Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
E-Tools: Anyone Sharing Custom Files?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Nylanfs" data-source="post: 1303857" data-attributes="member: 10612"><p>Note: I was not privy to all the conversations but this is how I understand it to have happened.</p><p></p><p>Actually the original PCGen datasets for the splatbooks, Oriental Adventers, Forgotten Realms etc. were created under the <em>impression</em> that it would be okay under the Fair Use guidelines. Several attempts were made to contact WotC to verify but contact could never be made until GenCon '02. At that time Anthony Valterra said that "No we don't agree. Please remove the datasets in violation." To which Bryan said "Ok, is there anyway we can continue to distribute them." AV said "Well first become OGL compliant and then we can talk about it." Which was accomplished in Umm 42days? I think that's right. after that negotiations were opened with WotC to get the datasets back, after that it was a whirlwind of negiatiations which ended up with CMP being created, them getting the "priviledge" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> of fixing eTools and they purchased the rights to distribute datasets for ALL of WotC IP for both eTools and PCGen.</p><p></p><p>The main point is that while it may or maynot have been following the Fair Use guidelines, unless you have the money and time to go to court the injured party always wins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nylanfs, post: 1303857, member: 10612"] Note: I was not privy to all the conversations but this is how I understand it to have happened. Actually the original PCGen datasets for the splatbooks, Oriental Adventers, Forgotten Realms etc. were created under the [I]impression[/I] that it would be okay under the Fair Use guidelines. Several attempts were made to contact WotC to verify but contact could never be made until GenCon '02. At that time Anthony Valterra said that "No we don't agree. Please remove the datasets in violation." To which Bryan said "Ok, is there anyway we can continue to distribute them." AV said "Well first become OGL compliant and then we can talk about it." Which was accomplished in Umm 42days? I think that's right. after that negotiations were opened with WotC to get the datasets back, after that it was a whirlwind of negiatiations which ended up with CMP being created, them getting the "priviledge" :) of fixing eTools and they purchased the rights to distribute datasets for ALL of WotC IP for both eTools and PCGen. The main point is that while it may or maynot have been following the Fair Use guidelines, unless you have the money and time to go to court the injured party always wins. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Geek Talk & Media
E-Tools: Anyone Sharing Custom Files?
Top
