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This is not correct. The appearance of Darth Vader is not a trademark. “Disney” is a trademark; Darth Vader is not. It is a copyright issue.

The ENnie Awards has just announced the award nominations for 2025--and included in them, in Best Streaming Content, is the This Week In TTRPG show hosted every Friday by Jessica Hancock! This is the first ever award nomination of any kind in 26 years for EN World or EN Publishing, so we'll be...

Livestreaming as always today at 2pm UK time (9am ET)! This week we'll be talking about how Diamond Distributors has screwed over a bunch of publishers, the new solo play guidelines in D&D's Dragon Delves anthology, and more! Roll20 D&D 2024 Roadmap: Feature Reveals! D&D's New Solo Player...

That sounds a lot like negligence to me.

Because you could be a clone of any heritage. A clone of a human is still a human.

Yep. I think that's the important part. It simply isn't up to you to determine whether or not the copyright owner will be OK with it. It's up to the copyright holder--that's the right that they hold. It's less about stealing content and more about depriving them of their rights. In this case...

I mean yes, most SRDs are under an open license because an SRD is a component of an open license. That's like saying most engines are in vehicles. The very term SRD was created for the OGL. That's rather putting the cart before the horse. But I was talking about licenses in general, and how...

A lot of it is that companies are finally starting to try to pay their creators properly. Even so, the industry is nowhere close to that yet, as folks are resistant to paying creators the actual value of their work.

I'm unclear what you're disagreeing with? You believe that open licenses are the norm? I mean, they're not. Saying that you believe open licenses should be the norm does not contradict anything I said. If you look at the majority of licensed properties -- Star Wars, Middle Earth, Star Trek, the...

Open licenses are the exception not the norm. We’ve just been trained by our experience with D&D and the OGL to think it’s the norm.

The issue is that folks want an open license, and that's not what this is. It's a perfectly normal license.

And of course, while the occasional FLGS might be willing to do that, the likes of Barnes & Noble absolutely will not be chasing down ten thousand individual indie publishers to order their books.

Yep, a BIG new functionality update this month with monsters, companions, and campaign sources! https://www.levelup5e.com/news/level-up-gateway-july-dev-update

Presumably because they used Diamond for that service and their current Amazon bound stock is caught up in this situation. Just because they didn't need a distributor doesn't mean that they didn't use one. I imagine they prefer not to micromanage stock levels at Amazon if the distributor does it...

This seems unnecessarily vindictive.

Correct. Views and engagement are quantitative, not qualitative metrics. That's the very foundation of clickbait (and it's ragier cousin, ragebait).