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Copyright & Terms of Use

1. Ownership of Content

All artwork, illustrations, literary works, characters, images, graphics, and written content published on this website (jaypenn.com) are the exclusive property of Jay Penn and are protected under Irish, European, and international copyright laws (including the Berne Convention).

All rights are reserved.

2. Prohibition of AI Training & Automated Scraping

Explicit Opt-Out Notice: Pursuant to Article 4(3) of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (Directive (EU) 2019/790) and applicable international copyright frameworks, the rights holder explicitly reserves all rights regarding the extraction, harvesting, data mining, and copying of any content on this website for the purposes of training, tuning, or fine-tuning machine learning systems, generative AI models, or automated data tools.

  • No Automated Scraping: Automated crawlers, bots, or software scripts are strictly prohibited from harvesting images, text, or metadata from this website for commercial or non-commercial AI datasets without prior express written consent.
  • No Style Mimicry or Model Ingestion: Using any visual artwork or text from this website to generate derivative works, synthetic style models, or synthetic datasets via artificial intelligence is expressly forbidden.

3. Permitted Personal Use

You are more than welcome to:

  • View and browse the material on this website for personal, non-commercial inspiration and enjoyment.
  • Share direct links to pages or portfolio items on social media, provided that full credit is clearly given to Jay Penn and a direct link back to jaypenn.com is included.

4. Prohibited Uses

Without prior written authorization from Jay Penn, you may not:

  • Reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, sell, or license any artwork, text, or character designs from this website.
  • Use any images or text for commercial products, merchandise, book covers, promotional materials, or digital assets.
  • Re-upload full-resolution image files to third-party galleries, image-sharing platforms, or stock databases.

5. Licensing & Inquiries

If you are a publisher, literary agent, art director, or business interested in licensing my artwork, commissioning original art, or discussing rights for literary projects, please drop me a line:

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