Patents

Perks

You can get a percentage of UN Patent Reward revenue for having developed a patent (based on the estimated value of the Patent as determined by Admin)

Cons

Your invention will be publicly posted on the website so other people can make it

What is a Patent?

Patents are...

-Useful specific ingame inventions which aren't easily available online and required a lot of thought

-Unique contests which were well thought out

-Unique specific business models which required thought

Examples of what's okay...

-A stasis chamber which prevents ender pearls from landing until a automated piston moves

-Letting people rent your stocks (if the stocks do well they get a portion of profit but if stocks do bad they'll have to pay you compensation)

-Shulker Wars, a game which is really fun

Examples of what's not okay...

-A nuclear reactor design you can easily look up online

-Feudalism : You provide land or defense, people farm the land

-SpleefWar, a version of spleef where people have guns with limited ammo

Copyrights

Perks

If you tell them to stop first...

Players cannot use copyrighted ideas without explicit permission

What is a Copyright?

Copyrights are...

-Images

-Skins

-Nation/town frontier color on map

-Block images ingame

-Block patterns that could uniquely identify something as yours

-Ship/Plane shapes/designs

Copyrights MUST not be generic

Copyrighting the Steve Skin isn't okay

Copyrighting a skin you yourself made is okay

Trademarks

Perks

If you tell them to stop first...

Players cannot use trademarked phrases without explicit permission

What is a Trademark?

Trademarks are slogans, names, or phrases

Trademarks MUST not be generic

Stuff like "The Empire™" isn't okay

Stuff like "Valrian Union™" is okay