Hello there. My question is: Are they commercial free to use in my game projects? I want to use them in an RPGMaker game. When I credit you am I good to go? (all of your tokens, not only this set)
Thanks in advance ^^
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The creator's explanation is confusing! He himself said that they are in the public domain. He assembled these tokens probably into Token Stamp. Therefore, he could only charge for the work of making them and I agree. However, you do not need to ask for permission, since these illustrations belong to their respective illustrators, and are already in the public domain, you can use them as you please. So I ask: he used a free editor (not developed by him) and took illustrations in the public domain, which also do not belong to him, with what legal authorization does he have to propose a commercial agreement? If he formally has an authorization for commercial purposes, I remain silent!
I have edited many of the images that I used in ways beyond just cropping them. A lot of time was spent in Affinity Photo doing these edits so that they'd look good inside the token ring. I believe that this would qualify as making them my own. However, I'm not a lawyer or an expert in copyright law and maybe that doesn't count. I'm reality, I don't have the resources to pursue any legal action against anyone and wouldn't really want to do so either. What I do know is that I spent a lot of time and energy curating thousands of images and then editing hundreds of them to create the tokens. So at very least, it'd kinda be a jerk move to take them and apply them to some commercial projects without my blessing. If someone wants to do that, I'd encourage them to instead look for the same or similar public domain images and create their own tokens.