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<blockquote data-quote="jimmifett" data-source="post: 5587636" data-attributes="member: 55006">It doesn't matter if others can see, it's if anyone can see and the fact it's being delivered from wotc. Just becuase it's common practice doesn't mean it isn't a gordian's knot of legal considerations. Even youtube can be served with takedown notices for content they serve but did not create. Thats why wotc has dungeons filled with Illithid lawyers just to discuss these things. Any product has to go through sales and marketing dire weasels, then the illithid lawyers, and who knows how many other groups. Developers are among the last in line to have any say on something customer facing, if they get any say at all other than how something is implemented.&nbsp;Lets say wotc opens up CB to 3pp for datasets, those 3pp companies are going to have licensing deals, and as such, i'd want working to prevent users from just ripping off my content. perhaps it's a subscription type thing. Pay $1, get all content in the CB from x company. Now I have a monetary incentive, and where there is money, there is lawyers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jimmifett, post: 5587636, member: 55006"] It doesn't matter if others can see, it's if [I]anyone[/I] can see and the fact it's being delivered from wotc. Just becuase it's common practice doesn't mean it isn't a gordian's knot of legal considerations. Even youtube can be served with takedown notices for content they serve but did not create. Thats why wotc has dungeons filled with Illithid lawyers just to discuss these things. Any product has to go through sales and marketing dire weasels, then the illithid lawyers, and who knows how many other groups. Developers are among the last in line to have any say on something customer facing, if they get any say at all other than how something is implemented. Lets say wotc opens up CB to 3pp for datasets, those 3pp companies are going to have licensing deals, and as such, i'd want working to prevent users from just ripping off my content. perhaps it's a subscription type thing. Pay $1, get all content in the CB from x company. Now I have a monetary incentive, and where there is money, there is lawyers. [/QUOTE]

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