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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Da Man" data-source="post: 44939" data-attributes="member: 1998">Well, I do want to make it clear that I was not belittling Necromancer Games in the comments above. Although I have never seen their balance sheet or thier income statement, I am sure that they are a serious player in the d20 arena. My comments were aimed at the suggestiion above that 'big companies always do the morally, ethically and legally correct thing.' That is NOT always the case. That was my point in that instance.With regard to Clark's last comments, perhaps Necromancer Games is acting out of some altruistic objective, but that would make it the exception rather then the rule in the business world. The casual observer, not having seen Clark's comments above, would see this as Necromancy Games taking advantage of a situation.I am no publisher, but understand the business process pretty well. This is a 'no brainer'. The work has been done. The promotion has been done. Demand for the exact product in electronic media is right in front of you. I do not see this as satisfying some injustice done to online contributers of material at all. It is the company that picks up some obscure, rarely-viewed product, hidden away from most observers and not receiving the attention it deserves that is more likely to be making the 'non-business' (or altruistic) decision.Necromancer Games seems to be trying to turn a buck on this. An easy one at that. For the most part, that is what capitalism is about. And, despite any inferences from the comments above, I am 150% behind this sort of activity. It makes the world go round.But, unless the contributers to the Creature Catalogue fully understood that _their work_ might be published and that _someone else_ might profit from it _prior_ to giving it up, then I believe that a very deep shadow is cast upon Necromancer Games and this site in general. There should be no grey area here. I don't know copywrite or fraud laws at all, but would certianly pursue it to the last yard, on principle alone, if I were a contributer who felt even slightly duped.</blockquote>

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