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Message: <blockquote data-quote="herald" data-source="post: 1303383" data-attributes="member: 1112">Actually it comes down to this. WOTC wants to protect it's IP in any form. In order to use that IP, CMP has entered into an agreement to do so. I can't say for certain what those details are, but you can be sure that that CMP has to abide by what WOTC thinks is a legitamate and agreed use of it's IP.WOTC has on more than one occation sent cease and desist orders to people it has felt have violated it's IP rights via distribution. And they have done so against people on Kazaa and other internet sources as well.In the end, if you want to create something and it has WOTC IP (other than OGC) in it, you should contact WOTC and ask them if you can distribute it. Can there be anything more simple than that? You may own the book, but the work in the book belongs to someone. Publishers pay the rights to be able to produce books. (Public Domain excluded) You don't have the right to exceed the publisher's right just because you can reproduce it in another format. So for all of those people who download PDFs of material for free off the internet that otherwise would not be, you can't claim it to be borrowing because you didn't ask the true source of the material.</blockquote>