Hey guys, my name is Jonah, I'm a new member and I made an account on here for two reasons. One I love playing cards.
Two I want to get exposure for a project that I am working on right now... It is a deck of cards based off of a Christmas Carol by Charles Dinkins, with the court cards as the characters. Here is the campaign link if anyone is interested in it.
https://www.gofundme.com/a-christmas-carol-deck&rcid=r01-153886018361-662a2f9d5f9a450b&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_m
If anyone has any questions you can contact my via email.
Thanks,
Jonah
Welcome to the forum, Jonah.
You should know that a lot of people who are into crowdfunding of playing card projects wouldn't consider GoFundMe an appropriate platform for such work, or at the very least, they wouldn't consider a "donation-based" fundraiser an appropriate platform. Donations are just that - gifts without strings attached, intended in most cases for charitable causes. A deck project isn't a charitable cause, it's a product.
BTW: proper spelling and syntax are VERY important when communicating with the public if you do not wish to be perceived as amateurish. For example, the story upon which your design is based is:
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens,
and NOT:
a Christmas Carol by Charles Dinkins,
J & J Magic is a proper noun and should be capitalized and not written as "J and J magic" (the ampersand is optional; it could be "J and J Magic" instead)
and a person who donates something to a cause, be it money, goods or effort, is a donor, not a "donar."
Furthermore, as you're basing your deck specifically, according to your GoFundMe page, on "the cast of CYTs production of A Christmas Carol," you will need to obtain permission from CYT (by which I assume you are referring to Chicago's Christian Youth Theater) and from the performers to use their images in your project, and to obtain such permission, you may have to pay some form of fees or royalties. Without legal release documents, you could be sued by any or all of them (CYT Chicago, CYT Global or the individual performers depicted) under intellectual property law. Had you chosen to base everything directly off the book, you would have been in better shape legally as the book was printed in 1843 and is now in the public domain. If, however, you base your work on any subsequent work that was based on the original Dickens work, especially any contemporary work such as a recent stage production, movie or television show, you might run into intellectual property rights issues, especially when using the likenesses of living people without a model release.
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