causticsugar wrote:would love to see it happen!
as for concern re: legal issues, this would only be an issue with the cards utilizing the exact same linework/artwork - derivative artworks used for the cards would fall under fair use just like any other fanwork, fanzine, fan merch, etc that exists... which is what they should be doing any way, idk if i would buy a booster pack of cards that were just a copy-paste of the pngs on the site.
additionally, the odds of one of the artists who designed, say, the mime gupps trying to sue (let alone WINNING such a case) is very low: civil liability cases such as this one only work out in the claimant's favor if you can prove some sort of damage was incurred (in this case, monetary), and i don't think an artwork using lineart that often wasn't even the artist's to begin with, done for FREE in the first place, could prove any significant loss. the claimaint would be risking a lot of money in legal fees for little or no reward: there's no way these cards would generate a sizeable enough profit for even a small claims court, given the relatively small size of the chickensmoothie community. i'd also like to imagine none of the artists who have volunteered and were a part of the cs community to go out of their way to ruin such a positive little project idea in the first place.
another potential loophole could be making it a charity project! just like fanzines, people will place pre-orders so that during the production stage, there isn't a surplus made (ie there won't be an issue of unsold packs sitting somewhere taking space). all funds could be donated to an animal-related charity organization. :3
i think it'd be a cool idea!!!
I agree with the idea of making it a charity project - the people involved in making it happen only keeping enough of the money to pay for the making, designing, printing and distributing of the cards, the rest of the money going to some charity, probably animal related.
