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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vvincent" data-source="post: 5900754" data-attributes="member: 21680">Hey Fryrock,I'm the one who suggested that Casey start a legal defense fund. I'll admit that I intended the post to be tongue-in-cheek, which is how I also interpreted the Kickstarter comment. Kickstarter is intended for creative projects - not legal defense - and they require your project to be submitted for approval. So I wouldn't realistically expect anything like Kickstarter if Casey did, in fact, need some assistance in covering any legal bills. Now a Bandit Kingdoms telethon would be another story. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />With respect to the rights on Living Greyhawk adventures, all adventures published in the first two years of the campaign (2000-2002) were purchased by WotC. Beginning in Year 3 - all regional and metaregional adventures were volunteer-created and not sold - only licensed - to WotC. WotC had distribution rights for two years, after which all rights reverted back to the author. The author could then (re)sell the adventure, provided that any IP or copyrighted material was removed. Some authors, like Ron Lundeen, have done just that. (shameless plug for Ron's publishing company, <a href="http://www.runamokgames.com/" target="_blank">Run Amok Games</a>)The BK book isn't a reproduction or re-release of those adventures - its a summary of the plot and events, which also includes commentary and analysis. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't absolutely know for certain if those things aren't prohibited by IP or copyright law. But from my layman's understanding, I don't have to own the rights to a work of art if I want to, for example, write a book that comments on or analyzes said work - as long as I'm not reproducing the work. The best example that comes to mind is the Unauthorized Harry Potter book that organized all of the clues and events from the 7 novels and related material. Again, I could be mistaken - and please correct any misapprehension on my part. In any case, Casey knew it was a sausage grinder he was sticking his hand into, and he seems to have his response well in hand, so - beyond the fact that he's a friends and former colleague, I'm not really that worried about him.Vernon L. Vincentformer Verbobonc Triad for Living Greyhawk</blockquote>

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