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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5813056" data-attributes="member: 42582">I am not a practising lawyer, but I am an academic lawyer. And although my field is constitutional theory rather than IP and contract law, I will still confidently answer this &quot;yes&quot;. The civil wrong is in using another's IP, not in profitting from it or causing them to suffer a loss by your use of it. The money issue would be relevant to the measure of any remedies awarded, however.In US the relevant notion is &quot;fair use&quot;. I'm not sure that that would get you as far as you want to go, however.Yes - the licence under which you permit use or reproduction of your SRD could prohibit those who take up the licence from selling their licensed products.EDIT: Some of these legal issues have recently been discussed on the &quot;Why Pathfinder is successful&quot; thread on Genreal. [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION], in particular, has some sensible stuff to say about mechanics, fiction and IP (S'mon is an academic IP and contract lawyer).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5813056, member: 42582"] I am not a practising lawyer, but I am an academic lawyer. And although my field is constitutional theory rather than IP and contract law, I will still confidently answer this "yes". The civil wrong is in using another's IP, not in profitting from it or causing them to suffer a loss by your use of it. The money issue would be relevant to the measure of any remedies awarded, however. In US the relevant notion is "fair use". I'm not sure that that would get you as far as you want to go, however. Yes - the licence under which you permit use or reproduction of your SRD could prohibit those who take up the licence from selling their licensed products. EDIT: Some of these legal issues have recently been discussed on the "Why Pathfinder is successful" thread on Genreal. [MENTION=463]S'mon[/MENTION], in particular, has some sensible stuff to say about mechanics, fiction and IP (S'mon is an academic IP and contract lawyer). [/QUOTE]

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