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<blockquote data-quote="corydodt" data-source="post: 3695468" data-attributes="member: 51073">Does anyone have an opinion, legal or otherwise, on whether or not it would be legal to collect descriptions and art, community-contributed, for SRD monsters?What I'm imagining is a Wiki page, with all SRD monsters organized in some fashion and probably full-text searchable.&nbsp; Users of this Wiki would be allowed to edit the description of the creature.&nbsp; As you have probably noticed, many SRD monsters completely lack a description, and almost none have any decent descriptions.&nbsp; The community would be able to:- Add descriptions, from its own imagination.&nbsp; These would include physical appearance, and might reference community, habitat, and game-niche for the creature.&nbsp; Users would be specifically prohibited from plagiarizing any of this material from anyone else's PI and, to the extent possible, technological and sociological measures would be taken to ensure infringing material is removed immediately.&nbsp; And on the other hand, popularity and other benefits would accrue to the best original authors contributing to the wiki.&nbsp; All material contributed would be considered OGC or CC-attribution-sharealike.- Add art, from its own creative wells.&nbsp; This would naturally be art depicting the creature in question, perhaps in context.&nbsp; Similar to the descriptions, this work would be OGC or CC-attribution-sharealike once uploaded.&nbsp; This is harder to do well; we want to establish a consistent community style, and artists who know how to do that usually expect to be paid to do it.&nbsp; Nevertheless, there's fertile ground here, if we can just figure out to harness it.&nbsp; As an alternative, sites like dunjinni.com (the forums) could be harnessed to contribute some of this material, as that stuff is already freely distributable by the magic of click-through licenses.If such a site were in place, should I expect to find WotC's lawyers knocking on my door?&nbsp; Or would it be legal?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="corydodt, post: 3695468, member: 51073"] Does anyone have an opinion, legal or otherwise, on whether or not it would be legal to collect descriptions and art, community-contributed, for SRD monsters? What I'm imagining is a Wiki page, with all SRD monsters organized in some fashion and probably full-text searchable. Users of this Wiki would be allowed to edit the description of the creature. As you have probably noticed, many SRD monsters completely lack a description, and almost none have any decent descriptions. The community would be able to: - Add descriptions, from its own imagination. These would include physical appearance, and might reference community, habitat, and game-niche for the creature. Users would be specifically prohibited from plagiarizing any of this material from anyone else's PI and, to the extent possible, technological and sociological measures would be taken to ensure infringing material is removed immediately. And on the other hand, popularity and other benefits would accrue to the best original authors contributing to the wiki. All material contributed would be considered OGC or CC-attribution-sharealike. - Add art, from its own creative wells. This would naturally be art depicting the creature in question, perhaps in context. Similar to the descriptions, this work would be OGC or CC-attribution-sharealike once uploaded. This is harder to do well; we want to establish a consistent community style, and artists who know how to do that usually expect to be paid to do it. Nevertheless, there's fertile ground here, if we can just figure out to harness it. As an alternative, sites like dunjinni.com (the forums) could be harnessed to contribute some of this material, as that stuff is already freely distributable by the magic of click-through licenses. If such a site were in place, should I expect to find WotC's lawyers knocking on my door? Or would it be legal? [/QUOTE]

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