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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2202969" data-attributes="member: 19675">(Entertainment & Sports Lawyer)As time passes and economies become increasingly intertwined, international copyright laws are tending to converge.Most "1st World" nations are signatories to all the major international Intellectual Property treaties, like the Berne Convention.As such, more countries are increasing the transparency of their borders for copyright infringement...or, in layman's terms:"Even if you never set foot in the USA, the FBI can get you into the US courts for copyright infringement cases...and INTERPOL can do the reciprocal for Europeans..."And those lawsuits can reach into $100k's per violation.As for being peeved- it depends on the artist, how their art was used, and how much of it was used.  If I saw my "Tryptich of Dragon and Slayer" plastered all over your website, I'd be pretty peeved- and if you used it as the cover of the Core Rulebooks for your own self-published game, there would soon be a knock on your door from a cadaverous lawyer who looks like the main villain from the Phantasm movies and 2 LARGE constables to confiscate all your stuff pending the lawsuit.However, if you just used an extreme closeup of the Dragon's head as a piece of avatar art for your message boards, I'd probably be cool with that...But then again, I'm not one of the big boys like Boris Vallejo or Frank Frazetta, etc.However, there are hundreds of thousands of pieces of art that are in the public domain...pretty much anything from before 1900 is safe to use as you will.</blockquote>

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