General Rules (updated: 2018/02/02)

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Deviation Actions

Published: Jul 25, 2012

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1. Foreword

The order to follow is: Creative Commons < General Rules < Special rules on the deviation page < Written permission.
Which means that these rules override certain items of the Creative Commons license, and in turn, the rules stated in the deviation's description may override certain items of this document. Additionally, you may ask for special permissions in a note, but that will only apply to the item in question.

Lack of lingual skills (i.e. not speaking English) is not an excuse. You must fully understand the rules. If you do not understand something, have somebody else who is better at English translate it to you. Do NOT use Google Translate.

Terminology:

MMD: in this case, it also includes MMM.
Third-party application: any application that is not MMD, MMM, or one of their utilities.
Model: a complete character with body, face, hair, and optionally clothes.
Part: an item made specifically to be used as part of a model. Also includes accessories that are attached to the model in MMD.
Stage: a 3D scenery or backdrop.
Commercial purpose: use for sale, or revenue-generating purposes. This includes "charging [people] for the work, not the materials." No exceptions - if money changes hands, it's a commercial purpose.

2. You must:

Credit me when you use my work. See how to do it at the bottom of the document.
Ask me before you edit and redistribute my Models, humanoid and not humanoid alike.
NEW: ask for permission before using my work in MMD-Mall's Model of the Month contest. This is so I can check whether using it would result in disqualification.

3. You may:

Use my work in MMD.
Use my work to create and share pictures and animations in MMD.
Edit my work.
Distribute your finished* model that has my work on it. Crediting is necessary.

_{* Finished: base + hair + complete outfit + accessories}

5. You may NOT:

Use my work for commercial purposes.
Claim my work as yours.
Redistribute, sell or resell my original work.
Sell a Part or a Model that includes my work.
Use a part of my Models or Stages in your own, unless I give you permission.
Distribute a Part based on my work or a part of it, unless I give you permission.
Special restriction (in effect from the 15th of March, 2015): you may not use any of my works in pictures, videos, models and deviations featuring characters from or based on the following franchises (the list may change in the future):

None - all special restrictions have been removed.

6. Third-party applications

The rules above, plus the following:
You are allowed to convert my work to third-party formats (such as OBJ or 3DS) for private purposes.
You are allowed to create and share pictures or animations made in third-party applications using my work.
You are NOT allowed to share my work that you had converted to a third-party format.

This includes sharing through multiplayer games that allow you to load and display custom models to other players, such as (but not limited to) Second Life and VRChat.