Illusion's website says Fakku sells HSU.
That's all in the skill of the modeler.
Fakku is the authorised distributor for the English speaking world. If you try to buy HS from Illusion and you aren't in Japan, that's where you get redirected to.
I wouldn't say we hold a fair use license, it's more like we are within the provisions for fair use listed in the copyright act itself, but absolutely. Bring this to the media and Illusion will catch wind and respond, hopefully in a positive way for us.
That confirms my suspicion of a ruse is unfounded, still, no authorization beyond distribution rights from Illusion means they may still be treading thin ice as far as what they are authorized to do. An actual statement from Illusion, the sole copyright holder, would clear that up.
Mate, you mind removing that shit? Looks like a child.
To a degree, there are exceptions for fair use, parody, and so on.
Well, if they can only sell the HS Unlimited, then them asking people to not use any Illusion material is wrong. And if that is the case, then you always use one of their others, such as Play Home, which seems to be about the same in a lot of ways, I don't see 'fakku' anywhere on it, and I assume it uses the same assets/character cards.
As I said they seem to point out different Illusion assets, the thing is they don't even own Koikatsu, Koikatsu Part! is even on steam.
Exactly, this is a "scare people into paying" scam and nothing else until there is word from the copyright holder, which is nobody else but Illusion. Hell, the threatened devs could even get Fakku in trouble by contacting Illusion. I'm half tempted to do it myself.
Nothing is happening, if anything does happen, Runey will be the first to say something.
Read the discussion above. To sum it up, Fakku is using a scare tactic under the guise of their partnership with Illusion, which is only for distribution in the west for Honey Select. No other program or version not distributed by Fakku is within their jurisdiction to control because they were only given the rights for the English version of Honey Select and only to distribute it. As it stands, there has been no word and therefore no change in the policy authorizing devs like Runey to use Honey Select as said devs have been from Illusion, the people with actual permission to change that policy. Without actual authorization from Illusion, Fakku is only trying to scare people into paying, which is by definition a scam like those Windows pop ups that lock your browser up and tell you to call a number. Further evidence is the owner of Fakku, Jacob's, willingness to let people continue if they pay him what I can only assume is a huge sum of money, which is, as far as I can tell since he doesn't seem to be authorized to do this by Illusion, extortion and a textbook case of it on top of that.
Either him or one of the other dozens of HS users developing a game on here.
thats not quite how it works for games. like in grand theft auto for example. when you buy the game and use the in game recorder rockstar has a limited use dealie set up so if you upload that video and its playing a copyrighted song in the game then it wont be taken down as long as its paired with GTA itself. one of the devs explained it like 3 or 4 years ago.
quite frankly i did the one thing i dont think anyone has done yet, i went to the illusion website. there is little information and its all sort of vague with how meh google translates. the way its read only the images on the website are subject to the sort of copyright fakku is describing. and the page that re-directs to fakku calls them "representatives" of illusion
