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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 3401959" data-attributes="member: 20914">Yahoo Group it / plus another thought - ramblingYa could start a Yahoo Group for ETools Support.  Something like PCGen's where people ask the how to and people help each other out.  I'm pretty sure if you announced it here you would get quite a few willing to go back and forth with helping each other with tips and all.I know your looking at it from the errata standpoint, but technically without the liscense they couldn't distribute even errata for it.---------------------Now for a little Lawful Evil twist in the CMP favor---------------------Now on a totally different note, when you look at IP stuff and all that.  Wouldnt there be an arguement to say that since while under the agreement WOTC gave the permission for CMP to CREATE (keyword here) datasets for their products during that time period.  Now I ain't no lawyer thats for sure, but wouldn't that now change the IP of the Datasets to CMP's ownership? as they did create the format and distrubition system for all of it.So wouldn't technically CMP still be in control of stuff THAT CMP CREATED during that time period?  Yeah they couldn't put in any errata since then but anything released before the license expired would be fair game for the CMP monkeys.I'm just going to use a car analogy so you all can follow my line of thinking.You buy a car.By virtue of buying the car you can do what you want with it, raise it lower it, change the front end so it looks completly different.  Or even just let it sit.Ford or Chevy then decide they no longer want to do business with you.They can't stop you from selling that car you already own.By this logic I think CMP is in a very interesting position of not really being unable to tread water.  Cause technically they still own the rights for that time period.  Just cause they can't create new stuff doesn't mean they can't sell their old datasets.  These datasets were created long before the rug was pulled out.  Thereby they are CMP datasets, cause there is no way WOTC gave them the data in that format.  Maybe LoneJedi can answer that part on how they got data.  So unless the data came over in that format, then the IP is now CMP's not WOTC.  Now this is just a simple layman's take on it.  But if I was on a jury I think I would be leaning on the CMP side if argued like this.YetiThey can't take back the</blockquote>

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