BardMorgan
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Brown Jenkin said:
You are correct, and what they are choosing to do with it right now is allowing it to be freely distributed on the Internet. And once the cat is out of the bag...
PCGen for at least a very long time has made sure that they have permission for all thier material. With respect to the non-SRD WotC material they had unofficial permission from Ryan Dancey and continued after that to try to get official permission. It was only at GenCon that they finally had official talks and are now working to meet all the requirements that were laid out.
Actually, they never had explicit permission from WotC... WotC simply let it stand without challenge. WotC simply decided to make a stand...
I'm not sure what the law is on IP that's being encouraged in a particular format, but since there's no legal requirement to defend copyright, that may be moot. As far as I know, a copyright holder can control exactly who and how has permission to use the materials...
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