Is this texture I made usable?

[Jamey]

I made this texture for us all to use in our ages to leave our logo as the guild of writers. The only problem is this: Does using this logo break any copyright laws towards Cyan?

Here is the texture:

[Lontahv]

Hmm, if I were you, I'd trace the design in a vector-graphics program. I think that would be ok, I'm not really sure. The best thing to do is email a little friendly message to the cyan legal email address about your texture. legal@cyan.com is the address. Better safe than sorry.

~Lontahv

[Nek'rahm]

Seconding lontahv here

[Jamey]

Ok, I just sent them an E-mail along with the texture, and I'll let you guys know when they get back to me

[Jamey]

Cyan finally got back to me, I'll post what I sent them, and what they sent back to me.

Shorah and Hello Cyan,

The Guild of Writers have been working very hard to make fan-made game textures for our fan-made ages ever since the shutdown of Myst Online. Since I am one of the people who make these textures, I decided to make a texture, but I'm not sure if this certain texture breaks any copyright violations or anything like that, so I wanted to E-mail this to you to make sure I know what I can and cannot do in terms of making textures.

The texture also is found here if the picture fails to show up attached to this E-mail: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1708

The stone backround is hand-made by me. However, I thought it would be cool to include the D'ni Guilds logo, so we can leave our mark saying it is a fan created age made by the Writers and the Maintainers. So I edited it in Photoshop, and this was the result. Now, I DO know that we are not allowed to use any of Cyan's textures, which is why I made the stone backround in this texture. What I am not sure about is whether or not we can use this logo to symbolize our fan created ages, or if it is in fact a copyright infringement.

Would we be allowed to use this specific logo, or is this not allowed by Cyan?

Thanks so much,

-Jamey
(Texture Designer of the Guild of Writers)

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Cyan's Response:

Shorah Jamey,


I don't see any legal issues with the use as you have described. Use it in good health.


Tony



So this means that we are all free to use this Logo in our fan-created ages!

[Justintime9]

Yay!

[Grogyan]

Hooray!

[Deledrius]

The one you posted is a bit blurry, so I took the liberty of vectorizing it:

dniGuilds-final.svg

D'ni Guilds Logo (textless)

(12.4 KiB) Downloaded 439 times

Here's a sample (since the board isn't displaying the SVG properly at this time) rendered at 400x400:

D'ni Guilds Logo (textless) Sample

dniGuilds-final.png (34.31 KiB) Viewed 4494 times

I'll probably see about adding the text, and maybe making different colored versions later if no one beats me to it. Feel free to take these and perfect them.


Standard disclaimer: The original image and design copyrights belong to Cyan Worlds, of course.

[Jamey]

The one you posted is a bit blurry, so I took the liberty of vectorizing it:

dniGuilds-final.svg

Here's a sample (since the board isn't displaying the SVG properly at this time) rendered at 400x400:

dniGuilds-final.png

I'll probably see about adding the text, and maybe making different colored versions later if no one beats me to it. Feel free to take these and perfect them.


Standard disclaimer: The original image and design copyrights belong to Cyan Worlds, of course.

Wow, this looks great Deledrius! Thanks a million!

And yeah, if you could find a way to add the text at the bottom which says "D'ni Guilds" that would be awesome

[Deledrius]

Okay, I've got the rest all done up for the Five Live guilds, but I'm getting a "board attachment quota has been reached" error when I try to attach the file. It's only 3.8KB... Is the quota global?