Content Use Policy

Last Updated: November 13th, 2026 (11/13/2026)

Murasaki Kiwami Studios has very simple policies regarding the use of content provided under the brand and Murasaki's general YouTube content.

1. Do not simply reupload or re-use content without explicit permission.

a. Strict reuploads are 100% forbidden and will have takedown requests brought by the respective platform the content is hosted on. Permission to use clips of the studio's content for transformative, creative works, like essay videos, must be sought from Executive Director Kazuki Murasaki. We do not plan on mirroring our works to other platforms for now.

b. We do allow reactions, meme edits or YTPs of our content, however, we request you credit us for the content you used through sharing links to the source. Simply adding simple text such as "Credit to Kazuki Murasaki" or "I did not make this" or simply saying/copying and pasting the phrase "Fair Use" or the entirety of Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976 in your post's description or within the video is insufficient and will be met with responsive action.

c.  It is completely not mandatory or necessary to constantly paste credits to our work every time you want to share clips or memes of our work and such in private social media areas like Discord servers/group chats and elsewhere on other platforms. We're not going to be the next Nintendo and hyper-police that to cartoonishly silly degrees, but credit is much appreciated if you're going to share our works. We appreciate some good publicity.

d. Regarding our mods for the Ryu Ga Gotoku/Like a Dragon/Yakuza games, we will only upload our mods to Nexus Mods and nowhere else. This policy is universal for all Yakuza mod projects. Do not reupload or share our mods to other platforms such as ModDB or GameBanana. Any media you create using our Yakuza mods (such as No Damage runs) must be credited by linking to our mod's page from Nexus Mods. Failure to credit our work will be met with moderate action.

e. If you are to use any assets from our Yakuza mods, please notify Murasaki directly first on Discord wherever available. However, for assets in our mods not originally created by us, please consult with the relevant original creators instead (i.e: Triple AAA for the Legend Remix series of QoL mods for Yakuza).

2. Our content and characters are not to be used in illegal or NSFW content. 

a. We do not condone the use of our characters and content featured in any other media that promotes outright illegal activity or topics or in NSFW/pornographic/fetishistic content.

This also includes using our content to produce derogatory content such as unironic/real-world hate speech (whether targeting marginalized groups or individuals or whatnot) or politically charged media taken outside of the original work's context.

There will be no exceptions, including media based on the United States and its ongoing international scandals, irrelevant to the context of the work. 

Any instances of such will be met with immediate takedown requests through whatever formal means are available.

3. Do not obscure, omit, or do any editing that erases watermarks.

a. Any watermarks we place to protect copyright of studio work are not to be omitted, and if by any chance that any associate or the executive director himself detects reuploaded/reused content from us that has removed or obscured a watermark, we will take immediate action. Proper credit and attributions must be given to all individuals involved in the production of our works.

4. Our stance on Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen. AI).

a. Murasaki Kiwami Studios does not fully condone the use of generative artificial intelligence in creative spaces that aims to undermine the work of and harm the lives and/or careers of real hard-working human artists, actors and others who work in the entertainment industry, especially animation and voice acting.

b. Training or algorithms of data models of any generative AI using content from Murasaki Kiwami Studios without the Executive Director's explicit permission to generate any audiovisual media, written works, and anything else, is strictly prohibited, and will be met with an appropiate level of response. This includes:

1. the Yakuza mods published by this studio (including Blakeuza and Mann Ga Gotoku), 

2. Any official movies/videos published on Kazuki Murasaki's official YouTube channel whether or not it is under the MKS label,

3. and the text and image contents of any of the studio's written works to generate a publication of your own, whether it has any relation to the source material or not.

c. We will take down any content generated with AI that has unethically used our work.

Thank you for abiding by our policies and respecting the integrity of our works.