Legal questions about game like Something Unlimited

[ablackcatman]

So is that really legal - using characters like that?

And what if the game would be 3d with interactive characters, would that be somehow different?

 

[rk-47]

Different copyright rules for different countries
But i dont think f95 is a common platform to even be found by creators of the heroes, not to mention its simply artwork used in a lewd manner, and the artist isnt claiming to be the creator of the characters

 

[cooldude33]

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know much about these things, but I believe these would be considered parodies, which fall under Fair Use. In general from what I've seen, as long as your adult parody is not tarnishing the reputation and doesn't mess with the profits of the original work, the companies don't really care and seem to be pretty lenient when it comes to 2D art.

It's different with 3D characters, however, especially if you use models exported from the original game.
I think that's why certain hentai sites changed certain words like "Overwatch" to "Overlook" or something else. Blizzard really didn't want anyone making 3D porn of their characters.They realized fighting this is futile and just kind of gave up after a while.
Companies have realized there's basically no point in fighting adult parodies. A waste of time and money, and cease and desist letters and threats of suing are not going to stop the guy who lives in a third world country from drawing smut of your work. They're just going to change names and continue as usual.

 

[DSSAlex]

Almost entirely, sex parody games fly under the radar. Very few make significant amounts of money. As a rule comics publishers don't pay too much attention to adult fan art semi on purpose (a huge portion of artists they actually hire have produced adult fan art, down to and including Joe Shuster [co-creator of Superman]). In the past they've enforced their IP to a stronger degree but it usually buys them ill will with artists, bad PR with fans and provides PR for the adult parody. I'm not sure how much Something Unlimited is making but if it made significant money I would expect Warner Brothers to come calling. But even then it would be pretty easy to file off the serial numbers and make original characters do-not-steal of existing characters and that's an extremely comic book thing to do.