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Would it be possible to add thumbnails of the item cards to the community use packages of images? A chunk of the cards have been posted to the blog already, and there are a whole pile of high resolution preview pictures in the product pages (for ex: http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paizoPublishingLLC/gameMastery/itemPacks /v5748btpy7z7i.
I'm asking because I noticed that a campaign over on obsidian portal was scanning the cards, turning them into thumbnails and using the images for their campaign, in a way similar to SKR's Tracking Sheet. They've since been taken down. Both their sheets and SKR's look really cool, and very useful.
I like using online wiki stuff for tracking and reporting game events, I own most of the decks of item cards and it would be handy to have a set of thumbnails that were CUP compliant that I could add to character sheets or encounter descriptions.
Personally, I'm very curious as to hear the Paizo side of the story.
From what the campaign GM has stated, here, it sounds as if what the campaign page had on it was fairly benign, and while I'm certainly not a copyright expert, seemed to me at least, reasonable as personal use. Since it seems other people use Paizo art for campaign wiki/web use, the cease and desist just doesn't mesh with the Paizo I've come to see as very pro-customer. It makes me think their might be more to the story.
Paizo in the past has been *exceptionally* open-minded and generous with their content. They have explicitly told fans previously that they do not care if fans extract and reuse art from various products and even share it with other members of their direct gaming groups, but they can not share said images over the net with the "general public." This to me seems, once again, more than reasonable. So I think it comes down to, if these images were being shared openly on a public site, its not unreasonable to ask them to take them down. So, before people start jumping on Paizo's back about this I'd like to suggest people keep in mind their very open and generous history in this regard.
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We have a Community Use Policy that many people consider very generous. But it does *not* include the free use of any and all content we publish; we've listed the things we've listed—and *not* listed the things we've not listed—only after careful consideration.
One thing I'd note is that if you're holding something in your hand that includes a copyright statement, and you're thinking about scanning it in and putting it up on your website for anyone to access, you *might* want to find out what the owner of that copyright thinks about you doing that first. (And if think you're going to claim "Fair Use," you should probably consult a copyright attorney to ensure that you know what that really means.)