Copyright Infringment in Design Contest!

[Alhanelem]

I wanted to point out that I believe this is untrue, unless I am mistaken and my art teacher is in a whole hurt of trouble, a person may use copyrighted/trademarked property as an educational tool or for personal use as long as no profit or gains are to be made. Fanfiction, cosplay and similar art forms all fall under this category.

Actually, SE can still cease and desist people making fan art if they want to. They simply choose to allow it / ignore it. If you called up SE and asked for permission to make a model of one of their characters (or whatever else), they would say "no, we don't grant permissions to individuals." (Believe me, I've tried). However, because fan art is usually good publicity for them, they generally do not pursue action against anybody unless they are profiting off it.

However, you don't have to make money to violate a copyright. < this is very important. Copyright violations are not defined by money changing hands.

If you are not defending it, what are you doing?

I'm explaining the proper course of action to take. Pointing fingers on the forums is not that proper course.

Exactly.. and a good example. So we kind of agree about the copyrights, but you would go a different way to direct it to SE?!

Do i get that right?

Yes. specifically, to the person(s) responsible for the contest and enforcing its legalese.