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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9645217" data-attributes="member: 42582">This is not quite technically accurate.WotC can decline to offer new licences at any time. What it can't do is revoke any licences that have already been created - the way that licences are created is set out <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">in the terms of the licence itself</a>:By exercising the Licensed Rights (defined below), You accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License ("Public License").And each of these licences is irrevocable: section 2(A)(1).In addition, when a licence comes into being between WotC and an exerciser of the "Licensed Rights", the following provision (section 2(a)(5)(A)) becomes relevant:Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.So each person who receives licensed content from a licensee is also deemed to receive an offer from WotC; and then, by exercising the "Licensed Rights", they become a licensee who is bound by the terms of the licence. This is the key provision, as it means that even if WotC ceases to directly offer licences, offers can be made on its behalf simply by having a prior licensee disseminate licensed content.One academic discussion of this from a legal perspective is Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, 'The New Servitudes' (2008) 96(3) Georgetown Law Journal 885.</blockquote>

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