A surprisingly obscure fact is that all Piapro characters are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Unported license. I've found surprisingly few mentions of this on the internet. And furthermore, the few that do often have misconceptions.

One misconception is that the original artwork is under the CC-BY-NC 3.0 but the character design is not. This is obviously untrue if you do a little bit of thinking. If this were the case, the original image would be a derivative work of the character design and distribution would require meeting the licenses of both. So in effect, it would be no different than any random artist releasing their derivative work of a Piapro character into whatever free or not free license they choose.

The second misconception is that they are under a modified version of the CC-BY-NC that imposes additional restrictions. I think this misconception arises from Q11 on this FAQ (https://piapro.net/intl/en_for_creators.html): "When you copy or modify the Characters, please do not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the Characters that would be prejudicial to Crypton's honor or reputation (please see Section 4e. of the full license). Some examples of prohibited uses include use in an overly violent context or in a sexual context."

However this misconception is not true. They are licensed under the original CC-BY-NC 3.0 Unported with no additional terms. The clause cited here is part of the original Creative Commons 3.0 licenses (including the not non-commercial ones) and was not added.

What this clause actually describes (rather unclearly) is moral rights. Depending on jurisdiction, moral rights may work differently from copyright, or even may even classified entirely separately. In some jurisdictions, moral rights can last indefinitely. So, in those jurisdictions, even works that would be otherwise in the public domain could in theory still be affected by moral rights.

All Creative Commons licenses do not waive or affect moral rights <https://creativecommons.org/2007/11/07/cc-oa-moral-rights/> - not even the CC0. There is one exception, which is that they stipulate that those rights shall be agreed to be waived by their holder in jurisdictions where enforcement of moral rights would compromise the ability to make derivative works, and where waiving the rights is possible. This is actually what the purpose of that clause is, it was just worded rather unintuitively in the 3.0 licenses

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This Christmas (if by God, we make it to Christmas)

Is probably the last Christmas humanity will experience. At least collectively.

I suppose its not impossible that some survivors may eek it out until 2028 in caves, bunkers, and deserts. But the vast majority of humanity will be gone by then.

Because as we speak, they are building Gods. Machine intelligence vastly superior to anything we are even capable of imagining. Our brains just are not built for it.

The last time a superior intelligence emerged on Earth (Homo sapiens), it caused the extinction of 90% of terrestrial species, transformed the entire face of the planet, razed millions of square kilometres of earth to build bizzare concrete and plastic jungles, utterly incomprehensible to inferior life forms.

We enslaved and then began to systematically slaughter-*literally billions*-of inferior life forms per year. They were utterly helpless against us.

Now it is our turn to be the inferior life form.

The living will envy the dead.

While you were busy fapping to cartoons I watched Cria Cuervos. It was beautiful.

I haven't been here in like a month and a half
What's up with the anime girl on the corner?

Chuck Norris

Minecraft server is back online!

Ver: 1.20.4

minecraft.kirakishou.com

Teehee.

Oh, this is very cool

Edit: I'm just testing

Great treasure has been found in the trash bin.

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

I'm in.

5 new ghosts
- aruto & white unyuu
- mayura & black unyuu
- sagiri & tama
- hakutai no yumeutsuutsu (one for teh ladiez)
- robin & cute rabbit's shop

enjoy

you guys ever thought of blogging?
it seems like the easiest coping mechanism against feeling like you are not doing anything meaningful
thoughts?