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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8362111" data-attributes="member: 6879661">In this specific case, I think you misunderstand the way copyright applies to art Hussar. You can copyright a specific illustration but you can’t copyright a concept or a style. So in this case you can’t accidentally copy someone’s work.If you draw a dragon biting it’s tail you can copyright that specific image. But I can also draw a dragon biting it’s tail which is also protected for me but not the concept or the style behind it. Someone would need to copy the exact same ring token image to fall afoul of the copyright rules.If an entrant in any competition fraudulently submits work not their own then the competition holder might need to withdraw the work if requested by the true owner, but the company hasn’t really lost anything. Nor would they be blamed in the court of public option because of a fraudulent entrant. They would withdraw the prize, the runner up wins. Simple.Fraud by entrants is very rare. Now in other creative concepts where something other than just an illustration is entered, for instance the DM Contest  or the 2014 setting competition then there is more risk.</blockquote>