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In response to feedback: To clarify the SoV copyright policy in a short, simple way for everyone.

Any work done by members of the guild is still owned by the creating member, they reserve the rights to such work and SoV at no point wishes to take away any of those rights.

By submitting material to SoV for use by the guild you are granting SoV a perpetual, unrestricted license to use that work. This license is not revokable, it applies to all guild materials. Examples of guild materials include but are not limited to: website, forums, newsletters, guild pages on other sites, promotional media and anything else deemed guild related by the gods of SoV.

The license extends to all guild related materials, but does not cover personal use of guild materials. In such cases the original copyright holder and/or creator retains the right to allow or deny such usage.

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To make sure everyone understands this, I'll give a few examples that should clarify many points.

Say member X creates an image for SoV.

She submits this image to the guild - granting an implicit license to the guild to use said material.

SoV accepts this image under our copyright policy - elevating the guild rights to perpetual, unrestricted in relation to guild based materials - which the member agreed to as part of submitting said work. NOTE: This means that if you submit work to SoV and we do NOT accept it, we do NOT retain a licence to use such work. We do not wish to retain useless rights or detract from member ownership.

SoV uses this image in various ways on guild related materials - this is allowed.

An SoV member uses the image on their personal website. The original creator complains that she does not wish the image to be used on such a site. SoV will attempt to have the member cease usage of the image.
As such a site would not be guild related the original owner retains her copyright. As we are a friendly guild we are willing to help people solve such issues if we can.

The original creator decides to leave SoV, then demands that we cease using her image.

SoV may rightfully decline such a demand, as our copyright policy provided for perpetual, unrestricted usage in relation to guild sites.
We shall still attempt to prevent members using such material on personal sites, but we have the right to continue to use such material on the guild related media for as long as we desire.

If the original creator politely requests that SoV cease using her image, we may decide to honour that request.
Such an action would require:
1. Time to develop or acquire a replacement.
2. Agreement from the gods or a high god decree.
3. Politeness. Anyone making childish demands WILL be ignored.

SoV are under no obligation to honour such demands, we have the RIGHT to use said material; if we cease using it upon request it's because we're being NICE, not because we are obliged to.