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<blockquote data-quote="The Oracle" data-source="post: 45903" data-attributes="member: 1633"><p>OGL is for publishing, i.e., for money. For free, you can do what you want, realistically, although if you try to give away pdf's of actual products, they will probably stop you. </p><p></p><p>Graphics copyright law, not the OGL, is what you need to worry about because you are not using any words, unless they are names of creatures. Names are not copyrightable. That's why companies use made up words for products, because those words are trademarkable if not common. So, fair use of monsters names not invented by WotC. </p><p></p><p>Pictures made by others, if not modified, belong to them. That's copyright. But if you modify all the pictures, you enter a grey area of derivative work, and you probably are okay. Modified is NOT cropping out details or using only the heads of pictures. That's your actual problem. There are ways around even that, such as using filters, that would make your work original enough. If you are going to sell this, you will need a copyright attorney to square it away, and it won't be worth it. If you want to e-mail it to your friends, no one will stop you. Posting it on this board, if possible, without getting the copyrights or making the artwork your own is probably not legal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Oracle, post: 45903, member: 1633"] OGL is for publishing, i.e., for money. For free, you can do what you want, realistically, although if you try to give away pdf's of actual products, they will probably stop you. Graphics copyright law, not the OGL, is what you need to worry about because you are not using any words, unless they are names of creatures. Names are not copyrightable. That's why companies use made up words for products, because those words are trademarkable if not common. So, fair use of monsters names not invented by WotC. Pictures made by others, if not modified, belong to them. That's copyright. But if you modify all the pictures, you enter a grey area of derivative work, and you probably are okay. Modified is NOT cropping out details or using only the heads of pictures. That's your actual problem. There are ways around even that, such as using filters, that would make your work original enough. If you are going to sell this, you will need a copyright attorney to square it away, and it won't be worth it. If you want to e-mail it to your friends, no one will stop you. Posting it on this board, if possible, without getting the copyrights or making the artwork your own is probably not legal. [/QUOTE]
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