The copyright laws are very precise on this topic. Also, the publisher has paid real money for the images etc to print these decks. They continue to pay royalties (except U.S. Games who will not deal with anyone unless they can purchase all rights with a lump sum) to the creators. So any other 'publication', even if not for profit, cuts into not only the publisher but the person or persons who put a lot into creating these decks.
My suggestion, is find decks you really like that are self-published. Talk to the creators. They still own their publishing rights. They may be willing to work with you. I know this cause I am one of them. I posted a question about using this program on my site, or some such combination.
The thing is, I want my deck, all 88 cards, with their specific guidlines both upright and reversed, available through a link on my site to a program so people can try the deck before they buy. And maybe create some business for Orphalese too. It does work well with linked sites.
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Re: US Games and Tarot Card Images
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Like someone else in this thread, and I suspect many other people, I recently bought a tarot deck that I had downloaded with the p2p and enjoyed. How can tarot card companies not all see that they will actually gain sales from making their decks available to use in software packages?
Are they really worried that people will use the images to make their own physical decks from? It would be a lot of messing about and probably actually cost more than actually buying the deck. If they are worried about evil pirate tarot producers making pirate copies of their decks and selling them, well, such people could just buy one physical deck and then copy it anyway.
Are they maybe worried that people will use their decks in Orphalese instead of buying the deck in real life? I suppose one or two people might do this, but would they really have bought the deck instead if it hadn't been available electronically?
I would have thought that it was obvious that connecting with the users of tarot cards and establishing a community and being seen to (genuinally) care was the best way forward commercially.
Are they really worried that people will use the images to make their own physical decks from? It would be a lot of messing about and probably actually cost more than actually buying the deck. If they are worried about evil pirate tarot producers making pirate copies of their decks and selling them, well, such people could just buy one physical deck and then copy it anyway.
Are they maybe worried that people will use their decks in Orphalese instead of buying the deck in real life? I suppose one or two people might do this, but would they really have bought the deck instead if it hadn't been available electronically?
I would have thought that it was obvious that connecting with the users of tarot cards and establishing a community and being seen to (genuinally) care was the best way forward commercially.