Does anyone know artists or websites that have started putting up Starfinder-inspired art, especially character portraits?
Search Pinterest for Starfinder/Cyberpunk images and you'll find a lot of stuff.
Also hit up DeviantArt and wallow in the sheer breadth and depth of art available for everything you could ever care to look up.
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http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j462/PaladinDemo/IMG_20171122_203311852 .jpg
http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j462/PaladinDemo/IMG_20171111_090621667 _1.jpg
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So I clicked on these links on my laptop and they don't work but I sure got a lot of pop ups.
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New question: if I want to find open-license artwork that I can use for free on a non-commercial blog, is there a site that is good for finding art that is pre-screened for IP licensing?
If it is non commercial why don't you just credit the artist? I think the main issue would be if you are profiting off their work which you wouldn't be.
OK, I don't have much understanding of IP law, but I thought you are generally prohibited from reproducing other people's artwork unless given permission.
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OK, I don't have much understanding of IP law, but I thought you are generally prohibited from reproducing other people's artwork unless given permission.
You are. And you really should contact the artist even if it is for a non-profit use, as they can still come after you for it. I don't think many would, but they have the legal right to.
OK, I don't have much understanding of IP law, but I thought you are generally prohibited from reproducing other people's artwork unless given permission.You are. And you really should contact the artist even if it is for a non-profit use, as they can still come after you for it. I don't think many would, but they have the legal right to.
What does "fair use" mean in a legal sense?
So I clicked on these links on my laptop and they don't work but I sure got a lot of pop ups.
I hate my phone half the time.
I hate my phone half the time.So I clicked on these links on my laptop and they don't work but I sure got a lot of pop ups.
Not your phone's fault, the forum breaks up long text strings with spaces. You can get around it by linking instead of C&Ping the URL.
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What does "fair use" mean in a legal sense?OK, I don't have much understanding of IP law, but I thought you are generally prohibited from reproducing other people's artwork unless given permission.You are. And you really should contact the artist even if it is for a non-profit use, as they can still come after you for it. I don't think many would, but they have the legal right to.
I'm not a lawyer, so I wouldn't speculate.
Here's a good explainer
Here's a good explainer
Following the chart on that website, you CAN use art if you are using it for non profit. Again, giving credit or even links to the artist would be awesome. Since it is Fair Use you are good.
Well, that's not what courts have ruled. Let me look at that again.
ETA:
Oh dear, yes. That first box about Fair Use is totally wrong. Let me see if I can find a better website.
Most of the good ones are oriented to academic publishing and classroom use. But I may know of one that is more general
Just to reiterate: "not-for-profit" means a business set up under the "not-for-profit" section of laws that govern creating a corporation. It does not mean "I'm not making money off of this".
And even legal nfp corporations can't use copyrighted material without permission. They can be sued for copyright violation just like anyone else.
Ok, here's a better article, from a copyright lawyer
As you can see, there's nothing about not-for-profit in the guidelines
In the comments they talk about fanfiction which this basically is.
In the comments they talk about fanfiction which this basically is.
I don't see anything like that in the article by the lawyer, even in the comments
For non-Paizo art, it really depends on the artist. Paizo has been quite clear which art work is available for fanfic
Look for various levels of Creative Commons licenses, and if you don't see it explicitly mention, then you need to contact the artist for permission.
In the US, all art is automatically "all rights reserved" from the moment it is created. Unless the artist explicitly gives you permission, you can only use the work for, essentially, criticism/analysis or parody
I can't comment on fair usage but another source of character art for Human (and with some photoshop) Androids and Lashuntas is the Eve Online character portrait system.
Just open an alpha account so there is no charge for the game, use the character creator to create a portrait you like and once in the game you can capture the portrait and it will save to the EvE folder in My Documents. {Open up the character interface (Top Left); click on the name; click on the small portrait on the left which should open up the portrait in a larger window then right click and select capture portrait}.
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New question: if I want to find open-license artwork that I can use for free on a non-commercial blog, is there a site that is good for finding art that is pre-screened for IP licensing?
You may want to check out some of the concept art at OpenGameArt, which I believe is built on the Open Art License (which in turn does allow non-commercial reuse with specific attribution).
Alternately if you find something on, say, DeviantArt or a similar site that you'd love to use on your blog, you can just contact the artist and ask for permission. Having the courtesy to do this goes a long way; people are often very cool about it if you ask and offer to recognise the source of the work, even if they're not explicitly Open Art.
Pinterest Starfinder board
If it helps, I also started a Pinterest collection of Sci-Fi- and Fantasy-themed art a while back.
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What does "fair use" mean in a legal sense?
A lot of lawyers get paid a lot of money to try to answer that question. (I am, however, very confident that the safest legal definition is FAR narrower than the average person expects.)
You might want to look at the US Copyright Office's Fair Use Index, the goal of which is "to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody)."
