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Transfer of map pages between campaigns

Is there a way to transfer map pages between campaigns? I am both the Owner and Co-GM of one campaign (A).   I am Co-GM of another campaign (B).   I would like to transfer map pages from A to B.   I just upgraded to Pro in the hope that the "Transmogrifyer" tool would do the job, only to find out that you apparently need to be the owner of both campaigns in order to use the tool.    I read on another forum post that there are potential copyright issues if pages or even whole campaigns contain content that was paid for.  This is not the case for either of the campaigns that i am referring to. Can ownership of campaigns be switched so that the Transmogrifyer tool can be used to solve the problem? Is there some way to Export map pages and then re-import them into another campaign?  [looking for a method that is more sophisticated than screen shots etc.] Background:  My group started using Roll20 relatively early.  We have one continuous game going on with two GMs that switch off game-mastering duties.  early on a second campaign was started at one of these GM switch points. This was done so that the GM taking over would have control.  It may not have been possible to "promote" someone to GM back then (or we did not know how to do it).  SO we ended up with one actual game spread over two Roll20 campaigns.
Unfortunately, the answer is 'no', for copyright reasons as you surmised. However, it is possible (but not easy!) to transfer some individual assets from one campaign to another, by using the co-gm thing. This would allow you to, for example, bring a single image from one campaign and place it on the map layer of another campaign. The image would be usable to the others in the new campaign, but it would not be 'saved' in their library (at least, as I understand it.) This is not  very useful if you have a 'map' that's set up with background, items, characters, props, notes, dynamic lighting, etc. But if you have a single background map, for example, and you want a copy of it in your new campaign, it is possible to do so. Because this may not be an intended function of the Roll20 system and their obvious (and reasonable) reluctance to make sharing copyrighted material easy, I leave the exact method of doing the above as an exercise for the reader. -Phnord the Pirate Who is Surprisingly Respectful of Copyrights
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I wanted to add a few words to this thread as I'm a friend of John W and understand his desire for this function. It seems fair and reasonable if the owners of two separate campaigns are at the right subscription level, and agree to set some kind of access privilege switch to allow it, that they should be able to copy and share content between their respective gamespaces. This would bypass a lot of tedious re-scanning and re-uploading image files and other data. I love Roll20 (Becoming a pro level subscriber almost immediately) and it does a lot of wonderful stuff that I'm really grateful for. I know the Orr Group is a very small company of hardworking artists and developers who are hard pressed to keep up with user suggestions but, it would be nice to see if the user community thinks this idea is generally useful enough to bump it higher on the to-do list. Perhaps this thread should be moved to the "Pro" or "Suggestions & Ideas" section to have the community vote on if this functionality is a good idea?