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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyDickensC" data-source="post: 4353079" data-attributes="member: 53954">I appreciate your thoughtfulness and concern about the legal well being of the project.  I interpret that as exemplary of your high level of support for these efforts contained in this and similar threads.  However, no matter the intention of any participant, as long as the final product (assuming it is actually published publicly - if it is were not then all efforts fall under fair use doctrine - contains no original material then the product is not an unauthorized derivative work.  So what is "original material"?  Original material is text (or art or other expression) appearing in published sources.  One must also remember: if the product uses OGL material then the product must be released under the OGL as stipulated in the OGL. Bottom line: if no material, which is to say text from 4E sources, appears in any surrogate product there is no liability for copyright violation.  It is text and only text (and art and other expression) that can be claimed as owned by WOTC.  The algorithms defined in the text is not owned by WOTC and is reproducable.[d]hr[/d]As proof, I present the following text from the US Copyright website: Source: <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html" target="_blank">http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html</a>Emphasis is mine.  I hope this clears the matter finally.  Back to work fellas. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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