Ana-Mizuki

This is not to discourage people from selling or buying adoptables or designs. I just want to inform people of the (USA) legality of it all; http://lawyersandliquor.com/2018/09/furry-friday-adoptables-how-the-f-do-they-work/

I don’t like paid adoptables, I truly and utterly think that them being paid makes something that is vague into something misleading. The reason why I have such strong emotions towards them is that you are paying for essentially a licensing fee over something with no use without the license. You are paying for the license to use the character, you do not -own- the said character. To clarify, in copyright law in the US, if you make a design it is yours. Unless you have a written agreement proving otherwise, even if you sell the use of the design to someone else, the design will stay yours and you can in court prove it is yours. Which means that you cannot use any paid adoptable in your original novels, or change the character’s species. Your character only exists within the parameters of the agreement. I’ve seen people justify this situation by pointing out that when you buy say a BMW or an Apple iPhone, you don’t buy the rights to the whole iPhone or the BMW