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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JollyBGood" data-source="post: 1393452" data-attributes="member: 1408">It's quite possible Dungeon (as was Dragon) *IS* the problematic quagmire you fear it to be -- since so many different contracts and people are involved. Is it realistic to think you could track down every artist, every writer, review every release form and contract...?  Not to mention a changing legal landscape that doesn't seem to have firmly decided how such compilations should be handled. I think not.It could be there's no simple solution and a Dungeon CD simply isn't feasible given the amount of manhours and risk involved.Yes that sucks but just because contacting every freelancer presents an enormous challenge doesn't remove the neccesity to do so. A writer/artist doesn't forfeit his rights simply because it's inconvienent.For example, as a publisher I wouldn't touch such a CD compilation of SHADIS with a ten foot pole. I know for a fact half the material we published was based on  a virtual handshake basis and no paper work exists regarding rights and ownership. With the exception of my own material that ran in Shadis I would have to say the legal status of the magazine's content is in limbo.So no matter how great the demand there might be for a Shadis compilation (not that there's any demand out there -- I'm just using it as an example) it just wouldn't be feasible to do one. Simply putting out a SHADIS CD compilation and hoping nobody complained would be wreckless.</blockquote>

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