I added some new features today.

1. Creative Commons - Now you can set your snapshots/stages to be licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share Alike Unported License. In order to set all of your old snapshots to this, go to your User profile, click Edit YourScreenName's Settings, and the answer yes to the question at the top. The reason I think it's important that our works be licensed under the creative commons is because it allows other people to remix our stuff and make cool versions of it. Whether people want to overlay your image with text, or add it as a forum signature they should be free to do so, as long as they give you attribution for your work.

2. BBCodes

I added some nice BBCodes. You can now embed YouTube videos into our forum with the youtube bbcode, here's how you do it: Say your youtbue video link is


Your bbcode should be:


I also added the user BBCode. If your want to to link to my profile you'd write your BBCode like this:


I'd like to remind everyone that we still have snapshot and stage BBCodes for quick snapshot and stage linking.

Hi ryan, sorry to bother you, but i tried to embed a youtube video in a new forum i made and it wont show up, can you help? thank you

edit:ok, i fixed it, i read the instructions wrong, sorry

Wow! Great work, man. Thanks a lot.

Creative Commons rocks. I just did so to all my pictures. You get credited, and I like that. As for YouTube, I'll just do links.

Having creative commons on a snapshot is just silly, these are the kind of images that spread virally.

I mean there's no way in hell I'm gonna be able to stop places like halolz.com from taking one of my snapshots and captioning it, or from someone doing the same on deviantart, or from being posted on 4chan, and used in other peoples youtube videos.

Which has all happened.

I'm not going to license my snapshots, I don't need credit for them, haha. Although I completely understand if someone wants to protect the rights to their image, I just, don't know if that it will actually work.

I see what you mean BrawlinRupee, we could offer another license choice, like the public domain license.

Technically, if you don't license your snapshots, they are under full copyright protection and people aren't allowed to use them under any circumstances. But you're right, it's not really possible or practical to stop them.

I would absolutely love a public domain license option, I welcome people doing whatever they want with my snapshots.

what are bb codes.

BBCodes are codes you enter into forum posts that get translated into HTML, when you write a post they are at the top of the post box underneath the subject

Here is a Wikipedia article about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode

I couldn't agree more with this, I think the idea of licensing here is just kinda silly.

Even when huge corporations like YouTube try to stop copyright infringement, users find ways to get past filters, no problem. What's to stop anonymous from captioning his favorite snapshot and getting credit for it?

Snapshot-takers don't even own rights to SSBB, Nintendo/Sora does, so shouldn't that license be to them instead, if at all?

The point of the license is not to stop people from stealing your stuff. The purpose of the license is to let people who follow copyright rules use your stuff without going through the lengthy and messy process of contacting you and obtaining permission.



I don't know if this is legally clear. People take pictures of other people's copyrighted things and those pictures are owned by the picture taker. It could be argued, even, that Nintendo has given up their right to those images by letting you take them.

Large companies like IGN have created snapshot sharing websites, and I haven't heard anything about Nintendo suing them for facilitating copyright infringement.

I have personally emailed Nintendo's legal staff on this issue and they have yet to get back to me for over 1 month.

Whether you use the license or not, people are going to use your snapshot if they want to. But thank you for helping me understand what the license is for.

Good for Nintendo, then, not suing us and all. I love snapshot-sharing sites. <3

Really? So if I remove the Creative Commons license it will be under full copyright?

In short, the answer to your question is no.

Anyone who obtained your works under the CC license can continue to use it as the license allows. Other people who try to obtain copyrights to your snapshot by coming to BrawlSnapshots.com would not be able to obtain these rights.