Degen Dojo — License & IP Rights
The short version
- You own your Degen. Hold it, sell it, transfer it — it's yours.
- You get a commercial license to your Degen's art while you own it — make merch, media, and derivatives. What you create is yours.
- The "Degen Dojo" name, logo and brand belong to the project/community — don't use them to look official or to sell knock-offs.
- The license moves with the NFT. Sell your Degen and the rights pass to the new owner.
1. Definitions
"Collection" means the Degen Dojo collection of 2,914 NFTs on the Solana blockchain. "Degen" or "Art" means the artwork associated with a specific NFT in the Collection. "Holder" or "You" means the wallet that owns a Degen NFT. "Degen Dojo," "we," or "us" means the community and operators that steward the Collection.
2. Your NFT
You own the NFT — the on-chain token itself. You have the exclusive right to hold, sell, transfer, and otherwise transact your Degen on any marketplace, subject to these terms.
3. Collection & Brand IP (reserved to Degen Dojo)
The "Degen Dojo" name, the torii/dojo logo and marks, this website, and the overall brand and collective identity of the Collection (the "Brand") are owned and operated by the Degen Dojo project and community. These terms grant you no rights in the Brand. You may not use the Brand, or anything confusingly similar, to imply official endorsement, to represent yourself as the project, or to launch a competing or "official" Degen Dojo product or collection.
4. Your license to your Degen's Art
For as long as you are the Holder of a Degen, Degen Dojo grants you a worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publicly display, and create derivative works of that Degen's Art, including for commercial purposes (for example: merchandise, apparel, art, and media). This license applies to the Degen's artwork as a whole, not to individual traits in isolation. You own the intellectual property in any new derivative works you create under this license.
5. Restrictions
You may not use the Art: (a) in connection with hate speech, harassment, or unlawful activity; (b) together with the Degen Dojo Brand or trademarks; (c) in any way that implies official Degen Dojo endorsement or that you are the project; or (d) after you no longer own the Degen. This license is tied to ownership: when you transfer or sell the NFT, this license transfers with it to the new Holder, and your rights under it end.
6. About this collection (an honest note)
Degen Dojo was abandoned by its original, anonymous founders and rebuilt by its community. The original artwork was released without any license, terms, or stated rights, and its authorship remains anonymous. We grant the rights above in good faith as the collection's current stewards, to give holders clarity and confidence in using their own Degens. We do not represent that we hold registered copyright in each individual original artwork; our clearly-owned collection assets are the Degen Dojo brand and trademark and any new artwork we commission.
7. No warranty; not legal advice
Everything here is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind. This document is a working draft, is not legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Consult your own attorney before relying on it.