IP Rights

Whiskers Non-exclusive License

As the owner of a Whisker, you basically have the right to do anything you want with your Whisker character and its image. If you want to create a t-shirt featuring your Whisker, go for it. Maybe you also want your favorite magical fish on a coffee mug and, if so, that's perfectly fine. You might even want to pay an artist to create a new piece of work featuring your Whisker, this is also fine.

You can do all these things and more, as long as you are holding that specific Whisker NFT.

You can not sublicense your license to third parties. You can transfer your license by selling your Whisker. The new holder will then be the license holder.

Using or Adding to The World of Whiskers: The Great Pond

In terms of the world of Whiskers as a whole, or creating new Whiskers/fan arts/new stories/new games in the world of The Great Pond, we encourage this! You may do anything you like regarding this, so long as you credit Whiskers™ as being the inspiration for it. Maybe you want to make your own Last Fish! expansion, or a DnD module using The Great Pond as its setting. We say: go for it (and share it with us)! So long as you mention that it is fan-made, and not created or endorsed by the Whiskers company, we encourage any and all creativity.

Commission-based Derivative Works

A commission-based derivative work is a piece of artwork that you personally request/pay to be created. It does not exist until you request/pay for it. Whiskers fully supports this type of holder-artist exchange.

Large Project Derivative Works

Projects producing a version of every character within the Whiskers NFT collection have likely not contacted every owner asking for permission to use their Whisker. As such, these collections are stealing IP and action can be taken to have them removed from OpenSea or whatever other website.

If done strictly for art purposes, and not sold or forcefully sent to anyone, derivative works are allowed. However, it is not always so cut and dry. Copyright law can become very complicated and there are a number of gray areas so should larger projects arise they will be taken on a case-by-case basis. A good rule of thumb is that if it doesn’t harm the image of Whiskers as a whole, it’s likely ok to create. After all, we’re artists, too!