In many countries, the question of profit doesn’t matter as to whether it violates copyright or not. Who knows where the legal stuff would happen but I looked up Australia’s copyright laws as well as I could and it seems similar to US copyright with the fact that it doesn’t matter whether someone is profiting from it or not.
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It wasn’t free is the problem. They were selling it on patreon from what I have heard.
Ah, thank you for that context, I didn’t see any mention of Patreon in the article.
In many countries, the question of profit doesn’t matter as to whether it violates copyright or not. Who knows where the legal stuff would happen but I looked up Australia’s copyright laws as well as I could and it seems similar to US copyright with the fact that it doesn’t matter whether someone is profiting from it or not.
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