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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6421732" data-attributes="member: 177"><p><span style="color: darkorange">That is incorrect.</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">The Basic Rules, while free to download, are still covered by copyright. You cannot legally reproduce their content, any more than you can legally reproduce content from the print version of the PHB.</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">Let us be clear - how much you charge, or how much WotC charges, for content is irrelevant to copyright protection. They wrote and published it. They own it. Unless they specifically make a different license available standard copyright applies.</span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">This point is important for a simple reason - EN World does not support copyright infringement. As a general rule, we do not allow the site to be used to distribute blatantly infringing materials - so until WotC puts out some official policy, if folks start giving links to software alternates that are not obviously in the clear, we are likely to have to start stomping on the links. </span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange"></span></p><p><span style="color: darkorange">I'm sorry to be a wet blanket about this, but that's the way it is, folks. Legality matters, so please don't go that way. Thanks.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6421732, member: 177"] [color=darkorange]That is incorrect. The Basic Rules, while free to download, are still covered by copyright. You cannot legally reproduce their content, any more than you can legally reproduce content from the print version of the PHB. Let us be clear - how much you charge, or how much WotC charges, for content is irrelevant to copyright protection. They wrote and published it. They own it. Unless they specifically make a different license available standard copyright applies. This point is important for a simple reason - EN World does not support copyright infringement. As a general rule, we do not allow the site to be used to distribute blatantly infringing materials - so until WotC puts out some official policy, if folks start giving links to software alternates that are not obviously in the clear, we are likely to have to start stomping on the links. I'm sorry to be a wet blanket about this, but that's the way it is, folks. Legality matters, so please don't go that way. Thanks.[/color] [/QUOTE]
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