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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 532456" data-attributes="member: 1">I'm with James here - it's not his job.&nbsp; Removing the product in this case may have been the right thing to do, but it is the publisher's responsibility, not the store's.&nbsp; I think that it's cool that James chose to do the right thing anyway.That said... it's also not our job to police other publishers.&nbsp; Sure, letting someone know that they've made a mistake if you should spot it is cool, but it's their responsibility, and their risk, when they publish a book under the D20 STL and/or the OGL.&nbsp; The only people who should really be getting upset by it are WotC themselves, because it is their IP, not ours.&nbsp; So, it's between the publisher and WotC.&nbsp; RPGNow, or all of us here, have no.. what's the legal term? &quot;Standing&quot;?... we have no standing in the issue.&nbsp; So the best thing to do is to point out such mistakes to the publisher in question in a&nbsp; friendly manner (probably best done privately, in fact); by doing that you've covered any moral obligation you may have.&nbsp; Plus, it's nice to do, because this industry is so small that we should all be helping each other, not trying to cause trouble for (or &quot;nark&quot; on) each other.I think that the only time anyone else (i.e. anyone but WotC's legal team, or any other publisher whose IP has been used illegitimately) should really be interfering is if such a time comes when the problem was causing damage to the industry.&nbsp; As it is, I don't see this PDF doing any particular damage to anyone else. And if the publisher gets a few sales where the rest of us wouldn't due to doing things we know he shouldn't, again, who cares?&nbsp; Not our business, not our problem.&nbsp; Not unless we can see clear signs that it is harming us in some way.We ain't the D20 police, folks!&nbsp; At least, I don't recall receiving a pay cheque from WotC.&nbsp; If they want to employ any of us in that manner, then maybe there's room to talk. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 532456, member: 1"] I'm with James here - it's not his job. Removing the product in this case may have been the right thing to do, but it is the publisher's responsibility, not the store's. I think that it's cool that James chose to do the right thing anyway. That said... it's also not [i]our[/i] job to police other publishers. Sure, letting someone know that they've made a mistake if you should spot it is cool, but it's their responsibility, and their risk, when they publish a book under the D20 STL and/or the OGL. The only people who should really be getting upset by it are WotC themselves, because it is [i]their[/i] IP, not ours. So, it's between the publisher and WotC. RPGNow, or all of us here, have no.. what's the legal term? "Standing"?... we have no standing in the issue. So the best thing to do is to point out such mistakes to the publisher in question in a friendly manner (probably best done privately, in fact); by doing that you've covered any moral obligation you may have. Plus, it's nice to do, because this industry is so small that we should all be helping each other, not trying to cause trouble for (or "nark" on) each other. I think that the only time anyone else (i.e. anyone but WotC's legal team, or any other publisher whose IP has been used illegitimately) should really be interfering is if such a time comes when the problem was causing damage to the industry. As it is, I don't see this PDF doing any particular damage to anyone else. And if the publisher gets a few sales where the rest of us wouldn't due to doing things we know he shouldn't, again, who cares? Not our business, not our problem. Not unless we can see clear signs that it is harming [i]us[/i] in some way. We ain't the D20 police, folks! At least, I don't recall receiving a pay cheque from WotC. If they want to employ any of us in that manner, then maybe there's room to talk. ;) [/QUOTE]

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