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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 4678103" data-attributes="member: 524">In the world of copyright law it does not matter if it is a criminal or a civil suit, it must be upheld as a local person in the country would be protected/sued if the country has signed onto the Berne Convention.Thus if you are in Sweden with a great website with all the Ritual texts on it because you are printing out Ritual cards and the owner of the Ritual text is in the US then if you refused to comply with a C&D letter the US can then make a petition to the Swedish law courts as if they were Swedish Copyright Holders.In quick easy terms, you are treated as a citizen of that nation with regards to copyright and that country must uphold your copyright just as they would for one of their own.As to the difference between civil and criminal copyright law. A criminal offence is generally a misrepresentation of the imprint of the material you originally copyrighted. For example, putting the WoTC logo on a record sheet of your own making and selling your efforts. This indirectly implies that you are a WoTC representative or that your work has somehow been approved by them. And technically saying T$R infringes their copyright because you are mutilating/altering the seal/imprint of a company. Lucky for us it isn't their original logo we are doing it to <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=";)" />This kind of case came up with Judges Guild in TSR days if I remember correctly. They were using the TSR logo which implied sanctioned material but it wasn't so.</blockquote>

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