Copyright Infringment in Design Contest!

[Randelmire]

Keep in mind we are not talking about sueing those who submitted copied stuff...

[Alhanelem]

You know very well what SE do when players report RMTs..... almost nothing. We don't even know if the message sent to support will reach the people taking care of the contest.

You know very well that this isn't RMT we're talking about, and it's actually completely not true that they don't do anything about RMT reports. SE bans them, they make new accounts, rinse and repeat. It's not that they aren't doing anything, it's that it's an endless cycle.

At least, if it's posted on the forums and people are aware of it, they can give their vote to more original designs.

That's all well and good, but if people want to make legal complaints, they make those complaints directly to the parties involved, not just posting on a forum and going NYA NYA DONT VOTE THIS ONE HE CHEATER.

[Punainen]

There is no copyright infringement. SE is allowed to use its own design, and the second design you speak of is a common and non-copyrighted design. Just because a very similar ring exists, doesn't make it copyrighted design. Plain band rings already exist...would it have been infringement to submit a plain band? No. The design needs to belong to one particular person/company before it can be considered infringement.

[Anonymoose]

OH LAWD, HE'S RIGHT.





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I kid, I kid.

[Evil-Siren]

Ring number 5 in the design a gear contest, is a blantant copy not only in concept but in execution, where symmetry is not entierely Identycal the general concept stands, the design ripped off the five feather points from the one winged angel ring the generall form of the ring is there as well as the center gem piece, texture and silver coating is the same as well in a contest where creativity is being rewarded i think finalist entries such as this only hurt the credibility and seriousness of it, and the worst thing is the design of SE.

http://cdn.highwire.com/374405_290.jpg

I'm sorry to read that, but actually I got inspired by those rings and wings:
http://www.ideatattoo.com/blog/wp-co...rlazzi_112.jpg
http://ua-cdn.stylecaster.com/post/2...er-preview.jpg
http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0...=1201239432000
http://anitako.com/assets/wings_fan_2.jpg
http://www.princeofdiamonds.org/catalog/tn_rinoa.jpg
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/...6L._SS424_.jpg

The ring I designed before I sent in the black phoenix ring, was even a white one called salvation ring. http://b.pictureupload.us/110862460950596f81e6034.jpg
(don't mind the crappy look of it, it was unfinished that time)

I had to change the colours of it after the dev team told us that we could only enter with one ring. So I changed the WHM ring into a BLM ring.
I'm sorry if the ring resembles too much of the Sephiroth ring now or if you don't find it original enough. If you don't like it just don't vote for it I'd say. It's just kind of unfair to make such a thread and tell everybody to not vote for some kind of rings because they look like this and that and that and this.

[Ingolf]

I voted for your ring. I'm sure most people just ignored him.

[Evil-Siren]

I voted for your ring. I'm sure most people just ignored him.

Thanks, but I just wanted to explain how I came to my ring design since he/she said so many mean things about it. =(

The WHM ring was my second idea and I wanted to create an angelic ring for it. Which means I wanted it do be a wing ring with a gemstone. I thought the idea of the wings carrying the gemstone carefully, resembles the whm who care for their group. I wanted it to be white and blue since it was for WHITE mages and blue should resemble water, which means life (well that was the basic idea behind it)

after the dev team said "only one ring per person" I thought "Oh ... damn I can't really need a whm ring" lol

I thought the change from whm to a more blm looking one would be nice too and tells even a little story. especially the name fit for it. since the ffxiv world will be destroyed by a big RED meteor and everyone will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Why not a full red ring? Well it wouldn't look good and since BLM stands for Destruction I thought the opposite of white would fit perfectly (sorry for my lousy english >__<)

[Guevara]

Thanks, but I just wanted to explain how I came to my ring design since he/she said so many mean things about it. =(

The WHM ring was my second idea and I wanted to create an angelic ring for it. Which means I wanted it do be a wing ring with a gemstone. I thought the idea of the wings carrying the gemstone carefully, resembles the whm who care for their group. I wanted it to be white and blue since it was for WHITE mages and blue should resemble water, which means life (well that was the basic idea behind it)

after the dev team said "only one ring per person" I thought "Oh ... damn I can't really need a whm ring" lol

I thought the change from whm to a more blm looking one would be nice too and tells even a little story. especially the name fit for it. since the ffxiv world will be destroyed by a big RED meteor and everyone will rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Why not a full red ring? Well it wouldn't look good and since BLM stands for Destruction I thought the opposite of white would fit perfectly (sorry for my lousy english >__<)

Your ring was my second favourite so it didn't get my vote. But still I, as many many others, think that yours was a fantastic work =)

[Kyumin]

Haters gonna hate.



I voted for your ring as well.

[Mijin]

I hate to break it to you guys, but a ring design contest for an mmo with under 100k subs isn't serious business, and no ones getting sued here lol... As for them not being original of course they're not. Probably like 90% of the people who bothered with this contest just googled "rings," and then found an image they liked to copy, so what? People do this sort of thing all the time, even people who make -real- jewelry for example copy each other I'm sure. As long as they didn't just copy an image, erase the watermark, and recolor it, I don't see what the problem is. Who cares about this anyway?