded and gifted. 
• Cannot be resold for more than initial price + commission costs. 
  • Can be resold for any currency. 
  • Personal art or free art doesn't raise it's value.