delinfrey
Leaving the legal issues aside, it is trully quite dumb from Llewellyn's side to pull something like that, especially given that most of the knowledge about different Tarot decks (including theirs) comes from some sort of social media. In fact, I cannot recall even one Tarot deck that I bought without falling in love with the images beforehand (except an impulse buy of Golden Klimt).
That notwithstanding, it actually WOULD be quite difficult to make a good case against it (sorry, master lawyers). If the posts including the cards are depicted as a result of a daily activity (and not a scanned high-resolution image), especially if the owner of the image is listed, it would be very hard to stand against say an educational defense.
If I were to take a deck and then model an app upon it and sell it for 6.99, then it would be serious infringement. But as I recall, Tarot decks are copyrighted by deck, not by card.
That notwithstanding, it actually WOULD be quite difficult to make a good case against it (sorry, master lawyers). If the posts including the cards are depicted as a result of a daily activity (and not a scanned high-resolution image), especially if the owner of the image is listed, it would be very hard to stand against say an educational defense.
If I were to take a deck and then model an app upon it and sell it for 6.99, then it would be serious infringement. But as I recall, Tarot decks are copyrighted by deck, not by card.