Be warned, this journal is long. It's not supposed to be a rant but it might come off as one.
So I did some research regarding 'copyrights' and how they work. You can copyright you explicit work. What you can not copyright is species splices (two animals mashed together to make a new one), mythical creatures, color schemes, styles of artwork and names. The only way a species can be copyrighted is if it's not a splice of already existing animals, or if it's spliced of so many different animals it doesn't resemble one or the other anymore such as the 'Finnedyr', 'AoSaai', 'Felidoxy', etc. Those species' do not represent one animal or another.