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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9427621" data-attributes="member: 58172">If I understand correctly, the "stitch" was very poor quality. So the panic mode would be to shut videos down before someone made a high quality one.The panic seems to relate to discomfort with open gaming generally. It focused on a specific product, rather than growing the community that will make use of the product. I get it that the initial lauch of a product is sensitive tho. It is ethical to have "early access" for those who are paying and financially supporting the business that makes the products.Before the panic went too far, wisdom seems to have prevailed.Heh, regarding who the panickers were. The hostility against the OGL is reported to be from the top down. Probably the Pinkerton incident was too. It is easy for me to believe a top down decision caused the roughhandling of influencers as well. Perhaps Cocks personally initiated it, and in any case, the buck stops with him.Meanwhile, some WotC departments seemed to try mitigate the situation on behalf of the influencers and customers, whereas the lawyers were probably filling out legal forms without dealing with human contact. In any case, the lawyers did later retract their legal claims.The panic was brief during a weekend, and already seems to be over by now.For me personally, I would like clear guidance from WotC for what I should or shouldnt do when discussing a page in the core books. Because few people have seen the new Players Handbook, it is sometimes important to show what the rules look like, and on a page in their context. From what I understand showing upto 75% of a two-page spread is ok. (So as safety rule an image with 50% of a page is ok, to avoid approaching 75%?) Even for a casual discussion such as here in Enworld, it would be nice to have a rule of thumb for images. In the culture of D&D players, the important content is freely and publically available via SRDs, and the fan generated commentary and content are valuable for everyone, thus the boundary between "fair use" and unfair is less clear than it would be for other groups.</blockquote>

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