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A topic by racoongamer22 created Oct 10, 2022 Views: 758 Replies: 2
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Hi! Just saw maps from your generators sold on amazon as printed books by a few "authors", and they seem to be selling very, very  well. The books contain maps copy-pasted from your generators just as they are, without any modification by the book "authors". Is it ok with your license?  In the faq you said it's ok to include the maps in commercial rpg adventures but most of those books are simply bundles of maps generated by your software and copy-pasted without any (and i really mean ANY) sign of creativity.  To me it just seems really unfair for those people to be making thousands of dollars from your software (probably without any attribution).  Maybe amazon could do something about it?

btw. thanks for putting so much work into creating those generators, i'm a big fan :) 

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Hi! Yeah, I've seen those books and all this stuff is very depressing. Obviously, that's not what I meant by "use those maps as you like" and later I added the clause about "abusing the license". Of course, if people want to steal, they'll steal, but at least they won't be able to say "that guy gave us his permission". To clarify: they steal not from me (the generators are free for everybody), but from those who buy the books with maps they could get for free. I don't think Amazon will be willing to help without a sound license, but I don't want to make the license too formal to keep the generators accessible for those who'd like to use them in good faith. So I just hope those "authors" will go bankrupt eventually:) Cheers!

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Quick verification:  I am currently writing a LitRPG book and would like to use autogenerated maps because characters are my thing, not maps.  Is that okay?  I will be self-publishing on KU when finished.  It won't be a printed book of just maps, though.