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Every culture has its language, traditions, terms of art, and conventions. In the law, and especially in contracts, the general rule is that the singular means plural, he means he/she/they/it and person means individual, partnership, corporation, trust, or other entity. Typically, this is...

The problem is, even for lawyers, to compare the words, punctuation and spacing in a document of legal text takes a ridiculous amount of time and is beyond tedious. When we do so with offering circulars and other "liability documents" for public companies, we use a method called "slugging lines"...

No, that's wrong. If you watch the Battlezoo video on Youtube, they explained why the text at the hyperlinks was left out. The document was presented to each of the original recipients under a NDA. What had happened was that because the text at the hyperlink could not be compared as between the...

Sure. The real world doesn't work that way though. You pony up and roll the dice. Legal uncertainty can be (and usually is) overblown. Still, it's just one of the many uncertainties that goes into the hopper when embarking on any new business venture. To be clear: legal uncertainty is never...

Paizo did it twice: with Abomination Vaults 5e as well as with Kingmaker 5e. The main reason they did it is because there are a lot of new gamers in the hobby who have no experience with Paizo, its products, or the production values of its products. They wanted to show those potential new...

A5e? Yes, of course. Difference is, it takes a large print run and distribution deals to get it on FLGS shelves and otherwise in the marketplace - supported by Adv Paths and all the bells, whistles and accessories. It's quite an undertaking to do that. It's something you work up to. It's really...

Correct. A few things flow from this: The so-called OGL 1.1 likely varied in accordance with to whom it was presented. It was specifically tailored for the audience it was delivered to. As it went out under NDA, the recipients weren't supposed to be able to figure out which version they got --...

It can take a while, but the worm can turn; sharply over what can seem in retrospect a relatively small slice in time. In August of 2007, we heard: "The game is the same; the game is the same". That was the hype video release for 4e. Dungeon and Dragon Magazine weren't being cancelled, they...

I pay close to $500 CDN for access on DDB for a number of products over the course of nine months, and I'm acting unethically? I don't agree. It is doubtful that WotC could even get an injunction if it tried to do so to prevent this, I might add. They don't meet the second branch of the test...

So-called software wrapper agreements are the subject matter of legislation in many jurisdictions (especially in the USA). For consumers, to purchase the software which indicates on the box (or the webpage) that it is subject to a license agreement -- you are essentially caught by a contract you...

Let me address your comments, because they seem high on hyperbole -- and low on rationality. Firstly, this is not about Foundry VTT -- it is about a patreon software shim created by "Mr. Primate", and another less capable free software shim by VTTA. Secondly, DDB products are something that...

It means that right now, WotC sees that it makes more -- far more -- per sale on DDB than it would as a royalty on a sale through Roll20 or FG. In other words, it is in their financial interest to do nothing and look the other way.

It doesn't hold up for basic contract formation reasons, either. As for negative option contract formation, that is outright unlawful in many jurisdictions. Nice try. The arrogance is unwise though and fairly drips from the page if what you are quoting is a final draft.

Well, that's fair - though the answer doesn't really change. I am typing on a tablet, zoomed in, so I did not even see it was you posting, else I would not have replied in that manner. Still, the point remains - most of these issues will never have an answer tested in court. It is worthwhile...

This is borrowing trouble now. Most IP discussions in the Internet devolve to this sort of hair splitting and minutiae. Not every issue leads to litigation. Most lead to...nothing. Your preference for doctrinal and contractual clarity is unrealistic. If nobody cares enough to sue? Nobody...

For Abomination Vaults (5e version) and Kingmaker (5e) I am quite confident they used SRD 5.1. WotC likely does not want its customers buying Paizo authored adv products. Their production values are higher than WotC's (at a minimum, at least as high - it is what Paizo does best). WotC would...

FoundryVTt is an explicit licensee in that it sells Paizo Adv Paths to customers. (technically, Paizo sells the codes which can be redeemed on Foundry's server.) The PF2 system is community authored. It is also better code than 5e's - the Dev team working on PF2 has more people working on it...

To be clear, Foundry VTT does not scrape DDB for anything. There is a module, not made or written by Foundry VTT but by a patreon (Mr. Primate) and another, much more limited patreon ( VTTA, which is free), that allows someone who has a DDB account to access their own material on DDB that they...

There are a broad swath of topics that would fall under "domestic politics" in the USA, but which they declare are "human rights" and so "not politics". (To be clear, I happen to agree with that view. I have a trans kid and so does my brother.) By the same token, the right to not get murdered...

Well, let's not kid ourselves here. The entire Western world was united in its condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine. It certainly was not an issue of much division re: domestic politics in any English language speaking nation on Earth -- nor in any democracy on this planet, either. And...