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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

Slowly over the last 8 months I've been getting a Night Lords themed leg tattoo. Also ive gone to a few tattoo conventions and have seem some familiar flash work that was 100% 40k. This got me thinking. Does anyone else out there have 40k tattoos? I'll post my pics of my leg piece shortly. I also have a Deathwing symbol on my shoulder and the aquilla on my upper back/ neck area too. Just curious guys. I'd like to see some of your body art if possible. Nothing too risqué or revealing please. Let's keep this PG-13. Thanks.

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Strangely Beautiful Daemonette of Slaanesh




Tucson az

I would but it would clash with my existing ink (pin up goth fairy on my leg,cat girl in kimono on left upper arm, and devil hunter yoko on my right upper arm. maybe a mark of slaanesh or a daemonette
   
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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle





Oxfordshire UK

I have always fancied having the Bad Moons clan symbol put somewhere.
And maybe the Nurgle thing on my upper right arm.......
Dunno thou, I'm a tattoo virgin!


 
   
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Sneaky Kommando






Sweden

I will get this one in a few weeks: http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.195738785.jpg

Don't have any yet, though.

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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

Ixias I think that's an awesome tattoo. I personally don't play Orks. But I can definitely see that as great piece of work.

Sarpedon, I have seen a few Nurgle symbols before at the Philly tattoo con and they can look really wicked. Especially green colors. On some types of skin it really stands out.

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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Dayton OH

I've seen similar threads before, just so you know this IS copyright infringement and GW may come looking for you with belt sanders

-from GW's intellectual property policy
T-shirts, Clothes, Tatoos and the Like

As always, we cannot allow third parties to obtain money from our intellectual property.

This effectively means that you would either have to buy Games Workshop T-shirts or clothes or make them yourself. You would not be able to sell any t-shirts or clothes that you make.

This also means that we cannot allow tattoos as an acceptable use of our IP as a third party necessarily has to perform the "service."

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Junior Officer with Laspistol




Manchester, UK

Brotherjulian wrote: I've seen similar threads before, just so you know this IS copyright infringement and GW may come looking for you with belt sanders


Or you could charge them for the advertising space, depending on how many people see it.

I remember I was queuing up to get on a plane when I was a child and this guy infront of me had a deathwing symbol on his arm, plus a load of other crazy stuff like he had made his arm look like a flamer.

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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

Really? Copyright infringement? Well I guess we have to stop painting their army symbols on our little plastic men now too. That is completely ridiculous to me. I did see there was an issue with people at Chapterhouse getting sued for this. But I haven't heard about it for a while.

See that flamer idea is 100% original. That's awesome.

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Longtime Dakkanaut




West Midlands (UK)

Trickstick wrote:
Or you could charge them for the advertising space, depending on how many people see it.


Well, if it's advertising space, than they would have the right to decide what to put up there!

   
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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

Even if I didn't pay for the tattoo? My artist is actually a friend if mine. So I don't get charged and there is no exchange of currency. So does that really infringe their copyright? No one is buying or selling anything. Just two friends hanging out drawing.

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Junior Officer with Laspistol




Manchester, UK

Most commerce law falls flat on its face if there was no trade for the service.

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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle





Oxfordshire UK

Copyright laws?! That is completely ridiculous!!
How, HOW can you charge someone under the copyright law when it's their skin?
I mean, unless it's on your forearm, who the hell will ever see it anyway?
Again, GW astound me.......


 
   
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Sneaky Kommando






Sweden

Yeah, the copyright only applies if a third party has earned money on it. So if a friend does it for free for you or, even better, if you do it yourself, there's absolutely nothing they can do.

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The Conquerer






Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios

actually, if you comission the artist to do a custom job, GW can't sue for copyright infringment.


if the Artist had 40k designs avaliable for every customer to look at then he would be under copyright infringment, but if its a customer order then there is nothing GW can do.


GW also can't copyright certain symbols they use as they are real world symbols. the Terminus badge is simply a Maltese Cross with a skull in the center, can't copyright the visual.


the same applies to T-shirt printers. they simply take orders. unless they are supplying the design they have no control over the design and are simply a middle man.

and you, the customer didn't profit from the transaction so there can't be any lost deal there.

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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

Thanks for that clarification guys. So back to the main topic. Anyone else have sweet ink of the 40k universe?

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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin




Dumbarton, Scotland

I know someone who has the Blood Angels icon on his forearm. And I met a guy at a music festival who had the Eight-Pointed Star on his back.

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Honored Helliarch on Hypex





Canada

I have a skull from my time in the service, I was thinking of turning it into a Crux Terminatrus but I don't have Terminator Armor to wear...

Think if I found some, I wouldn't offend the machine spirit within due to my Crux Term..?
   
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Slippery Ultramarine Scout Biker




Devon, Pennsylvania

This is what has been done over the last 8 months. Slow process i know but its my take on a Night Lords personal banner for a champion. Hence the red skull... what do you think guys?
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Cerebrium wrote:I know someone who has the Blood Angels icon on his forearm. And I met a guy at a music festival who had the Eight-Pointed Star on his back.


About the chaos star, it could have just been the ACTUAL chaos star (GW didnt' have the imagination )
Just sayin'

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Nurgle Chosen Marine on a Palanquin




Dumbarton, Scotland

No, no, it was the 40k one. He played Word Bearers.

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Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel






Boulder, CO

Sukigod has a custom Ork symbol on his arm.
Wicked nice work too.
   
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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine





Dayton OH

Cerebrium wrote:I know someone who has the Blood Angels icon on his forearm. And I met a guy at a music festival who had the Eight-Pointed Star on his back.


GW doesn't actually own the eight pointed star, they may try to imply they do but it came from Michael Moorcock's Elric books

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The Conquerer






Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios

there is a guy over on the Ogrestronghold who has the Maw on his belly.

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Fully-charged Electropriest





Hereford, UK

I would love to get a Bad Moons symbol sometime.
   
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Contagious Dreadnought of Nurgle





Oxfordshire UK

Well, I looked into getting the 'Nurgle Thing' on my right arm yesterday. But this being the UK all the Tat shops were shut.... Had to do my research on 'tinternet. All seems very promising! Watch this space, I may take pictures during the work itself and post them on here.
In case anyone is interested......


 
   
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I have the DA chapter banner on my back. Still unfinished but its there
   
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Making Stuff






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sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Copyright laws?! That is completely ridiculous!!
How, HOW can you charge someone under the copyright law when it's their skin?

It's not the person with the tattoo who would be running into legal issues. It's the tattoo artist who made money from someone else's intellectual property who has the potential legal problems.



Grey Templar wrote:actually, if you comission the artist to do a custom job, GW can't sue for copyright infringment.

Arguing that you were just doing what someone paid you to do isn't going to cut much mustard. You're still making money from someone else's IP.

Since you mention T-shirt printers, I would point out that most online printing services actually specifically ask in their terms of service that you only submit designs which you either created yourself or have permission to copy, specifically because there have been issues in the past with such companies allowing people to use copyrighted images.


Having said that, the chances of your tattoo artist receiving legal notice from GW are fairly slim. I would think it's include in their legal page for the same reason as a lot of the other stuff that people complain about in there... it's just for completeness, so they can give the appearance of covering all of their bases with regards to Intellectual Property. Giving the appearance of being a complete hard-ass for defending your IP is a fairly effective deterrent.

 
   
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Berks County - Pennsylvania - USA

The Tsunami wrote:This is what has been done over the last 8 months. Slow process i know but its my take on a Night Lords personal banner for a champion. Hence the red skull... what do you think guys?


Wow, really nice ink Tsunami. Did J9 do all that? Good stuff man.

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Lord of the Fleet






Halifornia, Nova Scotia

Thought about it...I'm at the point now where I don't really care what tattoos I get, I just want more. Maybe an aquila...or a lasgun...oh the possibilities...

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Grey Templar wrote:actually, if you comission the artist to do a custom job, GW can't sue for copyright infringment.


if the Artist had 40k designs avaliable for every customer to look at then he would be under copyright infringment, but if its a customer order then there is nothing GW can do.


GW also can't copyright certain symbols they use as they are real world symbols. the Terminus badge is simply a Maltese Cross with a skull in the center, can't copyright the visual.


the same applies to T-shirt printers. they simply take orders. unless they are supplying the design they have no control over the design and are simply a middle man.

and you, the customer didn't profit from the transaction so there can't be any lost deal there.


Unfortunately, most of this is completely false. It all falls under intellectual property laws and is not exempted by the VERY few reasons you can get around it (mostly education related). The moment a party other than GW makes money on GW's intellectual property, that party is breaking copyright laws. So are YOU going to get sued? No. Is the third party? Yes (or rather, they can).
A few examples of things that cannot be copied: books (of any kind), professional photographs (such as wedding photos or school photos), trademarks and logos (such as the Nike swish), or intellectual property (such as Mikey Mouse).
Just about all of the product range (including artwork) produced by GW is OWNED by GW.

Finally, there does not have to be a monetary transaction to break these laws. All that GW would have to show is a potential loss if they were to sell, for example, a T-shirt and some third party made it instead.

That being said. There can be some awesome GW related tattoos. I've seen a few myself. And I say go for it. The likelihood of any negative consequences (aside from the normal ones that come with getting a tattoo) are rather negligible.

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