Aina
OK so there are hundreds of blogs on tarot, such as daily reading blogs, instructional, collectors and so on. Most of them use tarot card images, scans and photos because (naturally) imagery is important in tarot and if it's a review or collector's blog, the image is very important.
However we all know that these images are copyrighted and, as far as I know, only 6 images are allowed in a review. However I can swear that bloggers use a lot more that that! Now, why I am posting this is because I also have a blog that is my online tarot journal and it's full of scans (it's currently on private). I love my blog to be full of images but I sometimes worry about being punished somehow because of this copyright. So I decided to keep it private.
Anyway, do you have any opinions/info on this? I'm sure everybody will agree about the importance of showing the card images (would someone read a tarot blog that doesn't have images? ). From the other side though, what do those that own copyrights to tarot decks (Us Games, Lo Scarabeo, independent publishers) think about so many images being showed all over the net and what is the real copyright law of the tarot cards?
However we all know that these images are copyrighted and, as far as I know, only 6 images are allowed in a review. However I can swear that bloggers use a lot more that that! Now, why I am posting this is because I also have a blog that is my online tarot journal and it's full of scans (it's currently on private). I love my blog to be full of images but I sometimes worry about being punished somehow because of this copyright. So I decided to keep it private.
Anyway, do you have any opinions/info on this? I'm sure everybody will agree about the importance of showing the card images (would someone read a tarot blog that doesn't have images? ). From the other side though, what do those that own copyrights to tarot decks (Us Games, Lo Scarabeo, independent publishers) think about so many images being showed all over the net and what is the real copyright law of the tarot cards?