I am trying to publish one of my islands that I left 2 years ago with a brand new game. It has been rejected 3 times now even with a failed appeal because I violate rule 1.7, Respect IP Ownership. I have changed the thumbnail 3 times with my own creations and my latest thumbnail is the most contrasting from the other two. Still, I am getting the same problem. Here is my latest thumbnail with the render made in Blender. My guess with the latest thumbnail that it might be the background for some reason.
Hey Spectral,
I think the gun being pointed towards someone is the problem
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Hi Hardcawcanary, if that is the case, I don’t think that would violate rule 1.7. I’m not sure if that is the issue because Bullseye’s got their piece control maps with characters doing the same thing.
Another thing about my thumbnails is that my first two didn’t have any guns pointed toward anyone and I still got the same reason for my rejections. They may be talking about the subrule from 1.7 but they aren’t being specific.
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Well, here is the 2nd thumbnail I tried submitting. Of course, not as high quality as my latest one but there is nothing that strikes as a violation of rule 1.7 to me. My final guess is probably the background but that’s all I can think of.
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need some @Astrotronic wisdom
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Haha, I do love me some thumbnail speculation. 
About where the gun is pointing - it seems passable according to these guidelines
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For the longest time I’ve seen Fishsticks + Jonesy etc in thumbnails and was under the assumption that Epic was ok with it.
As of June 27, 2025 there is a new subrule in 1.7
* 1.7.1 Epic-Owned IP. Epic owns intellectual property (IP) rights in all of its original creations. You may use Epic-owned assets made available to you in UEFN in your island. However, you may not use recreated or otherwise obtained assets, maps, characters, music etc., from Fortnite or other Epic-owned properties without permission, either in your island or its metadata. For example, you may not recreate Battle Royale season assets in your island or metadata if they are not made available in UEFN.
So, I’d try to submit a version without any of Epics characters.
But I think there is a bit more nuance here. What if someone uses the NPC device to pose a character and uses that in a thumbnail? The 3 characters you show seem to be ripped from artwork. (Verifiable with reverse image search) - So If you’d like to include characters in your thumbnail, try posing and capturing them yourself.
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That’s the issue with my latest thumbnail, I posed and rendered them on Blender. I didn’t rip them off of any images. No idea why I still get rejected. The new subrule sucks
Holy crap, I tried a thumbnail with no characters and it’s still being rejected. Here’s what I did, nothing too special. I might just make a different game because this is happening
Have you tried making an appeal at https://safety.epicgames.com/en-US/sanctions-and-appeals/my-sanctions-and-appeals explaining that to your best knowledge it does not break the rules?
Hey, I did and that didn’t work, too. I already gave up on this map and started making a better one. Thanks for replying.
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