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Question about the Legality of Making My Own Tokens

Hello everyone :) I have tons of books with pictures of characters, npcs, monsters, etc. If I scan or take a picture of these things, then use the rptools token creator to make my own tokens is that in violation of any copyright or ToU/ToA? Or, would that only come into play if I tried to sell them or give them out? May sound like a goofy question to some, but I just want to be certain it is okay. Thanks for any help you can provide :)
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Gold
Forum Champion
I believe using pictures in your personal campaign would be considered a Fair Use of the material (i.e. it's allowed under copyright). Distributing (like outside your personal campaign group) or selling would be more of a copyright infringement.
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Gen Kitty
Forum Champion
Making tokens for your personal game is fine. Copyright looms large when it comes to sharing or especially selling items.
If the image can just as easily be found via Google Images, then it really doesn't matter much. Sharing images does not violate any copyright laws, however distributing paid material does.
Thanks :)
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Nick S.
Pro
Marketplace Creator
Translator
Yup, you'll be fine as long as you don't share or sell them :)
I actually have a number of tokens I've bought from the marketplace, that I've edited for my purposes. I'm one of those anal guys that has to have character correct weapons and colors on their tokens.