Who owns what
This site is written, designed and built by us. Our own text, layout, code and data compilations are ours.
Game titles, characters, artwork and in-game text belong to the studios that made the games. We claim no ownership of any of it.
Antewise is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or licensed by any game publisher or developer. Game names and marks appear here only to identify the games being discussed.
Where the game material comes from
- Card, item and character artwork taken from the games’ own published assets and community data sources.
- Data (costs, stats, drop rates, unlock conditions) read from the games’ own files or the sources named on each page’s metadata line.
- Screenshots, where a page uses them, captured from a lawfully obtained copy of the game.
Each page names its data source in the metadata line under the title.
How we use it
We use this material under fair use as set out in Section 107 of the US Copyright Act, and under equivalent provisions elsewhere.
Our use is:
- Reference and commentary. We explain mechanics, compare numbers and answer questions. The artwork identifies the thing being discussed.
- Transformative in context. A card image on this site sits inside analysis of what that card does, not inside the game.
- Limited to what the reference needs. We do not publish art galleries, wallpaper collections or asset downloads.
Two points we will not fudge, because other fan sites usually do:
- This site carries advertising, so it is not non-commercial. We are not going to claim otherwise. The ads fund the hosting and the time. Our fair-use position rests on the purpose and the nature of the use, not on pretending no money is involved.
- We are not claiming a licence we do not have. Where a studio publishes a policy that permits fan use, we follow that policy explicitly. Where a studio has not granted permission, we rely on fair use and we will remove material on request, promptly and without argument.
Per-game position
| Game | Rights holder | Our basis |
|---|---|---|
| Hades, Bastion, Transistor, Pyre | Supergiant Games | Used under the fansite permission in Supergiant’s Terms of Use §3, with the attribution notice that section requires |
| Slay the Spire, Slay the Spire 2 | Mega Crit | Fair use. Mega Crit’s published content policy covers video, merchandise and mods, and does not address website use |
| Balatro | LocalThunk / Playstack | Fair use. No published fan-content policy found |
| The Binding of Isaac | Nicalis, Inc. | Fair use |
| Risk of Rain 2 | Hopoo Games / Gearbox Publishing | Fair use |
| Dead Cells | Motion Twin / Evil Empire | Fair use |
| Vampire Survivors | poncle | Fair use |
| Monster Train | Shiny Shoe | Fair use |
| Path of Exile 2 | Grinding Gear Games | Fair use |
Where a game is listed as fair use, we are asserting it, not claiming permission. If a rights holder disagrees, we will act on a takedown request.
If you are a rights holder
Email dmca@antewise.com with the subject line DMCA and include:
- Your name, organisation and contact details, and the capacity you are acting in.
- The work you say is infringed.
- The specific URL or URLs on this site.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and you are authorised to act for the owner.
- Your signature.
We acknowledge a valid notice within 72 hours. We remove the material within 10 business days, and usually the same day. We keep no interest in keeping disputed material up.
If something was removed in error, reply with the subject line DMCA COUNTER-NOTICE and the same details. We will restore it unless the original complainant files a court action.
Accounts or contributors who repeatedly post infringing material are removed from the site.
If you want to reuse our material
Our own writing and code are ours. You may quote from a page with attribution and a link. Do not republish a page wholesale, mirror the site, or train a model on substantial parts of it.
Game artwork on this site is not ours to license. If you want to use it, go to the rights holder named in the table above, not to us.
Corrections
Wrong data is a different problem from a rights problem, and we want to hear about it. Email hello@antewise.com with the page and what you observed.
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