Guild Wars 2

Darkorical.9213:

Alright finally got the better picture.

Over the weekend my guild did its weekly guild missions and I offered it as a prize for our drawing with the stipulation
numbers 1-100 were chosen who ever got closest would get a vinyl version(with no tatters) but if someone got the number exactly they would get the satin one. I assumed it would take a few drawings before someone got the satin one well it was won and is on its way to its new home already.

I have been contacted by a couple people from other guilds asking about getting one made for their guild. While I would love to do this I cannot do it for free and I figure there is some legal issues with selling copy-written material, can someone direct me to anything that may clarify the situation on how I could or why I could not do this?

That really is lovely — great job! We have no problem with you making that because it’s for private, personal, non-profit use. I note that you had the courtesy of submitting a support ticket to ask about selling copies of this calendar. Thank you for that — it’s much appreciated that you asked!

Please note the Content Terms of Use on this link: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-content-terms-of-use/. As you can see, creating materials using our copyright material to sell is not allowed. This is to prevent capitalization of our products and our intellectual property and even competition with our own merchandise. (As you can imagine, it wouldn’t be cool for a manufacturer to start selling a GW2 keyboard when we already have a fine partnership with a major manufacturer for fully-authorized merchandise.)

You’re welcome to contact our Community Team to discuss this further. Their address is Community@Arena.Net.

Shirk.6421:

Yup, he said people wanted to buy them but he canot give them out fo free – sure – he has to pay the transport and the materials. If this are the things getting charged for I guess it wouldn’t be a problem because it’s not for profit.

I appreciate that you want to help, but it would be very difficult for an external review to ascertain exact shipping and production costs. Saying “I made 100 and sold them at cost” is not an easily defended position in relation to copyright law, particularly when ones notes the exact verbiage of the permission within the Content Terms of Use:

The content must be used in a non-commercial context for private, personal use only

Ask yourself, “How is sending or giving a product based on copyright materials to someone else either private or personal?”

I rather suspect that no one in this thread is in a position to give a legitimate, legally-accurate response. I know that I certainly cannot add “J.D.” after my name. Let’s be accurate and refer those who are asking about this to the actual legal document, which makes the permissions very clear: Content Terms of Use.