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So you are telling me, theoretically, that a signature in a forum, or perhaps when people create spongebob or mario on the call of duty emblems, that they are putting the game/forum owners at risk to be sued because some player created a graphic that resembled their stuff?
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Content that is not curated and purely user-generated is usually covered by safe harbor provisions in copyright law (such as the DMCA). If a company stated that their copyrighted material was being used as a forum signature (and it was the truth), then the company would be required to remove that image from their site.
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The whole "Graal receives all rights after uploading heads" could be the culprit right? If so, that is a stupid term of agreement and should be erased. There is no reason for me to give up all rights to a head when uploading to Graal. Graal really does not have much to gain from this. Are they planning on stealing all of our graphics one day to create a whole new game that the entire graal community pixel art'd for them
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A lot of Graal is, at one level or another, user-submitted content. Graal City, MoD Town, Onnet Town, and Swamp Town contain most of the past player content that's been brought to the present. A lot of the houses you see on the overworld from those places are actually player-submiited houses (and there are a lot more of them than what's on the current map). What's with the all rights portion is a legal strategy called CYA. Developers have reused player-submitted content before. They've been threatened with lawsuits from players before.
For the content that I've created that's still available on Graal, I'm more flattered than anything else that it has been reused.