Lando Cenvax
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2015.04.15 23:21:59 -
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Those Requirements... 
One Word: OVERKILL
You should possibly consult with your lawyer again.
Your first and biggest mistake is to claim ownership of the content. This makes CCP the owner of any logo thus responsible for any copyright issues. This is imho a quite stupid move. Have the content uploaded by the user under a special license so it remains his property like everywhere else on the net... That might require a minor EULA-Change, but that's it. Then logos are subject to same laws as videos on youtube or posts in this forum. Afaik any nation on this planet that has made a decision regarding approval of user-content finally came to the conclusion that pre-approval is not the way to go. The operator of any plattform (may it be a video-plattform or discussion boards like this one) is not responsible for the content in first place, but has to remove content upon claims from copyright holder.
What you are suggesting here is going by whitelist and manually approving content. This is painfull for everyone, inefficient, discriminating smaller alliances and technically neither necessary nor beneficial in any way. Even if you are paranoid when it comes to exploits of the upload-file, there are tools for that. I would rather suggest to go by blacklist:
- Executors have pay at least once by credit card for sake of real-life authentication. Just to cover that. So you are 100% on the safe side.
- Alliances that are found to upload non-compliant logos will be punished. Heavily. Just to scare of people from uploading illegal stuff.
So you are about as safe as a Titan in 1.0 Space piloted by a player in an NPC-Corp...
Regarding the logo design guidelines: You do realize that even the ingame-logo-designer has a lot of templates that don't really match the game-setting and/or could violate your requirements (national colors can be easily introduced into logos with the existing templates creating something like a flag as a background)? Even and especially the argument with painting the logo on ships would most like trigger a re-design inside the alliance if the logo looks crappy ingame. Who wants their ships to not look good? If that doesn't work, CCP still can take action. But again: White-List approach = imho wrong way to go. Just publish the tech-specs required for the logo so people can create it accordingly. People design textures e.g. for their aircraft in Flightsim, so a logo can't be that big of a challenge. Those who really don't have any designer in their ally could still use your "email-upload-service" for a few PLEX processing charge... 
OT: Talking about bad rendering: the black textures "inside" of the Panther still look strange (greenish) ingame, needs some adjustmens. imho |