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This is because game mechanics CAN NOT be protected by copyright. Pateneted maybe, but copyright no.

From Copyright Basics on the US gov site for Copyright: Copyrightable works include the following categories: 1 literary works 2 musical works, including any accompanying words 3 dramatic works, including any accompanying music 4 pantomimes and choreographic works 5 pictorial, graphic, and...

Well if they were getting a licensing fee from the companies they allowed to use the IP, then they are still getting something from it. If someone doesn't like D&DI and doesn't choose to use it they loss a peice of that customers money. But if that customer buys a licensed product and uses it...

No apology needed but thanks none the less. I agree with you here completly. It is not their job at all. I am just saying that looking at it in a strictly business point of view. I think that WotC could look at this in a different light but aren't. They could be like other companies and...

Maybe so. But nothing in life happens until you take action. Even if the action is just making your voice heard. No matter what the medium. Only by exciting open discussion can things in the end, truely be resolved or changed. Will it change anything? Who knows. But I do know I am a 29...

But this is a very public matter. It affects the public that wants to use alternate game aids and are being denied the option. Is this not a discussion about IP infringment? Im just stating how I see other companies, namely the one acting upon their said IP being infringed, doing the same thing...

My tone of argument? What argument? Last I checked I am not arguing anything. Unless the word opinion = argument to you? As far as my feeling on what WotC might have or not have gotten from HF, I don't really care in the end, because imitation is the highest form of flattery. But I only speak...

As far as the being professional, I feel that we have been very professional in our dealings with WotC. And I know that we will continue to be. Whether they choose the same path, I can not speak for. I am not of the sue over everything mentality. I am of the "hey we are all on the same team...

I think that you misunder stand where I am coming from here. This site does get money for the right to have special member perks, even a special Avatar option. So when it comes to the discussion of what is the difference between how Ema made money, selling a premium service and used WotC IP on...

I love playing D&D and love the work I do that revolves around it. I hate that it is a good possibility this work might be all for not. I hate knowing that in the end it is the consumer that will suffer by not having options. So goes the drama of the current state of roleplaying in D&D.

Exactally healthy competition is a good thing for business. It makes the competitors have to keep progressing to the benefit of the consumer.So what is WotC's problem? It seems that they are afraid of that competition (IMO). And that is all it is, an opinion. Or is this Competition ala...

Ok what about this neat Avatar I have. Last I checked that wasn't created by ENWorld but is a part of someone elses IP. Not that I am saying that I feel that is any violation but wouldn't this be an example of a Fan Site using something without permission? Unless of course they do have the right...

That is why I refuse to go into any more detail about the subject of the aledged violation, but it is a good question none the less. If it were you and it was your work, what would you do? How would you feel? It is us the fans that should be driving this machine in a sense. We are the ones...

What does your quote have anything to do with me? I didn't make that post that you quoted.

Well it sure seems to me that isn't the first time it has happened. As for seeking leagl advice from this forum, that isn't what I asked for. I asked for an opinion. I know for a fact that their are IP guys on this forum. But I don't expect anyone but my lawyer to act as it. But I do...

Let's just say that the current Character Builder form WotC, at the time of GenCon this past year, didn't have certain features in it. As of now they do. Features that are not present in ANY of the other 3.5 or 4E character gens out right now. Funny thing is that those features didn't appear...

To add to this: After now reading not only the entrie thread on the Wizards boards, and posting my opinion there, Wizards Community - View Single Post - emass-web.com - Cease and Desist?, and now all the posts in this thread, I have to say that this is a sad affair to say the least. Since...

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