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<blockquote data-quote="grickherder" data-source="post: 4677311" data-attributes="member: 68043">Intellectual property doesn't refer to the actual work in question.&nbsp; Intellectual property refers to the exclusive rights for reproduction and/or distribution.&nbsp; The actual legally protected rights are the property.&nbsp; The term has just been thrown around and propagandized so much that people think the intellectual property is the actual work.&nbsp;&nbsp; It's the rights that can be bought, sold, rented, licensed, etc.,.&nbsp; Who owns the actual work?&nbsp; Not a relavant question.&nbsp; I own my player's handbook that I bought but WotC owns the right to reproduce it.&nbsp; I have property rights and WotC has protected commercial rights to the same work.As far as the original topic goes, WotC was totally in their rights to ask the website in question to shut down.&nbsp; It was a great site, (in terms of usefulness, design, etc.,), but an obvious violation of WotC's exclusive rights.&nbsp; WotC was in no way unreasonable for asking it to be taken down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grickherder, post: 4677311, member: 68043"] Intellectual property doesn't refer to the actual work in question. Intellectual property refers to the exclusive rights for reproduction and/or distribution. The actual legally protected rights are the property. The term has just been thrown around and propagandized so much that people think the intellectual property is the actual work. It's the rights that can be bought, sold, rented, licensed, etc.,. Who owns the actual work? Not a relavant question. I own my player's handbook that I bought but WotC owns the right to reproduce it. I have property rights and WotC has protected commercial rights to the same work. As far as the original topic goes, WotC was totally in their rights to ask the website in question to shut down. It was a great site, (in terms of usefulness, design, etc.,), but an obvious violation of WotC's exclusive rights. WotC was in no way unreasonable for asking it to be taken down. [/QUOTE]

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