Does Bilibili's Digital Card Artwork Count as Paid Reward?

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The Bilibili App offers a service called "Card Collection Sets." It allows users to pay to draw digital cards from various gacha pools. These cards feature high-quality, often exclusive commissioned artwork as their card images.

Despite involving payment, I believe the card images themselves should not be considered Paid Reward, for the following reasons:

1. All card images are publicly viewable/browsable within the app for everyone, regardless of whether a user has paid to own the card. While the app doesn't provide a download button, the full-size images are publicly accessible via the image URL found in the webpage source code.
2. Each digital card on Bilibili has a unique ID and blockchain-backed metadata. They are transferable between users, making them true digital collectibles (NFTs). Users are paying for the unique digital collectible item, not directly for the artwork file. This is further evidenced by users potentially owning multiple copies of a card with the same artwork – they aren't paying per artwork view/copy.

However, since Danbooru strictly prohibits Paid Reward uploads, I want to confirm before potentially uploading any of these card images and risking a ban.

If uploading these card images is allowed, I plan to mass-upload them. These artworks are rarely seen on Danbooru or other boorus, so adding them would be valuable. If it's not allowed, I obviously won't upload them at all.

All card images are publicly viewable/browsable within the app for everyone, regardless of whether a user has paid to own the card. While the app doesn't provide a download button, the full-size images are publicly accessible via the image URL found in the webpage source code.

combined with this rule on the paid reward wiki, emphasis on "public":

  • Public or free posts aren't paid rewards.

leads me to believe these wouldn't be considered paid rewards if posted. i'd also check whether the publicly available versions are just image samples or the real thing. edit: i somehow forgot you said "full-size"

Updated by Kaleidoscoped

Thank you all for your responses! It sounds like uploading these artworks is acceptable. I've indeed been using the developer console to retrieve the card images.

As an example, here's a Card Collection Set featuring mita_(miside):
https://www.bilibili.com/h5/mall/digital-card/home?-Abrowser=live&act_id=106588

You should be able to access it via a PC browser and view all cards in this collection. By opening the developer console and searching for ".webp", you can locate all card image URLs, such as:
https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/garb/open/b679cf463228ef0c05e912d0fa9f42840f635cf5.png@348w_524h.webp

Clearly, the full-resolution version exists at:
https://i0.hdslb.com/bfs/garb/open/b679cf463228ef0c05e912d0fa9f42840f635cf5.png

That's the complete process for obtaining the card artwork.

WRS said:

To dumb down the rule on paid rewards, if it 1) doesn't require a renewing subscription and 2) isn't from a licensed work, it's okay. LGTM.

Because being pedantic is fun: platform subscriptions don't count. If something is locked behind Pixiv premium that still isn't a paid reward, only subscriptions directly to artists count.

nyom said:

Such a tag sounds like something that will inevitably attract trouble later down the line...

I imagine a tag like that would just get nuked similar to the tags we had for "no reposting" watermarks.

Ylimegirl said:

I imagine a tag like that would just get nuked similar to the tags we had for "no reposting" watermarks.

an nft meta tag, you mean? we're already publicly uploading from foundation. nfts have been on their way out for a long time, so i dont know why anyone would throw a fit over an nft meta tag.

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