Spiral Knights - Question About Screenshots

Question About Screenshots

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Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:02

Caika

I'm sure there was a thread for this somewhere, but I can't find it. :(

Anyways, I was wondering was the policy was on posting screenshots (NOT fanart) outside of the Spiral Knights forums. In the Terms of Service, it says that it is illegal to "reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, translate, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, deconstruct, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble in any manner Spiral Knights or any portion thereof, including but not limited to any character, graphic, associated software or proprietary communications protocol used by the software or any utilities, applications, emulators or tools derived therefrom". HOWEVER, I have found screenshots on places like Google, Photobucket, etc. and even a few on DeviantART. 0_o

Would someone be liable for punishment by posting screenshots of their character outside of the forums? Just curious. :)

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:06

Orangeo

I wouldn't think so. Sure

I wouldn't think so. Sure three rings could, but they're nice people :3

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:36

Mr-Spiral-Knight

errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

ooooooooooooook

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:42

Orangeo

My thoughts exactaly. I don't

My thoughts exactaly. I don't think anyone like posieden would care if you posted a screenshot. In fact, it's free advretisement.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:47

Lufte

When you take a screenshot

When you take a screenshot you are not deconstructing, reverse engineering, decompiling nor disassembling anything.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 13:36

Bopp

implicitly copyrighted

I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that by creating Spiral Knights Three Rings/Sega has implicitly copyrighted it. The copyright includes screen shots. So it seems that posting them elsewhere is generally illegal. Of course, there are some exceptions (fair use), and I can't speak to whether Three Rings/Sega would be upset if you posted them.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 13:39

Mr-Spiral-Knight

bopp

how cute the magic set looks
*pets*
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 15:25

Caika

@Bopp

Hmm, I'll have to look into that "fair use" thing, just in case.

And when I quoted to the ToS, I meant the "reproduce [or] publicly display...in any manner Spiral Knights or any portion thereof, including but not limited to any character [or] graphic" part. Just FYI. ;)

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@Mr-Spiral-Knight: "errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ooooooooooooook" isn't very helpful, you know. -_-

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 15:56

Mr-Spiral-Knight

caika

ok yeah but i have a sexy hat ^ _^

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 21:28

Mejezfeld

Consider the policy on the other websites as well.

Videogame screenshots aren't permitted on deviantART.

Though I suppose you can use the scrapbook if you really need to.

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 15:59

#10

Caika

@Mejezfeld

Oh, I know. I'm not the one putting up screenshots on dA. Screenshots alone would be too dull for an actual deviation, anyways. >_<

I was thinking of using part of a screenshot in one of my fanart pieces, though. That's why I'm asking.

Hmm...

Do you think I should ask one of the admins about this??

Wed, 10/05/2011 - 16:30

#11

Algol-Sixty

When you take a screenshot

When you take a screenshot you are not deconstructing, reverse engineering, decompiling nor disassembling anything.

Aww, so close. You are right, the quoted part of the ToS are not being violated, but you snipped the parts that are. The whole section of the ToS says:

6. Restrictions. You agree not to do any of the following prohibited actions: 1. .reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, translate, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, deconstruct, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble in any manner Spiral Knights or any portion thereof, including but not limited to any character, graphic, associated software or proprietary communications protocol used by the software or any utilities, applications, emulators or tools derived therefrom;

Publishing screen shots are "public display {... of... } Spiral Knights {....} graphics". Yeah, long sentence there, most of hit snipped, but that is the key part.

Now, I suspect OOO really doesn't care about a few screen shots here and there. However, if you start putting screen shots on t-shirts, use lot of screen shots to make a story (and use banner ads to earn money off that story), etc., OOO might start caring.

The only way to be certain what OOO's position is, is to ask a ringer, players on the forums can only give educated guesses.

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