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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4658344" data-attributes="member: 10095">Okay, so a thread on another site from June, 2008 in which a guy claims to have a case against WotC for 'stealing his font,' with no indication of whether the case was successfully executed, nor whether the judge agreed there was a violation. I see some guy making a claim, saying his lawyer agrees he has a case, and he plans on filing it. A lawyer agreeing he has a case doesn't prove anything about whether WotC did, in fact, use his IP without permission. Lawyers have been known to agree that a client has a case, even when the court has thrown them out, since they get paid for taking on the case (not saying the lawyer doesn't honestly agree with the client in all cases).I remember that. The dice looked exactly the same, except for color. Anyone got any links on how that went? I remember a few years back, a game was accused of stealing art assets directly from Half-Life 2 and later it was discovered that both Valve and the &quot;thief&quot; company bought their textures from a 3rd-party company and the accusations were just knee-jerk internet reactions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 4658344, member: 10095"] [B] Okay, so a thread on another site from June, 2008 in which a guy claims to have a case against WotC for 'stealing his font,' with no indication of whether the case was successfully executed, nor whether the judge agreed there was a violation. I see some guy making a claim, saying his lawyer agrees he has a case, and he plans on filing it. A lawyer agreeing he has a case doesn't prove anything about whether WotC did, in fact, use his IP without permission. Lawyers have been known to agree that a client has a case, even when the court has thrown them out, since they get paid for taking on the case (not saying the lawyer doesn't honestly agree with the client in all cases). I remember that. The dice looked exactly the same, except for color. Anyone got any links on how that went? I remember a few years back, a game was accused of stealing art assets directly from Half-Life 2 and later it was discovered that both Valve and the "thief" company bought their textures from a 3rd-party company and the accusations were just knee-jerk internet reactions.[/b] [/QUOTE]

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