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Originally Posted by Darkwolf71  IANAL, but as I understand it the GSL applies to publishers only. Fans should be able to do pretty much what ever they want, as long as they don't sell it. Now, I know there is supposed to be a 'fan web-site' document in the works, but I'm not sure how they can restrict what goes on 'behind closed doors', so to speak. |
Yeah, "Behind closed doors" they can't do anything about it, and I think you can legally do pretty much anything you want. However, once things start being posted on fan sites, then
WoTC can have a say in it. They can very well have their lawyers send a cease and desist letter, and unless you have the resources to pay for lawyers and fight it, you pretty much don't have an option. In all fairness though, I don't think I've heard of any real incidents where
WoTC has sent cease and desist letters to fansites although I may be wrong (now TSR was another matter entirely). The
OGL was really open however, and could be interpreted very loosely (as can be seen by the plethora of
3pp that basically broke the spirit of what
WoTC was trying to do with the
OGL), so it probably would have been rather hard to enforce violations on fansites. Although if
WoTC had wanted to, I doubt there are too many fan sites that could afford to go head to head with
WoTC lawyers.
But I think with the restrictiveness of the
GSL, people may be afraid they will be that much stricter with fan sites also. But who really knows until we see their guidelines.
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