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Hey, Gaia! How ya doing? It's been a while since I stuck my neck out in SF other than posting in the occasional thread. I thought you were doing a bit better.

I'm starting to get tired of being wrong.

Oh...how am I? Well funny you should ask. I'm pretty dang upset actually. Angry even, irate, furious!

No need to ask why. I know you don't care, I'm a user and one who doesn't spend money here so I don't matter. Don't worry, you've made that clear.

Get to the point you say? Well sure thing. I understand you have some more things to ripoff, more people to disappoint and probably more legal letters to send before going to dive into your pit of money.

Let's start the feedback shall we?
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For the sake of the users I'll give a rundown on what's happened recently. Gaia interactive sent a cease and desist letter to the owner of Tektek, ordering that the site be pulled down on the grounds of copyright infringement. Now Tektek has been around since 2004 and Gaia has been aware of it to the point of advertising it in their welcome fairy messages. Never before have they seemed to have issue with tektek. Unfortunately that is apparently no longer the case.

Background done.

So Gaia, Since you're experts on copyright law I'm absolutely positive that you had absolutely no intention of flirting so closely with breaking it yourselves. Surely these designs and the will to make them came only from your own minds inspired by nothing but creativity and certainly not by profiting off of fan fever.

Let's see.

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Okay, commentary will take too long. Let's just separate by franchise shall we.

Pokemon - Since this is your biggest moneymaker "inspiration" lately we'll start here.
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Here's another one that you so abuse, especially in the hair department.
Final Fantasy
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One of the most popular franchises of all time that you ripoff
Naruto
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Sherlock

Supernatural
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Dr. Who

star wars
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Star trek

Other
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Please feel free to add to this list Gaians. I am going back to bed for now but I will certainly be adding to it later. If you do add, please include a reference picture for me. I don't get all of the references, especially anime ones!

Try to refrain from listing items that COULD just be "inspired by" and try to list only items that are direct copies.

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And that's just SOME of the blatant ripoffs you guys have sold for REAL DAMN MONEY. The only difference between you guys and Tekton was that his site was better at being Gaia than Gaia is and it was still free.

Until you guys can come up with a dream avi creator that actually works, sorts by colour and type and doesn't require me to know the name of every damn item you guys put out every single day, you've screwed most of your users over. Congrats.

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Yes I am aware that Gaia is not stating copyright infringement as their reason for shutting down tektek in their ridiculous staff notice. However, their letter to Tekton states otherwise.

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" A Houngan is wandering, away from its swarm. "



              ||| The older cosplay tributes like the Ninja band had changes made though, so technically it's considered fair since it's not exact replica. The general concept was there, yeah, but they weren't so blatant. Even the Umbreon and Espeon Human items aren't identical copies to their original source. They mimic the look, but they're not copy + paste like that Xumbreon skin. (Even the name on that one...)

              Gaia does seem to be pushing the limits these days moreso than they used to, though, and I'm not impressed by it.



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Please feel free to add to this list Gaians. I am going back to bed for now but I will certainly be adding to it later.

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Wow..."Where to begin?" is the better question here. But here's a few just off the top of my scruffy head...

Kill Bill
Suckerpunch
Resident Evil
DBZ
Death Note (...yes, I have them)
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Silent Hill
Devil (movie)
The Ring (and its Japanese origins)
The Beatles
Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter's version)

...and so on and so on...

Now...if you actually had the oh-so important license to create/make a profit off of said items, then good, no harm, no foul. But if you did not...Hmmmmmmmm...

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I would imagine the biggest difference here is that Tektek uses the exact images (how could it not sjnce it is a Gaia dream avatar creator)belonging to Gaia as opposed to parodies or 'tributes' this site seems to specialize in. I think Tekton knew the nature of his relationship with Gaia all this time but has enjoyed prolonged immunity from certain scrutiny for a decade. I'm not sure what changed between Tekton and Gaia, but I agree that it's not the best thing that could have happened. I do hope Gaia has a Plan B.

I wonder if the owners of Ghostbusters will send me a C&D order. I'm a tribute/parody dammit. crying

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Don't forget the Tokyo Ghoul, and Doctor Who items

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I was mentally facepalming myself to find out the notice to Tektek... but ye, Homestruck is the biggest ripoff from a freelance artist I recall. And well, I posted this on a Pokemon thread before, but...
I'm pretty sure they took from another artist, since this image below was someone's gijinka from 2011. Does one look nearly identical? Quite so.

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Don't forget the Tokyo Ghoul, and Doctor Who items


If the BBC decide to sue for infringement of that copyright and trademark...... Gaia is most likely going down faster than a ******** in Jupiter's gravity.

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I was mentally facepalming myself to find out the notice to Tektek... but ye, Homestruck is the biggest ripoff from a freelance artist I recall. And well, I posted this on a Pokemon thread before, but...
I'm pretty sure they took from another artist, since this image below was someone's gijinka from 2011. Does one look nearly identical? Quite so.

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Wow.... that's.... yup. I see what you're saying here.

This whole thing is ridiculous. Gaia is being pretty hypocritical here and even if they say it's a coincidence, it's a pretty freaking big one. 8'D

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I know I've got a breaking bad item that I know isn't public domain yet.

Tektek is good advertising for Gaia. People figure out what they want their Gaia avi too look like on tektek, then quest for those items and build that avi here on Gaia.

It occurs to ma, this evolution of Gaias greed; they're not worried about copyright, what they're worried about is people who can't afford Gaia items making avis on tektek that they wouldnt otherwise have had immediate access too.

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