A Way To Share Pic. Between Gms

This Would Be A Neat Thing To Have If You Can Share You Pic With Someone Else It Would Make Using Pics From One Campaign To another Easier When You Try To Take A Pic That Someone Else Loaded You End Up With a Pic That When Re-sized You Can Make Out Whats On IT

Yes, I agree, unfortunately there are reasons they don't allow it. Essentially the reason seems to be Copyright law, so they don't want people to share-trade-give-pass copyrighted images. But perhaps a way to understand it in practical terms is, think of the Marketplace on here, where you can buy $5 maps and $2 token packs, for example, which pays the artist and supports Roll20. If it was possible to share images between users within Roll20, then one person could buy the Marketplace and give the items away free to others. That would tend to dis-incentivize artists and Roll20 from creating, providing and innovating the wonderful collection that's available and growing in the Marketplace. What you can do is share images that you have the rights to share, through other services such as Dropbox, Photobucket, Imgur, WordPress, Blogspot, or email.

So Then, That Greatful Dead Pic You Got Doesn't That Break Copyright Laws?

Silv, a logo would be covered under Trademark law, more-so than Copyright -- a fascinating distinction if you compare them. That's cool you recognized it! I think it's more about preserving incentives for creative production, rather than "breaking" laws. Also I think it's more of how the website's policy works out to help protect the site and the Marketplace feature on here. But I'm just a fellow user, just trying to share my interpretation/experience.

Bill Graham Archives vs. Dorling Kindersley Ltd., 448 F.3d 605 (2nd Cir. 2006): Reproducing Grateful Dead posters within a book was ruled Fair Use by the 2nd circuit court, primarily because of the size reduction and use in a timeline. In US copyright law, there are four factors that are considered when determining Fair Use, including purpose of the reproduction (which includes whether the reproduction is of a commercial nature) and the size of the reproduction. I find it hard to see an argument where a forum avatar isn't Fair Use. (Although it is worth noting, Gold, that things can be both trademarked and copyrighted, and many logos are.) On the other hand, widespread distribution of materials, especially without means of policing the distribution, is extremely easy to use for breaking copyright laws. As such, it is in the Orr Group's interest to not implement such a feature. If you've got stuff you want to share legally, there are plenty of other ways to do it. Hell, if you've got an entire campaign full of stuff that you have the rights to distribute (and you must of or have permission for all of it), you could submit the campaign to the marketplace and make money off of sharing it. =) (My father listens to an all-Dead-all-the-time satellite radio channel. It's got studio recordings, concert recordings, and covers of Dead songs, plus stuff by Furthur, The Other Ones/The Dead, Rhythm Devils, and solo stuff from people that were at some point members of the Grateful Dead. Despite being "older than dirt" in his own words, he would still attend Furthur concerts, at least one a year if not more.)