Copyright Policy

Last updated: 24 October 2026

This policy explains what may be published on Cloudy Button, how authorship is credited and what to do if someone has infringed your rights. It supplements the Terms & Conditions and the Community Rules.

1. You keep your rights

You remain the owner of your characters and works. By publishing them you give the Service only the licence it needs to display and store the content, as described in section 4 of the Terms.

2. What you may publish

• Work you created yourself.
• Other people's work only with their explicit permission and with credit to the author, for example illustrations you commissioned, if the artist allowed you to publish them.
• Fan art of characters on the Service, linked to the character. The link automatically credits the creator of the original character.

3. What you may not publish

• Other people's work without permission, even with credit.
• Traced, redrawn or slightly altered versions of other people's work presented as your own.
• Fan art of characters that are not on the Service, including characters from films, games, comics or series.
• Logos, trademarks and other material you have no right to use.

4. Characters and derivative works

• A character's creator decides how others may use it and can state those terms in the character's description.
• Fan art gives no rights in the character, and owning a character gives no rights in other people's fan art of it: each author keeps the rights in their own work.
• Transferring a character to someone else (selling, trading or gifting it) does not automatically transfer rights in works made before the transfer. Agree on this explicitly.

5. How to report an infringement

If your work has been published on the Service without permission, email info@cloudy-button.com and include:

• a link to the page with the infringing content;
• a link to the original or other proof of your authorship;
• how we can contact you;
• confirmation that you are the author or are acting on their behalf, and that the information in your report is accurate.

We will review the report, may hide or remove the content and will notify the person who published it.

6. If your content was removed by mistake

If your content was removed after a report and you believe you have the right to publish it, email info@cloudy-button.com explaining why you think the decision was wrong and include evidence. We will review the decision.

7. Repeat infringement

Accounts that repeatedly infringe other people's rights may be restricted or closed. Knowingly false reports also break these rules.