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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8699944" data-attributes="member: 19857">Images are not a part of that - only text.  In general images are considered Product Identity.Not really - under US law the copyright on the image either belongs to the original artist or to whoever contracted them to draw it (depending on whether it was done Work for Hire or not). Stealing someone's copyrighted work is something that companies that traffic in IP have to be extra careful about because, well, it's their livelihood.There are all sorts of explanations:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The artist who created the poster is the same one who created the original image.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The artist who created the poster is a hack and traced the image from a reference on a light table.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The artist who created the poster had a list of monsters, googled their names, and stole the images they found to put into a collage under the mistaken idea that pictures on the Internet are public domain for remixing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The artist was given a bunch of references for monsters and was under the mistaken idea that they were able to be used to create a poster as is, rather than using them as a reference, and for some reason the Paizo bestiary was mixed in.</li> </ul>Unfortunately artists are not all angels and tracing other people's images or just taking images off the Internet and claiming them as their own is something that unscrupulous artists do all the time.  Also far too many people think that if you google something and drawings come up those images are public domain and free to remix - even professional artists have this misaprhension sometimes, which is crazy because they're in the industry but it happens.  If that's the case whoever owns the copyright - Paizo or the original artist - should probably contact eOne and/or Paramount and start asking if they're planning on paying for that image. Some graphic designer is likely in a heap of trouble once folks find out they've been using random unlicensed images off the internet.</blockquote>

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