If you play Among Us, you might have seen that a lot of people are making crewmate merch & selling it. Honestly, if this were a company like Disney, I wouldn’t care (except that you could get fined.) But I honestly do not care about stealing from large corps.
However, the devs of Among Us have asked people to not make merch at the current moment, because it’s actually hurting their own store. They are a small group of 3 people who make a game that is free to play. Additional add ons are optional.
People, especially small businesses, should not be stealing from other small businesses. There are so many creators right now who are just blocking people who are letting them know, and it’s super frustrating, because that puts all of us in a bad spot and normalizes art theft. So if you see anyone selling Among Us merch.. call them out & don’t buy from them.
This is a false statement. They are working on their creation terms for fan merch. They are not against it.
None of what I said is untrue. This is their statement:
I even said for the current moment. They have spoken on their individual twitter accounts as well that while they care less about small businesses creating stuff on a small scale, but that it really does need to go on a case-by-case basis. There are a lot of people who are adding flat out copied designs onto print by demand sites such as redbubble, that are not even fan art. They’re literally just a crewmates. Or Etsy sellers who are literally just tracing the crewmates & selling them or putting it on t-shirts. This directly competes with their own store.
The creators have flat-out said, no businesses at all should be selling at this moment. They are working out a licensing thing, which I’m going to assume is something that you’re going to have to pay for but I’m not really sure.
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