ADOPT #002

# ✦ COMMERCIAL USE RULES ✦

Commercial rights allow the owner to use the purchased character for personal and profit-generating projects.

### ✓ Commercial use includes:

- Using the character in monetized YouTube/TikTok/Twitch content
- Using the character in a monetized social-media account
- Using the character in a game or visual novel
- Using the character in a book, comic, or other published work
- Using the character as a mascot or branding character
- Selling merchandise featuring the character
- Using the character in paid commissions or other paid creative projects
- Hiring another artist to create commercial artwork of the character

### ✓ You may also:

- Rename the character
- Change their personality, story, or lore
- Make reasonable changes to their design
- Create alternate outfits and forms
- Commission other artists to draw them
- Create your own artwork featuring the character

### ✗ Commercial rights do NOT allow you to:

- Claim that you created the original character design
- Claim that you created the original artwork
- Resell or redistribute the original artwork/files
- Sell the original artwork itself as a standalone product
- Use the original artwork as stock art
- Mint, sell, or distribute the artwork as an NFT
- Use the artwork to train or create AI-generated reproductions of the design
- Give the original character design to another person as though you created it
- Remove my artist credit where credit is specifically required

### ✦ COPYRIGHT

Purchasing an adoptable grants you ownership/use rights to the character according to these terms. It does **not** transfer copyright ownership of my original artwork.

I retain copyright over the original artwork and design unless a separate written agreement explicitly states otherwise.

You own the character and may develop them into your own original stories, artwork, lore, and projects within the rights granted above.

### ✦ CREDIT

Credit to **[YOUR USERNAME]** as the original character designer is appreciated and required when reasonably possible.

If the character is used commercially, please include credit somewhere appropriate, such as the game's credits, book credits, character description, website, or social-media profile.

### ✦ RESALE

If commercial rights were purchased, they remain attached to the character if the character is later transferred to another owner unless otherwise stated.

The new owner must agree to these terms before using the character commercially.

Commercial rights may not be separated from the character and sold independently.

### ✦ COMMERCIAL RIGHTS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

Commercial rights are an additional license granted with the character and cannot be refunded after the character has been used commercially.