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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8884506" data-attributes="member: 82106">You are sadly mistaken here... They can drag you into court every week, maybe several times a week, for months at a time, force you attend conferences and mandated arbitration hearings, demand endless discovery, try to subpeona everyone under the Sun you work with, and then drag the proceedings out for months and years, all while a cloud of doubt hangs over your business. They can make motions for summary judgement, dismissal, ask for interim restraining orders stopping you from doing business, etc. etc. etc. This all gets very expensive and eats away any value your business has. It is TYPICAL for these sorts of cases to take years to reach resolution, years of paying retainers, fees, and hourly rate charges for lawyers. These are also, often, FEDERAL cases, because copyright is Federal law, which increases the complexity and potentially opens things up to nasty strategies like suing you in New York when you are based in L.A. Care to fly to NYC every other week? Yeah, I don't think so... (I mean, sure you can fight that, YET ANOTHER legal battle!).Don't hold your breath. WotC can put aside $2 million, which is not a lot of money for a big company and beat you to death with it. Once you've been pounded into dust, the rest of the industry is VERY unlikely to go down the same road, they will cave. They won't support you in the first place either, because then they've alienated WotC themselves, and to no advantage. At best it is risky AND expensive for them. I guarantee you are going to fork out more money than a house in Seattle costs, just to START mounting a defense. I mean, there MAY be a very small select number of RPG community people who are wealthy enough to do that, but not many. Most likely you are 90% on your own.</blockquote>

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