CCP could use their ressources more efficiently, if they wanted just the dough.įeel free to explain why you think this is wrong. The only one in this chain who really makes a bit of profit is the print shop. They have a limited amount of people who will buy it, they can’t drive up the price too much or people won’t buy and they have a bunch of man-hours for running the contest (writing the Dev Blog, looking at submissions, having a lawyer take a look at it, ordering the prints, selling the stuff etc.). I worked in advertisement campaigns for a while and I can tell you that CCP will not be printing 10k copies, so the production price per poster will be high. Feel free to explain to me in detail how you think they can “turn a tidy profit” on these. No need to be sorry dude, everyone has some job. Meanwhile, the artist may get some prizes at some point (nothing officially laid in stone). They’ll have no problem turning a tidy profit on these. Sorry, I was in the publishing industry for a decade. Then again, the possible price being a good bit lower than any normal payment for a design, could make it clear enough that no one is lead into giving up value for the hopes to making bank. Asking participants to hand over ownership of their intellectual property with the promise of maybe being compensated, could be seen as gambling. That being said, I’m not sure this contest would be entirely legal in my country. You can’t fit payment for goods and the nature of a contest together, without getting in trouble with the applicable laws. Now this is important: Only after that, after CCP already owns the design, they can decide to grant you a prize coming from the EVE ecosystem. You’re not being compensated at all, you are granting all rights to your content (possibly using CCPs copyrighted materials) for free. All designs submitted become the property of CCP and can be used in any way the company wants, forever, across all known and yet-to-be-invented media. Upon submission, you waive all rights you may have to the submitted design and grant CCP an irrevocable right to own, use, or edit the design without further compensation to you. So basically you’re licensing my poster design and compensating me with $180 of in-game credits that can be used for SKINs and merchandise (not including shipping, which means the merchandise portion is virtually worthless if not redeemed in-person).
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