In case anyone is confused, Blackadder's (old) commissions rules were:
- All images can be used for legal commercial purposes! You can sell the images, use them for prints, books, t-shirts etc.
When he started doing split commissions, it became:
- All images can be used for legal commercial purposes!
- All images that have a non-exclusive license meaning that I will also have the right to use them in anyway I want.
Before he stopped taking commissions altogether, the final policy was:
- Images are for personal use only! Commercial use is not allowed. Sharing the images are not allowed.
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Depending on when SaxySax had their commission done, they were well within their rights to do so without getting banned. After all, a lot of people and commissioners viewed sharing their commissions as "selling" them for $0.
If they had their commissions done under the final policy, Blackadder was within his rights to ban them. Though it is ridiculous commissioners were not allowed to use their commissions for whatever they pleased under the final policy, buying said commissions means you agree to Blackadder's riduculous terms.
I do have some insider information that lets me believe Blackadder was so petty and idiotic that he banned those that shared their commissions even when they had them done under the earlier policies. I can't get into too much detail, and I know how annoying it is that my source is just trust me bro, but do be aware I was the one that shared 2 anonymous commissions on this site and 8muses back when it was still a thing. You can figure out what my sources are.
I believe there have been 3 private commission shares prior to SaxySax's? Kingdrew51's share on his blog prior to it being taken down and 2 commissions shared anonymously through me.
I would have warned SaxySax of his imminent banning if he were to share his commissions, but part of me wanted them to share and thought they knew the risk. I also wasn't able to access a computer and DM'ing on my phone is annoying.