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<blockquote data-quote="Scott_Rouse" data-source="post: 3682712" data-attributes="member: 51773">Fair enough, I know my post comes off looking pretty big brother like.&nbsp; I just took issue with the notion that we are being suddenly &quot;shady&quot; trying to get something for free especially from someone who is using an IP that they do not own.&nbsp; My point is only to call out the irony of that. I am not here to be an IP cop. There are way bigger infringing parties out there.&nbsp; And before everyone jumps down my throat about &quot;it's free, it's not like Kamikaze is selling his Planescape stuff&quot; look up &quot;use in commerce&quot; and copyright use. Because something free does not remove copyright restriction. More times than not WoTC and the D&amp;D brand have turned a blind eye to IP use by thrid parties so in terms of precedent in being the IP police we are far from the jack booted thugs we could be. For comparison, look to how Disney has protected it's IPs. I can't specifically answer questions on the Gleemax TOS because a) I have not seen them and b) I will leave that up to Randy to cover.It is my understanding that the spirit of the subject is that wizards wants to encourage and be able to recognize members of the community who do good work. This is not unlike the current submission guidelines from Dragon and Dungeons magazines <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070803a" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070803a</a>&nbsp; These provide the community an outlet to get published (and paid) for their work. Now i don't know plans (if there even are any) for paying for content off Gleemax but it is safe to say this is not our &quot;shady&quot; way of getting stuff for free because at the end of the day we don't really need it. We pay a lot of talented people to do work for us. This is more about building a community.You may get Randy to answer your concerns by actually posing these very valid questions on the Gleemax boards. He has been pretty good about addressing these types of concerns.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott_Rouse, post: 3682712, member: 51773"] Fair enough, I know my post comes off looking pretty big brother like. I just took issue with the notion that we are being suddenly "shady" trying to get something for free especially from someone who is using an IP that they do not own. My point is only to call out the irony of that. I am not here to be an IP cop. There are way bigger infringing parties out there. And before everyone jumps down my throat about "it's free, it's not like Kamikaze is selling his Planescape stuff" look up "use in commerce" and copyright use. Because something free does not remove copyright restriction. More times than not WoTC and the D&D brand have turned a blind eye to IP use by thrid parties so in terms of precedent in being the IP police we are far from the jack booted thugs we could be. For comparison, look to how Disney has protected it's IPs. I can't specifically answer questions on the Gleemax TOS because a) I have not seen them and b) I will leave that up to Randy to cover. It is my understanding that the spirit of the subject is that wizards wants to encourage and be able to recognize members of the community who do good work. This is not unlike the current submission guidelines from Dragon and Dungeons magazines [URL=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070803a]http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20070803a[/URL] These provide the community an outlet to get published (and paid) for their work. Now i don't know plans (if there even are any) for paying for content off Gleemax but it is safe to say this is not our "shady" way of getting stuff for free because at the end of the day we don't really need it. We pay a lot of talented people to do work for us. This is more about building a community. You may get Randy to answer your concerns by actually posing these very valid questions on the Gleemax boards. He has been pretty good about addressing these types of concerns. [/QUOTE]

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