Copyright and Intellectual Property

Last updated: 02/11/2026

1. Introduction

This notice governs the use of content protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights associated with the brand “Handcrafted Heroes by Musha Miniatures” and the website www.handcraftedheroes.it.

Its purpose is to:

  • clarify ownership of the rights;
  • define the use permitted to Customers and users of the Website;
  • prohibit unauthorised uses, including using the content to train artificial intelligence systems, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

2. Rights Holder

Unless otherwise indicated in individual works, legal notices or credits, intellectual property rights in content associated with the brand Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures belong to:

  • MUSHA MURRON ENTERPRISE (sole proprietorship). Owner: Maria Alberta Iaia

Third-party content is also used under licence or with specific permission (e.g. illustrations, maps, fonts, textures, music, photographs, commissioned or purchased graphic assets). The respective rights remain with their owners, as indicated in the credits or accompanying materials.

3. Protected Works and Content

By way of example and without limitation, the following are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights:

  • Texts, rules, adventures, campaigns, quests, descriptions of objects, events and places;
  • Settings, lore, worldbuilding, timelines, mythologies, faction systems, religions and pantheons;
  • Characters (player characters, NPCs, antagonists, original creatures), proper names, titles of works and product lines;
  • Illustrations, concept art, covers, cartoons, graphic elements and icons;
  • Logos, trademarks and trade names (“Handcrafted Heroes”, “Musha Miniatures”, names of lines, modules and series);
  • Miniatures, sculptures and physical models;
  • 3D models, digital files and projects relating to miniatures and components;
  • Photographs of products, photographic sets and promotional images;
  • Videos, trailers, actual plays and original multimedia content;
  • Soundtracks, original musical compositions and other audio works, where present;
  • Maps (of locations, dungeons, cities, regions and planets), floor plans and original cartography;
  • Page designs, graphic layouts, interface designs and printed materials;
  • Graphics, patterns, textures, frames and UI elements of digital products and the Website;
  • Downloadable materials (character sheets, handouts, reference sheets, etc.);
  • Website content (texts, images, structure and organisation of content).

Works created by using, adapting or expanding System Reference Documents (SRDs) and the Open Game License (OGL) are also protected to the extent that they incorporate original content identified as Product Identity in the relevant legal notices.

4. Permitted Personal Use

Unless otherwise specified in individual works or licences:

  • Customers purchasing physical products under the Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures brand receive a limited licence for personal, non-commercial use of the content incorporated in those products.
  • Such content may be used for personal or group play (home sessions, private events and campaigns); personal display of miniatures; reading and consulting rulebooks, adventures and narrative materials; and creating non-commercial fan art, provided this does not conflict with the Rights Holder’s rights and complies with these terms (more specific fan content policies may be published separately).

The following activities may be permitted for strictly personal, non-commercial use, where technically relevant:

  • photographing purchased products and sharing the photographs on social media or other media while crediting the Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures brand;
  • using physical miniatures in photographs, videos, streams or actual plays, crediting the brand and linking to the Website where possible;
  • printing any information materials or sheets made available by the Rights Holder for personal use.

Any use beyond personal, non-commercial use requires the Rights Holder’s prior written consent.

4.1 Free Saga Abstracts

The Broken Oath and Medèrra world lore guides offered on their saga pages are free PDF introductions, available in Italian and English without an account, purchase or newsletter subscription. They are previews of the settings, not the complete paid adventures.

You may download, save, read and print these guides for personal, non-commercial use, including use with your private gaming group. Copyright and credits remain with the respective rights holders. Free availability does not grant permission to sell, republish, upload or redistribute the files, or commercially adapt their content, unless separately authorised or permitted by applicable law or an applicable third-party licence. To introduce others to these worlds, share the official saga-page links.

5. Expressly Prohibited Uses (Without Written Permission)

Unless otherwise authorised in writing by the Rights Holder, the following are prohibited:

  1. Reproduction and distribution: reproducing, copying in whole or in part, scanning or digitising rulebooks, adventures, maps, sheets, illustrations, photographs, videos, soundtracks and other content; distributing, communicating to the public or making available (online or offline) physical or digital copies of the works in any format; uploading files or scans of products to file-sharing platforms, social networks, digital marketplaces or your own or third-party websites.
  2. Unauthorised modification, adaptation and translation: modifying, adapting, translating or reworking protected content (texts, images, models, etc.) for commercial purposes or to create derivative versions for public distribution; using the content or parts of it as a basis for other publications, games, settings or rulebooks intended for sale or commercial distribution.
  3. Sale, licensing and sublicensing: selling, sublicensing, renting, transferring or allowing third parties to use the Rights Holder’s content in any form (physical or digital), except when reselling the original physical product purchased (e.g. selling the original rulebook second-hand); commercially exploiting miniatures, models, illustrations or stories without a contractual agreement with the Rights Holder.
  4. Uploading to other websites, illegal sharing and file extraction: uploading, publishing or distributing digital copies (PDF, JPG, PNG, STL, etc.) on unauthorised websites, repositories, sales or sharing platforms (free or paid); extracting digital files from products supplied by the Rights Holder (if introduced in future) to share them with third parties outside the licence terms.
  5. Scanning rulebooks and unauthorised copies of miniatures: scanning rulebooks or other printed materials for sharing; 3D-scanning miniatures or models to replicate them, 3D-print them or distribute their files; carrying out or commissioning recasting or mass reproduction of miniatures or parts of them, in any material and at any scale.
  6. Unauthorised commercial use: using the Rights Holder’s content (texts, illustrations, miniatures, settings, trademarks, characters, logos, maps, etc.) to print or produce merchandise or physical or digital products intended for sale; organise paid events, campaigns or promotional products substantially based on the Rights Holder’s content; create and sell digital content, modules or adaptations compatible with the Rights Holder’s game systems without prior permission.
  7. Use for training artificial intelligence systems: using the Rights Holder’s original content (including texts, images, 3D models, audio, videos, maps, layouts, miniatures, etc.) to train, refine or validate artificial intelligence systems (machine learning, generative AI, etc.) where this is not provided for by applicable law or covered by an express statutory exception; systematically supplying third parties with datasets or corpora containing the Rights Holder’s works for AI model training purposes.

Any unauthorised use will constitute an infringement of intellectual property rights and may be pursued before the competent authorities.

6. System Reference Documents (SRDs), OGL and Creative Commons

Some Handcrafted Heroes products may include material from:

  • System Reference Document (SRD) 5.1 and SRD 5.2.1 by Wizards of the Coast LLC, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence;
  • content released under the Open Game License (OGL) v. 1.0a.

As stated in the SRD legal notices and the Open Game License included in the product materials:

  • parts of game mechanics, procedures, rules and content designated as Open Game Content (OGC) may be reused by third parties within the limits and under the conditions of the respective licence;
  • all original elements introduced by Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures (in particular names, characters, stories, settings, artwork, proprietary systems such as Primordial Fragments, the Resonance system, Chaos Cards, Lore Cards and any other expressly identified Product Identity) are not Open Game Content and may not be reused without written permission.

Customers must consult the legal notices within each product (SRD, OGL, CC BY, Open Game Content and Product Identity declarations) to check which portions may actually be reused and under what conditions.

7. Third-Party Trademarks and Compatibility with Game Systems

Any references to third-party trademarks (e.g. roleplaying game systems from other publishers) on products or the Website:

  • are used solely for descriptive or compatibility purposes;
  • remain the exclusive property of their respective owners;
  • do not imply any affiliation, sponsorship or official endorsement unless expressly stated otherwise.

8. Infringements and Reports

Anyone who believes that Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures content has been used or distributed in breach of these terms or the Rights Holder’s rights is invited to report it by email to support@handcrafted-heroes.com, providing:

  • a description of the alleged infringement;
  • links to or evidence of the content concerned;
  • any supporting documents.

The Rights Holder reserves the right to take all necessary measures to protect its rights, including cease-and-desist notices, requests to remove unlawful content and, where appropriate, legal proceedings.

Information to Complete/Verify Internally

  • Details of the trademark registration certificate for Handcrafted Heroes / Musha Miniatures (registration details, classes and jurisdictions), if these are to be included expressly;
  • Possible publication of a more detailed Fan Content Policy with specific rules and conditions for fan art, streaming, actual plays, etc.;
  • Updating the SRD/OGL/CC BY sections to reflect the individual products actually published.

5. Disclaimer

Last updated: 30/07/2026

1. Nature of the Products and Intended Use

Products offered by Handcrafted Heroes by Musha Miniatures are primarily intended for:

  • tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs);
  • collecting and hobbies involving miniatures, painting and crafts;
  • narrative and gaming entertainment.

All references to stories, characters, places, events and settings are fictional; any resemblance to real people, places or events is purely coincidental unless otherwise specifically stated.

The products are not intended to provide professional advice of any kind (legal, medical, psychological, financial, etc.) or to replace qualified professional services.

2. Compatibility with Third-Party Game Systems

Some products may be described as compatible with or inspired by specific roleplaying game systems (e.g. the fifth edition of “the world’s most famous roleplaying game”) on the basis of:

  • the use of System Reference Documents (SRDs) released under open licences;
  • the use of the Open Game License (OGL) and/or Creative Commons licences for rules and mechanics components.

Any wording such as “compatible with the fifth edition” or similar:

  • is purely descriptive;
  • does not in any way imply that Handcrafted Heroes products are official, approved, sponsored by or affiliated with the publisher owning those systems, unless expressly agreed in writing and disclosed.

Names, trademarks and logos such as Dungeons & Dragons, Wizards of the Coast and other third-party distinctive signs belong to their respective owners and, where present, are used solely to indicate compatibility, inspiration or genre, in accordance with fair use and the applicable licences.

3. Variations Due to Handmade Production and Hand Painting

Many Handcrafted Heroes miniatures and products are handmade and/or hand-painted.

This means that:

  • there may be colour differences between photographs on the Website and the product actually delivered due to lighting, exposure and colour balance settings during photography; the user’s screen type and display settings; and natural handmade variations in colour application and painting details;
  • each piece may have slight differences from other examples of the same model (shading, colour intensity and small details).

These aesthetic variations are considered an integral part of the product’s handmade value and do not constitute a defect, except for substantial deviations from what is reasonably expected and described.

Product photographs and images are illustrative/indicative and do not guarantee that the colours or details of every individual item will match perfectly.

4. Safety, Small Parts and Supervision

Many products, particularly miniatures, contain small parts that may pose a choking hazard if swallowed or handled improperly, particularly by children under 3 years of age.

It is therefore recommended that:

  • products be kept out of reach of very young children;
  • use in the presence of minors always take place under appropriate adult supervision;
  • when assembling or painting products yourself, follow the precautions provided by the material manufacturer (e.g. glues, primers, paints and sprays).

Improper use of the products (e.g. throwing, swallowing, structural tampering or using them as blunt objects) is the sole responsibility of the user. The Seller is not liable for damage resulting from clearly improper use or use contrary to reasonably foreseeable warnings.

5. Age Restrictions

The Website also allows purchases by Customers under 18, provided that:

  • this does not conflict with the laws of the user’s country of residence;
  • the purchase is made with the consent and under the responsibility of a parent or legal guardian, where required by law.

The responsible adult must check the suitability of the content (e.g. any mature themes in adventures or illustrations) for the minor’s age.

6. Website Operation and Service Availability

The Seller takes reasonable measures to keep the Website available, secure and up to date, but does not guarantee that:

  • the Website will be free from errors, interruptions or technical malfunctions;
  • access will be continuous and uninterrupted at all times.

The Seller reserves the right to:

  • temporarily or permanently suspend access to the Website or parts of it for maintenance, updates or other technical or organisational reasons;
  • modify, update or remove Website content, products or features at any time without notice, while respecting orders already concluded.

Clerical errors (e.g. outdated descriptions, typos or pricing errors) will be corrected without unreasonable delay once identified. If errors materially affect orders already placed (e.g. obvious pricing errors), the Seller will promptly inform the Customer to agree on a correction or cancellation with a refund.

7. Links to External Websites

The Website may contain links, banners or references to third-party websites, services or resources.

Such links:

  • are provided solely for the user’s convenience;
  • do not imply any approval, sponsorship or formal affiliation between the Seller and the operators of third-party websites unless otherwise stated;
  • do not entail the Seller assuming responsibility for the content, products, services, privacy policies or security practices of those third parties.

Users are invited to consult the terms of use and privacy/cookie policies of each third-party website before using it.

8. Liability Within Statutory Limits

Nothing in this disclaimer is intended to exclude or limit the Seller’s liability where it cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (e.g. damage caused by wilful misconduct or gross negligence).

Subject to the Consumer’s mandatory rights and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Seller:

  • is not liable for indirect, consequential or non-material damage (such as loss of opportunity, goodwill or reputation), except where such liability cannot legally be excluded;
  • is not liable for damage resulting from improper use of the products or failure to follow reasonably provided instructions and warnings.

The Consumer’s statutory guarantee of conformity for consumer goods and any other mandatory rights under applicable law remain unaffected.

Matters to Verify/Complete Internally

  • Possible introduction of a recommended age rating for individual products or lines, to be included on product pages as well;
  • Additional safety warnings specific to certain materials or components (e.g. resins, metals, glues and paints).