#HIVEMOTHER BEHOLDER TOKEN LICENSE#

The suggestion to utilize the target names in search tags is reasonable.

I am most certainly going to play it safe and use the terms, 'gaping demon', 'gorgon', and 'undead centaur' to my certain media detriment in order to duck the legal hammer of Thor. I am working on a demon pack that would hold a lot more search power if I could use the established index names and terminology for their types. This post means a lot to me and I share the authors worry and frustrations. I don't call attention to these in order to tattle or anything, they just illustrate the point of my frustration.

Not to mention, WotC has also copyrighted the term 'Underdark'. The third search result is titled Chibi Underdark Pack which contains two Beholders (named Beholder) as well as 2 Mind Flayers, again, named exactly that. It's not a licensed product, but it contains 18 tokens, all named Beholder (01-xx or zombie or whatever). That said, just type 'beholder' in the search field, and the very first link that appears is titled Behold. I appreciate the idea, and I may very well give this a shot, hoping my assets stand out for themselves. So you won't be losing sales by not calling the token a beholder. None of the eye monster tokens was named a beholder. said: I looked through the top-selling 8 or so marketplace items that were not licensed products. TL DR: Can I create a Beholder token to sell without getting sued and, if not, why are there so many already up there for sale?īrian C. Ultimately as a creator, I'm responsible for the content I post, but seeing how often Beholders show up in the marketplace has me looking for solid answers. Now, I know Wizards has bigger fish to fry and would rather not spend time and money going after some starving artists selling digital tokens for a few bucks, but there still seems to be a question of legality when it comes to the content that A) Marketplace creators can create and B) Roll20 publishes.

Right there, out in the open and I seriously doubt they got permission from WotC to sell them. That seemed pretty straight forward, but even a quick glance at the Roll20 marketplace has over a dozen token packs that include Beholders, with that exact name and the likeness you'd expect, along with Mindflayers and a number of others laid out in the SRD as being off-limits. However, certain things are disallowed - for instance, a creator might make a token with what looks to be a Beholder, but it cannot be named as a 'Beholder'.

#HIVEMOTHER BEHOLDER TOKEN LICENSE#

I was referred to the document by a Roll20 rep when I asked about what I could and could not create, token-wise in my case: So those use the D&D5e Open Game License and System Reference Document to allow others to use those pieces of intellectual property to make things to sell. For example, paragraph 4 of the latest SRD (2016) specifically calls out Beholders as a designated Product Identity item and therefore off-limits to third party creators without express written consent. According to the WotC SRD for D&D, there are a number of named characters, locations, items and creatures that fall under exclusive copyright through the publisher. I searched around the forums and at one point even asked support directly about this, but to say there are conflicts would be an understatement.

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