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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 8703690" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>It likely was approved. But approvals are more for making sure it matches branding and stuff like that rather than checking for potential rights issues. Stuff like that the ampersand logo is the right shape and the right font is used on for the text and any original art matches the designs from the books and stuff like that. That's definitely an Intellect Devourer and WotC owns a lot of art of Intellect Devourers and it's a brain with feet and a tongue so it's not like a human character or something easily recognizable. If they'd had Kyra the Cleric in there, <em>that </em>would've gotten noticed. But unless you're very familiar with Pathfinder art, you're not likely to notice and even then, you'd have to look at the two images side-by-side to really tell. But when you do, it's obvious.</p><p></p><p>It was likely just a mistake with use of reference material rather than any sort of intentional plagiarism. It's also not some huge big deal and likely will get resolved behind the scenes between WotC and Paizo with a phone call and maybe WotC writes Paizo a check and/or maybe they pulp the posters and redo them (if they even mass printed them at all and it wasn't a one-off for SDCC), but it's highly doubtful this will be some big huge deal like legal threats or a lawsuit. And it's also unlikely we'll ever know how it's resolved (if it is, neither side may care enough to bother) because at most we'll get a statement like "We have reached an amicable resolution" and that's it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 8703690, member: 6669048"] It likely was approved. But approvals are more for making sure it matches branding and stuff like that rather than checking for potential rights issues. Stuff like that the ampersand logo is the right shape and the right font is used on for the text and any original art matches the designs from the books and stuff like that. That's definitely an Intellect Devourer and WotC owns a lot of art of Intellect Devourers and it's a brain with feet and a tongue so it's not like a human character or something easily recognizable. If they'd had Kyra the Cleric in there, [I]that [/I]would've gotten noticed. But unless you're very familiar with Pathfinder art, you're not likely to notice and even then, you'd have to look at the two images side-by-side to really tell. But when you do, it's obvious. It was likely just a mistake with use of reference material rather than any sort of intentional plagiarism. It's also not some huge big deal and likely will get resolved behind the scenes between WotC and Paizo with a phone call and maybe WotC writes Paizo a check and/or maybe they pulp the posters and redo them (if they even mass printed them at all and it wasn't a one-off for SDCC), but it's highly doubtful this will be some big huge deal like legal threats or a lawsuit. And it's also unlikely we'll ever know how it's resolved (if it is, neither side may care enough to bother) because at most we'll get a statement like "We have reached an amicable resolution" and that's it. [/QUOTE]
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