Is VN style patented yet?

[Trakzer]

I'm thinking on making a VN based heavily on Hooked from BlenderKnight and I'm planning on copying his art style as much as I can but I'm not sure how safe is that.
Ps: I'm not planning on hurting his income in any way, it's mostly an inspiration sort of thing and a slight relief from all the months it takes him to add new content to his absolute banger of a game... I love it so much.

 

[lfgals1]

You can't really legally protect a style. Just the specific designs.

That being said, BlenderKnight is absurdly good at what he does. Which is why his style looks so good. It will be pretty hard to copy in a way that looks good.

 

[DumpTruckLover]

It would be much better to be inspired and create your own style than to copy it.

 

[anne O'nymous]

Short answer to your question:

Unless explicitly specified otherwise, every fucking thing you create is your legal property and benefit from all the legal protections that come with it.
So, if you strictly copy his style, and if the said style is really explicitly different, standing out of everything else, and if he want it, he can perfectly sue you, patents or not.

But, if his style is just different, but not really much, then you can't patent it, because it's not something new. Assumed that the said style can be patented, what isn't even guaranty since you can patent a process, but not a result.

 

[Insomnimaniac Games]

Unless explicitly specified otherwise, every fucking thing you create is your legal property and benefit from all the legal protections that come with it.
So, if you strictly copy his style, and if the said style is really explicitly different, standing out of everything else, and if he want it, he can perfectly sue you, patents or not.

I'm not so sure on this. I don't read lawyer, but from

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it seems you would need to both copy the style, as well as the specific expression of the original artists piece. You'd basically need to make a near-enough copy of an original piece to violate copyright. I might be misinterpreting, anyone who speaks better lawyer than me (lookin at you, Count) please correct me.

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[anne O'nymous]

[...] it seems you would need to both copy the style, as well as the specific expression of the original artists piece. [...]

It's what the "standing out of everything else" part were, poorly, trying to cover.

It need to be really, really, [tons of "really"], really, unique. If it isn't, you own the rights over the individual drawings, but not over the style. What also imply that OP can not protect the said style.