Using Art in Fantasy Grounds during a Stream?

[OTG_Wraith]

You can read it from his own post.

But, this shouldn't be an issue revolving around fear of being sued. You should ask permission for and pay for copyrighted content because this is a very slim margin industry. The people making all the cool art, rulesets, modules, and just about everything else you enjoy using are working for a very small paycheck. For the one or two successes in each field whether it be game design, art, music or performance art like Critical Role you have many more hundreds or thousands barely making ends meet from their income on their products.

If you buy the art, module, or music with the appropriate licenses and you don't want to give credit, that's one thing, still not great, but they got their income. For the ones trying to make a name however, sometimes word of mouth is all they have. When someone in chat mentions how cool that map is, or asks where you got those tokens or image it would help a lot if you could give them a link and a name rather than just shrug and say, "somewhere off the internet". It could be the difference between you getting another possibly even cooler image/music/map/token from that artist or them tossing in the towel.

[Myrdin Potter]

The case where he said he had an issue was a promotional video, not the actual playing of the game. He used a lot of unrelated, copyright art in a promotitional video for a commercial enterprise.

I have not heard of any issues where people have been playing modules and used the art that came with it. Home brew is different as the artist never has been paid for the work to be displayed in the manner you say.

Artists are like anyone else, they work, they deserve to get paid. There is a lot of stock art for very cheap and lots and lots of royalty free photos that can be used with just a little bit of effort, and lots of maps in the public domain.

Music they actually have automated software that listens for it and most of the major streaming platforms have been made to use it by the indistry. That is something that there are centuries of cases and ip and laws around performing vs. listening at home.

[Topdecker]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A mountain of copyright-free materials - all you have to do is to take the time to search it.

[LordEntrails]

You can also set you Google image search criteria by license type.

[ddavison]

All the official packages available in the store here are set up to allow you to use during streams if you want. That is one of the reasons I negotiated a deal with the folks over at Beamdog is so that myself and other players would be able to use the cool player portraits from Baldur's Gate and their other games within Fantasy Grounds streams.