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<blockquote data-quote="theodudek" data-source="post: 4882771" data-attributes="member: 84017">@umbran I'm aware that Wizards is not planning to crack down on existing sites, but what I would like to see is a general shift in policy for WotC in favor of more &quot;open gaming&quot; content. While I realize that they are a business and need to make money, I am always alarmed by attempts to control information usage &amp; permissions in this way, when it is simply a matter of logos and images which should be covered by fair-use, not a matter of uploading entire bootleg PDFs of RPG supplements. Companies must expect logos and to a certain extent images to be reused and repurposed... I am reminded of the &quot;Consumer Whore&quot; case when artist Kieron Dwyer was sued by Starbucks in 2000 (<a href="http://www.cbldf.org/pr/001130-starbucks.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.cbldf.org/pr/001130-starbucks.shtml</a>).I am not fully aware yet of the benefits WotC plans to confer to their &quot;official fan sites,&quot; but it seems like a lot to ask for the use of some content which may arguably be fair use anyway @_@</blockquote>

[QUOTE="theodudek, post: 4882771, member: 84017"] @umbran I'm aware that Wizards is not planning to crack down on existing sites, but what I would like to see is a general shift in policy for WotC in favor of more "open gaming" content. While I realize that they are a business and need to make money, I am always alarmed by attempts to control information usage & permissions in this way, when it is simply a matter of logos and images which should be covered by fair-use, not a matter of uploading entire bootleg PDFs of RPG supplements. Companies must expect logos and to a certain extent images to be reused and repurposed... I am reminded of the "Consumer Whore" case when artist Kieron Dwyer was sued by Starbucks in 2000 ([url]http://www.cbldf.org/pr/001130-starbucks.shtml[/url]). I am not fully aware yet of the benefits WotC plans to confer to their "official fan sites," but it seems like a lot to ask for the use of some content which may arguably be fair use anyway @_@ [/QUOTE]

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