Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
Takes like this are exactly why I don’t share my art as an artist. If you didn’t put your time, energy, and acquired knowledge into it, it’s not yours. End of story.
Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
Law =/= morality. Either way, creative works get inherent copyright once they’re created as far as I understand it. You don’t need to apply for it. Since this is within a video game, might get weird but it isn’t fair to say artists shouldn’t share their work because of people who can’t keep their hands to themselves. Imagine spending hours on something just to never be able to share it because someone will pass it as their own, possibly becoming popular off your work. Takes like this are exactly why I don’t share my art as an artist. If you didn’t put your time, energy, and acquired knowledge into it, it’s not yours. End of story.
katanagirl1 wrote: »Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
In this case, someone has commissioned a decorator to build a custom house for them. The player who owns the house is not the person who designed it. There is no way for the designer to control access, and indeed the idea is to showcase the house so others can see it or use it, if it is a guild house.
I completely agree some change needs to be made here. I wouldn’t want someone copying my work, not that I am a well-respected decorator whose work is highly desired. My creations are coarse and basic compared to the images above. My time and creativity is still valuable to me.
katanagirl1 wrote: »Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
In this case, someone has commissioned a decorator to build a custom house for them. The player who owns the house is not the person who designed it. There is no way for the designer to control access, and indeed the idea is to showcase the house so others can see it or use it, if it is a guild house.
I completely agree some change needs to be made here. I wouldn’t want someone copying my work, not that I am a well-respected decorator whose work is highly desired. My creations are coarse and basic compared to the images above. My time and creativity is still valuable to me.
The person “commissioned” has received their payment. It’s not their property to decide what can be done with it or who can access it.
Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
PrincessOfThieves wrote: ».katanagirl1 wrote: »Housing designs aren’t copyrighted. If you don’t want your housing design duplicated, don’t let anyone into your home you don’t trust and don’t share photos/videos.
If you want to showcase your home you risk others replicating it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Take it as a compliment and carry on.
In this case, someone has commissioned a decorator to build a custom house for them. The player who owns the house is not the person who designed it. There is no way for the designer to control access, and indeed the idea is to showcase the house so others can see it or use it, if it is a guild house.
I completely agree some change needs to be made here. I wouldn’t want someone copying my work, not that I am a well-respected decorator whose work is highly desired. My creations are coarse and basic compared to the images above. My time and creativity is still valuable to me.
The person “commissioned” has received their payment. It’s not their property to decide what can be done with it or who can access it.
The person who commissioned the build wanted to buy something unique, otherwise why would they pay an artist?
Hi @Mloking. We’re going to take this to the dev team and chat about this. Just seeing this now, so probably won’t be able to investigate until next week. Just wanted to follow up that this has been seen and will be escalated to be addressed.
Thanks for posting this.
katanagirl1 wrote: »@Ayalockheart I mentioned commissions merely because it is more egregious to copy those. Like you, I don’t condone copying any other works as well.
I agree, my point is that a commission is still not a free blueprint that everyone can use.I don’t understand why the focus of the discussion is shifting or why it matters whether it’s a commission or not. It doesn't justify copying and pasting something at the press of a button. No one mentioned copyright; the issue is about morality and consideration, which translates to community toxic behavior.
ThelerisTelvanni wrote: »
Yet if for some reason someone were to copy your work and after you were showing it around that person was claiming to be the original creator, at that point I'd agree we'd have a problem.
PrincessOfThieves wrote: »And they could just make it so the copy/paste feature doesn't work in other people's houses unless you have a decorator permission. This way, if someone just wants to copy stuff for rp/personal purposes, they could contact the author, and plagiarism would be prevented. There is just no good reason to keep this function as it is now.
This makes me hate add ons even more. A fully copied build is impersonal, hollow and meaningless to me. Not done by the player, with the player or for the player. If this is the level of engagement you have with housing you might as well skip it. Crazy to see people rather using add ons for so many things instead of actually playing the game...
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »This makes me hate add ons even more. A fully copied build is impersonal, hollow and meaningless to me. Not done by the player, with the player or for the player. If this is the level of engagement you have with housing you might as well skip it. Crazy to see people rather using add ons for so many things instead of actually playing the game...
People copy character builds most of the time when creating new toons. What's the difference? I'd bet everyone complaining in this thread about people copying housing builds are running toons with builds they copied at least in part from someone else.
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »This makes me hate add ons even more. A fully copied build is impersonal, hollow and meaningless to me. Not done by the player, with the player or for the player. If this is the level of engagement you have with housing you might as well skip it. Crazy to see people rather using add ons for so many things instead of actually playing the game...
People copy character builds most of the time when creating new toons. What's the difference? I'd bet everyone complaining in this thread about people copying housing builds are running toons with builds they copied at least in part from someone else.
Hi @Mloking. We’re going to take this to the dev team and chat about this. Just seeing this now, so probably won’t be able to investigate until next week. Just wanted to follow up that this has been seen and will be escalated to be addressed.
Thanks for posting this.
SaffronCitrusflower wrote: »This makes me hate add ons even more. A fully copied build is impersonal, hollow and meaningless to me. Not done by the player, with the player or for the player. If this is the level of engagement you have with housing you might as well skip it. Crazy to see people rather using add ons for so many things instead of actually playing the game...
People copy character builds most of the time when creating new toons. What's the difference? I'd bet everyone complaining in this thread about people copying housing builds are running toons with builds they copied at least in part from someone else.
I just want to underscore, as some people have pointed out, this is a ZOS issue not an EHT issue that became an issue when Inspect Mode became a thing.
Cardinal05 the volunteer addon creator changing the addon would only do so much good. Older copies of EHT exist and anyone with a little bit of lua knowledge could copy that functionality into a new public or private addon. If people took the time & effort to install and use EHT to "steal" house designs, they'll sure find a way to get an old copy or new addon that does the same thing.
Cardinal05 the ZOS housing dev is who we need. Inspect needs to be a TOGGLE, that homeowners can turn on or off, built into the game. Or get rid of it entirely. This game doesn't have an "inspect" mode even to look at player gear but we have it for housing creations? Why?
For those straying to rag on EHT for other reasons, let's remember that's what got Cardinal hired by ZOS and that's what got us improvements to house editing/building built into the game.