Legal Issue???

[Trenloe]

IANAL (or a coder) but I dont believe that the OPs use of altered images in his own campaign could constitute a breach of copyright.

The OP was asking about the legalities of posting the altered images publicly on the forums, not about using them in their own campaign.

[damned]

my bad - you are right - he does want to post them on a forum.
personally i would think it would be ok if he did strip the google logos and watermarks but stated that the images were derived from google maps.
but its not my website t o take that risk with so its probably best he doesnt post them - even though i think it would pass fair use interpretations.
other points suggest that because the data represented is factual information that is publicly available - you can see these streets with your own eyes etc - that it is not possible to protect via copyright - although the whole body of work is
another suggests that the scale of the copying (minute) means it would not even get as far as having to prove fair use - any claim would be dismissed outright...

but these are all interpretations and based on individual cases...

[sukEEt]

dang guys, yall are great ... thanks for all the info! I won't post them on the forum, but will definitely use them ... I found I can tweak the colors to make them look like a comic book so they will fit well with my MM3 campaign ... hehe

[damned]

you could post a screenshot from your game

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[sukEEt]

its a few months away, but sure thing ... how do i do that, can you capture the image with pring screen?

[Trenloe]

how do i do that, can you capture the image with pring screen?

Press the "Print Screen" (sometimes PrtScn or something similar) on your keyboard, Fantasy Grounds will automatically put a .PNG graphics file of the FG screen in your <FG App Data> directory. You can press it multiple times, your previous screen captures won't be overwritten.

[damned]

Press the "Print Screen" (sometimes PrtScn or something similar) on your keyboard, Fantasy Grounds will automatically put a .PNG graphics file of the FG screen in your <FG App Data> directory. You can press it multiple times, your previous screen captures won't be overwritten.

Ha! I was wondering where those screenshot files came from!

suKEET - when you upload your screenshot - convert it to JPG first - it will be a much lighter file that way...

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[Nylanfs]

Or just run it through scriptPNG