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I've been getting this question over and over again throughout the last few weeks I was working on this, so I'm finally posting an official answer.
Some of y'all may have noticed I dropped off the face of the earth for the last three weeks. Those of you on my PATREON know why - I've been working on a semi-secret project.
I was invited to submit to Heat #12 this year. For those of you not in the know, Heat is a publication Sofawolf puts out every year of adult furry erotica. Stories, images, and yes, even a few comics. Being as I haven't had the chance to do a comic for Heat in some time, and I've had the thought of doing the Puck/Ransom backstory as a short comic on backburner for awhile, I naturally combined the two.
'Whiteout' works as a standalone story, although I'll freely admit you'll get a lot more out of it if you're familiar with the characters. It features Puck (Puquanah) the arctic fox with the crazy markings there, and Ransom, the scrubby coyote with the lazy drawl, from my series 'Off the Beaten Path'. It chronicles very briefly how they met, and how they, ah. . . consummated. . . their unusual relationship. And I assure you, Ransom is every bit the romantic you've come to know and love.
The comic is 10 pages long, black and white, and very NSFW. The squeamish might say it has some NC themes, but I wouldn't honestly go that far. Ransom is just the sort who gets what he wants when he wants it, and Puck is very obliging ;)
Heat # 12 will be coming out at Anthrocon this year, and I'm sure it'll be available for purchase online shortly after. I'll post a few other tidbits from this comic between now and then, as well.
If you'd like to read the books these two characters are from, you can find them here -
Off the Beaten Path
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=725
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?s=rukis&.....t_type=product
Lost on Dark Trails
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=769
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?s=rukis&.....t_type=product
Some of y'all may have noticed I dropped off the face of the earth for the last three weeks. Those of you on my PATREON know why - I've been working on a semi-secret project.
I was invited to submit to Heat #12 this year. For those of you not in the know, Heat is a publication Sofawolf puts out every year of adult furry erotica. Stories, images, and yes, even a few comics. Being as I haven't had the chance to do a comic for Heat in some time, and I've had the thought of doing the Puck/Ransom backstory as a short comic on backburner for awhile, I naturally combined the two.
'Whiteout' works as a standalone story, although I'll freely admit you'll get a lot more out of it if you're familiar with the characters. It features Puck (Puquanah) the arctic fox with the crazy markings there, and Ransom, the scrubby coyote with the lazy drawl, from my series 'Off the Beaten Path'. It chronicles very briefly how they met, and how they, ah. . . consummated. . . their unusual relationship. And I assure you, Ransom is every bit the romantic you've come to know and love.
The comic is 10 pages long, black and white, and very NSFW. The squeamish might say it has some NC themes, but I wouldn't honestly go that far. Ransom is just the sort who gets what he wants when he wants it, and Puck is very obliging ;)
Heat # 12 will be coming out at Anthrocon this year, and I'm sure it'll be available for purchase online shortly after. I'll post a few other tidbits from this comic between now and then, as well.
If you'd like to read the books these two characters are from, you can find them here -
Off the Beaten Path
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=725
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?s=rukis&.....t_type=product
Lost on Dark Trails
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=769
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?s=rukis&.....t_type=product
Category Artwork (Digital) / All
Species Unspecified / Any
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You should, unless you like your stuff sold without your permission. There been a bunch of folks reporting un-authorized works on IMVU shop. IMVU does make money on there shop.
I have clicked on a couple links and saw one with your works on it. While one can't do much about re-uploads from users that don't care, commercial profit off it is another matter I would think.
I have clicked on a couple links and saw one with your works on it. While one can't do much about re-uploads from users that don't care, commercial profit off it is another matter I would think.
Link it to me, and I'll look into it. I fail to see how they'd profit off of the low-resolution images I post here, though. And it wouldn't be new. Anyone can try to do that off of any image you post online, if they're desperate enough. I've had it happen many times in the past.
Sorry to dump a huge block of words that aren't at all related to Whiteout, but here's what I've gathered so far, as objectively as possible.
A link will likely not do you much good right now, unfortunately. IMVU puts any adult content behind a paywall. $5 to go through an age verification process, then I believe 20,000 (it seems like that's $20 worth) of their credits (pretend money that they sell to you for microtransactions in their store) to give your account an "access pass" to actually see adult content listed in their store.
As for how they're making money off of the stuff, users can make their own stuff to decorate 3D chatrooms and the horrific 3D barbie dolls that populate said chatrooms, like posters, paintings, t-shirts, etc. The low res stuff you post here is plenty big enough for that. Once these items have been made, users can put them up on IMVU's store to be sold to other users for credits. A cut of those credits goes back to IMVU and the rest go to the user who made the item. Although it really doesn't matter how the credits are split, because you can't cash them back in for real money, so in reality the only real profit belongs to IMVU who initially sold the credits.
Also, these guys really only do the bare minimum that they're legally required to do, so the only way to have them take any action to remove your stuff is to send them a formal DMCA notice. Fortunately, they are kind enough to provide a nice form letter ( http://www.imvu.com/catalog/info/ta.....nnoticehtm.htm ) that you can email to them at DMCA[at]IMVU.com (they may request that you send it via snail mail instead, though).
But UNfortunately, a DMCA is probably useless to you unless you can access the adult stuff behind the paywall to tell them what to take down. Or if you can get a hold of someone who DOES have the access pass and is also willing to sort through the literally hundreds of thousands of results in their shop to find your stuff (I just searched "furry" on their store page and got 304,845 results, and that's without any account whatsoever, paid or not; did I mention that there's no tags for products and that searches only look for a match in the item's title with an option to search by the creator's username or the product ID# instead).
Dragoneer is asking his new boss about the paywall thing, at least ( https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/statu.....11034202619905 ) so we'll see what will come of that.
Granted, IMVU has been existing like this since 2006. We're just now finding out about it because of the buyout. It's up to you to figure out if it's worth digging into further.
Again, sorry for so many words! D:
A link will likely not do you much good right now, unfortunately. IMVU puts any adult content behind a paywall. $5 to go through an age verification process, then I believe 20,000 (it seems like that's $20 worth) of their credits (pretend money that they sell to you for microtransactions in their store) to give your account an "access pass" to actually see adult content listed in their store.
As for how they're making money off of the stuff, users can make their own stuff to decorate 3D chatrooms and the horrific 3D barbie dolls that populate said chatrooms, like posters, paintings, t-shirts, etc. The low res stuff you post here is plenty big enough for that. Once these items have been made, users can put them up on IMVU's store to be sold to other users for credits. A cut of those credits goes back to IMVU and the rest go to the user who made the item. Although it really doesn't matter how the credits are split, because you can't cash them back in for real money, so in reality the only real profit belongs to IMVU who initially sold the credits.
Also, these guys really only do the bare minimum that they're legally required to do, so the only way to have them take any action to remove your stuff is to send them a formal DMCA notice. Fortunately, they are kind enough to provide a nice form letter ( http://www.imvu.com/catalog/info/ta.....nnoticehtm.htm ) that you can email to them at DMCA[at]IMVU.com (they may request that you send it via snail mail instead, though).
But UNfortunately, a DMCA is probably useless to you unless you can access the adult stuff behind the paywall to tell them what to take down. Or if you can get a hold of someone who DOES have the access pass and is also willing to sort through the literally hundreds of thousands of results in their shop to find your stuff (I just searched "furry" on their store page and got 304,845 results, and that's without any account whatsoever, paid or not; did I mention that there's no tags for products and that searches only look for a match in the item's title with an option to search by the creator's username or the product ID# instead).
Dragoneer is asking his new boss about the paywall thing, at least ( https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/statu.....11034202619905 ) so we'll see what will come of that.
Granted, IMVU has been existing like this since 2006. We're just now finding out about it because of the buyout. It's up to you to figure out if it's worth digging into further.
Again, sorry for so many words! D:
Again though, I fail to see how IMVU purchasing this site has anything to do with this. People have been re-posting my stuff all over the internet ever since I started putting it up. I'm aware of that risk, as everyone who posts anything online should be. The sort of micro-sales you're describing are so minor, it really has little to no effect on my business, save putting more of my art out there. I have contracts with my publishers and merchandise producers, and that's for products I personally sell, or high-resolution files or comics I don't want distributed. Past that. . . it's the internet. People take images, re-post them, print them or distribute them at shitty resolutions, and there really isn't a thing you can do to stop it. If I tried to stop everyone who was attempting to make a fake cyber buck off of my art, I'd go crazy.
I make a decent living doing what I'm doing. This really isn't harming me or my business in any way. So don't worry about it for my sake, alright? It really doesn't bother me.
I make a decent living doing what I'm doing. This really isn't harming me or my business in any way. So don't worry about it for my sake, alright? It really doesn't bother me.
Those are pretty much my thoughts as well, which is why I tried to hint at the end that it wasn't really worth it. : p
I've just been wading through the drama all day today with my big ol' bucket of popcorn, enjoying the show. Wanted to share what I knew in case you were interested (since you asked for a link to look into it).
Some folks raise valid concerns about the actual buyout, but really until IMVU actually DOES something, I don't think there's any need for anyone to jump ship.
I've just been wading through the drama all day today with my big ol' bucket of popcorn, enjoying the show. Wanted to share what I knew in case you were interested (since you asked for a link to look into it).
Some folks raise valid concerns about the actual buyout, but really until IMVU actually DOES something, I don't think there's any need for anyone to jump ship.
Here is where to buy the books:
Off the Beaten Path
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=725
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?product=off.....he-beaten-path
Lost on Dark Trails
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=769
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?product=los.....on-dark-trails
And yes, I can confirm she does get royalties.
Off the Beaten Path
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=725
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?product=off.....he-beaten-path
Lost on Dark Trails
Print: http://furplanet.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=769
eBook: http://baddogbooks.com/?product=los.....on-dark-trails
And yes, I can confirm she does get royalties.
Ha. :P yeah, I dunno. I like it when it's done well, but usually more for artistic reasons than yiffy ones. There was a whole brouhaha just now about a Batgirl cover that people thought was "too sexual" with the Joker getting close up on her (nobody complained when he outright grabbed Batman's butt in the Arkham comic though...double standards...)
oh cool. Congratulations of being chosen by Sofawolf.
On the other thing I was talking to you about try this place Incorporate.com for defense versus Mr. IRS and the fact that as an artist you are a defacto service provider.
Only your art is a 'product' the fact that you draw it makes you a service provider not a product production company. Sofawolf is a product production company since they reproduce the artwork for multiple copies of the artwork you created. The only way you might be taxed as a product production company would be if you leased your artwork retaining all reproduction rights when you create it for Sofawolf. The main reason is you have no overhead as a service provider, everything you create is as a service, not a product company.
On the other thing I was talking to you about try this place Incorporate.com for defense versus Mr. IRS and the fact that as an artist you are a defacto service provider.
Only your art is a 'product' the fact that you draw it makes you a service provider not a product production company. Sofawolf is a product production company since they reproduce the artwork for multiple copies of the artwork you created. The only way you might be taxed as a product production company would be if you leased your artwork retaining all reproduction rights when you create it for Sofawolf. The main reason is you have no overhead as a service provider, everything you create is as a service, not a product company.
Here you go, not sure why that link wasn't working - http://baddogbooks.com/?s=rukis&.....t_type=product
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