I find this rule really weird though, can they actually enforce something like this in america? Like, not allowing you to share ANY pictures you make in one of their games? Even if you would not sell them. When I google "Honey select" and select pictures I see a lot of images that arent official ones, will fakku try to take them all down?
I get what you're saying but ultimately it's probably not worth taking a stand. If you can make something just as good without some asshole threatening your livelihood over legalese bullshit, that's probably what you should do.
Anything one makes can be enforced by copyright law. If I make a shitty drawing in paint.net and someone uses it without my permission, and there's proof I made it, I can make them stop using it. There's absolutely no reason why anyone would though, unless that person is making a ton of money, then you could get some of that.
The point is they have no legal recourse as this is a fair use project, you are not selling it. If you had some patron only bonus content like some other projects, that would eliminate fair use as a possibility. Sure, they can go through private companies like Patreon to get it taken down as a ToS violation or something stupid like that, and we all know Patreon would comply, but they can't successfully use legal methods such as a court order. At best, they'll go through Patreon and threaten to sue, but a lawsuit would be a very stupid move for them on a fair use project. Any monetary threat is only a scare tactic, nothing more. I would worry more about Patreon taking it down than anything else.
Fakku doesn't own the copyright to HS, Illusion do and they haven't released any statements. This might be a money grab by Fakku.
Another good point. While Fakku is a partner in bringing a few Illusion games to western audiences, that's the furthest their agreement with Illusion goes. They don't hold any rights except distribution of the games themselves to the west. Only Illusion can make any kind of threat unless Illusion themselves authorize Fakku to act on their own. With the lack of statement from Illusion, I do doubt Fakku is authorized to do this. The threat may be legitimately from Fakku, but it holds no power without authorization from Illusion, who themselves purposely made many functions of these games, HS included, to allow people to create renders for their own projects. That's the whole reason the screenshots taken within their games have the watermark, as a sort of advertisement that the render was created using an Illusion product.
I mean just check Fakku's website
Runey, where did you get Honey Select from? If it's not Honey Select Unlimited from Fakku, I don't think they can do anything. If you bought the Japanese version, Illusion is who you'd deal with, not Fakku.
The more I think about this the more sense it makes in my head. I think as long as Illusion doesnt say anything regarding this, fakku is just trying to grab some money from developers that get intimidated by what they tell them.
Fakku is the distributor, Illusion is the developer. It is Illusion who has the copyright and who the license is with. There doesn't seem to be an official license agreement anywhere on either website though.
Exactly, they hold no power over anything not related to the main game for HS on top of the lack of statement from the people who do. Without that statement, authorization to continue by the devs themselves still stands. If Fakku tries something, make a complaint to Illusion.
I never really looked into it, the only reason I know is because I took revenge on a guy doing repacks of Koikatu for striking me for linking a download here on my MEGA account. I made a complaint to both Fakku and Illusion because his repacks were behind a pay wall on Patreon. Now that I think about it, Fakku might have outed themselves here as doing something illegal. I'm starting to get the feeling there is no agreement at all and their own distribution is under a fake pretense of authorization by Illusion, but that is pure speculation unless I find evidence.
The downside is the models are HIDEOUS. I play a few Daz games, such as Lifeplay and Lab Rats 2, and the models in those games are terrifyingly ugly.
There's some major Uncanny Valley shit happening there, for sure.
Daz has A LOT OF POTENTIAL, like Milfy City, Being a DiK, boom Gorgeous models.
I back this up, Fakku is a Publisher and owns no right beyond publishing until proved otherwise.
