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I am intrigued as to the actual copyright or ownership of the entity known as the Foundation,
I'm working on an indie game, a little 2.5d RPG game and I wanted to incorporate a body that is or is similar to the Foundation.
Yet I do not know who to go to on this.
Help?
Also, If this should not be posted here, please direct me to the proper place and I will close the thread and move it.
Just…don't.
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Sorry Sir, I was doing this project and received this idea before I joined up. I've already screwed up once for misinterpreting what I was doing in a previous post (2 am posts FTW!) It would be in my best interest to go over the docs again, i'm fairly sure it would say something on the topic. I haven't implemented it yet, if you want to bring down the Senior Staff's hammer down then by all means I have to follow the order (Don't want to lose my position!!!)
I really don't think this is a good idea.
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Well, i'm open to suggestions and other ideas.
Do something original.
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We use creative commons. It means that you can use stuff from here as long as you attribute it and don't make any profits off of other peoples stuff.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Well that's a start, but how would i accredit the Foundation in the credits?
Who would be attributed?
That is a very complicated question that I don't have an answer to. What exactly are you using from the foundation?
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Names (The Foundation itself and the acronym SCP), Images (the symbol and an O5 Symbol I created in PS), The SCP object that is "Bundle" Or "Slenderman" And terms such as Mobile Task Force, Containment Team, O5, and references to the Alphanumeric combination names of Sites and Objects (Site-19 and SCP-682 are examples of ones that will be used)
…Are you planning on making this a commercial product and selling it for a profit?
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Tsk. Might not matter. We don't have a non-commercial license, so as long as he publishes under Creative Commons in some form, he can sell it if he wants. I think a number of those concepts are specifically licensed thusly, so you would have to put your final work in the Commons but would otherwise be free to sell it. You could credit us in any way you wanted (just "idea based on the SCP Foundation wiki at http://www.scp-wiki.net" or something similar; I don't think there's a rule about how you have to do it).
Indeed. Though remember - CC is viral , so any inclusion of CC-licensed works means the complete resulting work will have to be released under CC license.
It's more complicated, actually - he has to attribute the owner of the copyright.
My understanding, simply put::
#1 Anything you do or create can have works derived from it. You own it, but I can make works based off if it.
#2 The Foundation concept as a whole including the logo, is owned by all of us, but controlled by Senior Staff, which is chosen by the Administration Staff, so they really have final say. Since Gears is the Master Administrator, he is the absolute final word. Fortunately, he rules with a light touch.
#3 Any works derived from The Foundation are owned by their creators, but because of our Creative Commons license you can derive your own works from them. That DOESN'T mean you can put all of Bright's stories together in a book and sell it without his permission. He still owns them. Write your own.
#3a It's considered polite to ask before you write about a character, especially an avatar. Most authors will agree for story purposes posted here, but if you want to sell the work, it would be different.
#4 Abandoned works (or works where the author has disappeared) are considered to be owned by The Foundation, and are stewarded by the Administrators.
So, if you write a book based on The Foundation I can write the sequel, Yoric can write a completely conflicting prequel, Bright can mastermind a movie based on all three, Sorts can retcon it into a comicbook, and Volgun does the radio play.
So, Senior Staff - how much did I get wrong?
aaaand I replied to the wrong person. Whoops!
So, Senior Staff - how much did I get wrong?
You put a K in my name.
That and you neglected to mention that unless I'm much mistaken you cannot use anything listed under a creative commons license for personal profit at all. Oops upscroll. I missed where Eskobar touched on this. Nevermind, I dunno, fsk.
from the link at the bottom of every page of this wiki (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work
to make commercial use of the work
IF you attribute it to the original author in the way they wish to be attributed, provide a link back to the original work, and release your own product under the exact same license (which means SAYING so somewhere rather than operating under the assumption that people know that).
This is all covered in the full text of the license. Failure to do any of these would put you in violation. But yes, attribute properly and you legally can do this.
Not this game, It's an isolated project for a friend of mine who wants to break into the business someday but he wants to see how his idea would play out and I do not want to drop the project (I've already gone however many months into development) It was his idea in the first place to incorporate Slenderman and I thought who better to take out the trans-dimensional being than the Foundation.
You showed up recently and got a lot of flack from the community. It is to your credit that you are still here.
But the bad reaction your intro post got? That will be nothing like the hate and rage you will receive for making something where the Foundation is hunting Slenderman.
It's a bad fucking idea. Like, really, really bad.
Well again, the idea hasn't been implemented yet, if you have a better one though go ahead and shoot. I don't mind! This game won't receive a mass release, and if it does than I have done something right.
Edit: Yeah, i'm not sure why i'm still here, I guess everybody gets one, and I got my one.
Your idea for an RPG based on the Foundation isn't bad, it's just that you chose to go after Slenderman that was horrible. If you replace the non-SCPs with SCPs, then I'd love to see it.
I think if your friend wants to do something to break into the gaming world, it would be MUCH better if he based it on his own works not someone elses. Part of what they look for is original creativity, not the ability to adapt someone elses creation.
His main ideas, my injections and idea prototypes, he wrote out the design document, My job is putting it to the grindstone and sometimes I will write side quests such as this one.
Who knows, maybe Lock N Load Studios might pick up a mini SCP Foundation RPG.
Addendum, i'll probably post a thread for this under General for the part in the game, considering i already got most of an answer.
It would be nice if there was a page i could see the copyrights of the Foundation on somewhere, for reference, but I will take down the answers i got into my doc.
Again, do not do this thing. Do not include the SCP in your RPG. If it can't stand on its own, introducing the Foundation won't help.
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Hella necropost but there's a reason for it.
This thread no longer represents the opinion of staff, so to prevent further confusion I am locking it and moving it to a hidden category.
