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<blockquote data-quote="Caerin" data-source="post: 5614204" data-attributes="member: 3991"><p>It's hard to be more critical without seeing the message or the images in question.</p><p></p><p>But I'll bite; I criticized WotC's lawsuits, and remained a 4E player. I really, really like Paizo and really, really like the folks there, and I now also play the Pathfinder RPG. From reading the messages on Obsidian Portal, I suspect the person there has at least overreacted a bit, and it's certainly possible that the message was delivered third hand (IE, Paizo -> OP -> OP User). </p><p></p><p>From the Paizo boards, I know that some folks (and I'm not saying that these people are Paizo employees, only posters) don't understand that the Community Use policy, as generous as it is, is not the only way you can use Paizo's copyrighted material. The most obvious example is fair use; the vagueness of fair use under US copyright law makes too much of a deep discussion in this context moot, since each person will have his or her opinion. In my opinion, if the depiction of the images is as reported, its use is probably fair. As various assertions and corrections on this board and in this thread show, though, an RPG board is probably not the best place for a copyright discussion. ^_^</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caerin, post: 5614204, member: 3991"] It's hard to be more critical without seeing the message or the images in question. But I'll bite; I criticized WotC's lawsuits, and remained a 4E player. I really, really like Paizo and really, really like the folks there, and I now also play the Pathfinder RPG. From reading the messages on Obsidian Portal, I suspect the person there has at least overreacted a bit, and it's certainly possible that the message was delivered third hand (IE, Paizo -> OP -> OP User). From the Paizo boards, I know that some folks (and I'm not saying that these people are Paizo employees, only posters) don't understand that the Community Use policy, as generous as it is, is not the only way you can use Paizo's copyrighted material. The most obvious example is fair use; the vagueness of fair use under US copyright law makes too much of a deep discussion in this context moot, since each person will have his or her opinion. In my opinion, if the depiction of the images is as reported, its use is probably fair. As various assertions and corrections on this board and in this thread show, though, an RPG board is probably not the best place for a copyright discussion. ^_^ [/QUOTE]
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