Talk:Licenses/@comment-2601:3C1:80:6DBD:9436:1958:4EF:D627-20190802115721/@comment-53539-20190802153753

The reason we don't have a page to cover fan merchandise is its not always possible. For example, while I can read Japanese myself, its pretty basic and only lets me understand certain phrases on articles. If I want to get the full defination of things, I end up referring to a machine translator. Straight away I can define this problem as what holds us back a lot of times; the majority of us cannot translate some of the legal stuff from Japanese,Chinese, Korean and Spanish. So believe it or not, that prevents us doing a lot of things including this.

If you read Fukase, Unity-Chan, IA and Miku all 4 of these have slightly different reactions to what you can and can't do for each Vocaloid. For the most part, if you write an album, release it and not mention you used a Vocaloid, then its fine.

Things change when you start wanting to slap the name of "Vocaloid" on the label of the album.

Again if you want "Miriam", "Meiko", "Bruno", etc on there.

And again when you want to add the character itself.

Each time, things get a little more complicated. If your unsure when it comes to music, just don't label any usage of Vocaloid at all. If in doubt contact the studio, if you cannot (say their Japanese), then the best way to approach things is to not do any merchadise at all.

This isn't a problem as you can see here;
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAIDqt2aUek