Commercial Use Licence (Patreon)

If you're a patron of Czepeku and use our maps commercially, all of this will be very familiar to you. Largely, the same rules apply.

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Edit as of 02/01/2023: Added section titled NFTs and AI Art

Using our Ships/Battlemaps in Commercial Products

This commercial licence is available to all of our active patrons.

To use our battlemaps in your adventures, supplements, modules, or other published materials you must use a watermarked version of our battlemaps.

Our watermark is available in the attachments of this post, one in black and one in white.

The watermark should be placed in the bottom right corner and should be sized at least one-quarter the width of the map.

These maps are for reference only within the text and the non-watermarked battlemaps themselves are not for distribution alongside the product unless specifically granted permission by us.

See below for a watermarked example:

Attribution

If you use any of our battlemaps for any commercial reason, we require that you include both of the following:

- Our name in the credits as a cartographer or under some other relevant title (“Cartography by Hyperdrive Fleet” or "Battlemaps by Hyperdrive Fleet") with a link to "patreon.com/hyperdrivefleet"

- A link to "patreon.com/hyperdrivefleet" beneath or beside the battlemap or in another prominent location near the battlemap.

If your map is being posted online in a digital marketplace, this attribution must be in the public facing description section.

Applicable Artwork

All of the battlemaps provided on the Hyperdrive Fleet Patreon are available for commercial use.

The commercial use licence only includes Hyperdrive Fleet Battlemaps. All of our other illustrative works are exempt from the licence (illustrations, props, assets, tokens, animations, etc.).

Restrictions on Use

The battlemaps are available only for use within other publications, for example: adventures, modules, world building and character supplements, etc. the maps themselves are not available for rehosting or resale as standalone items, digitally or physically.

In addition:

1. You may not recolour, resize to alter proportions, modify, adapt, or disassemble the battlemaps in a way that distorts the original. The exception to this is: we allow you to desaturate the maps for greyscale/black and white publications.

2. You may not use our battlemaps as the basis for any other physical or digital merchandise or promotional items, such as but not limited to t-shirts, greeting cards, mugs, posters, prints, etc.

3. You cannot use the battlemaps (in whole or in part) as a trademark, service mark, logo, or other indication of origin, or as part thereof, or to otherwise endorse or imply the endorsement of any goods and/or services.

4. You are not authorized to sub-license, sell, or lease the battlemaps, nor may you temporarily or permanently transfer your rights under this agreement to a third party. This includes displaying the maps in any format for download on a website, offering the maps for sale, or otherwise for distribution and/or sale to third parties.

5. Use of the battlemaps in a way that can be considered generally offensive, obscene or immoral is strictly prohibited. This means the battlemaps are not available within any material that promotes racism, homophobia, transphobia or bigotry of any kind.

6. Use of the battlemaps in such a way that it appears Hyperdrive Fleet endorses your product.

7. There should be at least an estimated 1000 words per map used.

NFTs and AI Art

As individuals and as a company we are 100% against the idea of NFTs and AI 'art'. None of our art (battlemaps, tokens, etc.) whatsoever are to be used in the minting of NFTs or training of AI art. Nor to be used in any product or by any company that also uses NFTs or AI art in any of their other products or actively supports their use in any way.

NFTs are used as a scam to swindle desperate people in a hostile economy out of their money. They are a 'get rich quick' scheme that hurts the vast majority of individuals who buy them and should not be encouraged as a form of investing. AI 'art' is trained off of human artists without their consent or knowledge for the sole purpose of putting them out of work by companies who don't want to support artists by paying them for their time and skill.

We wholeheartedly support people and their desire to create beautiful things. We will never support technologies that exist solely to harm individuals and communities.

Exceptions for Streaming

If you plan to use our battlemaps in a video, stream or podcast, on Twitch, Youtube or similar video platforms, you do not need to obtain this licence and you may use the non-watermarked versions of the battlemaps on your streams. Furthermore, you do not need to notify us of your stream, but you may do so on our Discord.

If you are using our battlemaps for streaming purposes we expect the rules under the section named Attribution to still be adhered to (essentially, a link to our Patreon and credit in the video description).

We also expect you to be a patron of the tier of battlemaps you're using whilst streaming the maps. For example, if you are using our $5 tier maps on your stream, we expect you to be a $5 patron whilst your video content is online.

Further Use Requests

If you would like to use the non-watermarked versions of the battlemaps in your commercial products or to print the full-resolution battlemaps alongside your commercial products (for instance for a kickstarter project) you must contact us directly and seek explicit permission.

We will only offer this on a case-by-case basis and expect either a flat sum offer or profit share offer in the email.

We will not provide the maps for exclusive use under any circumstance.

Commission Requests

We do not take personally commissions or requests. All of our maps are creating for all of our patrons. If you have ideas for maps you'd like us to create, please join our Discord server and share them there!

Contact

If you have any questions, please send us a direct message through Patreon or Discord. Or ask our Moderators on our public Discord.

(It is not a requirement of this licence but we request that if you do use our battlemaps in your work that you send us a digital copy of it so that we can see how they are being used.)