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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 5079220" data-attributes="member: 1">This isn't entirely true.  It is true that there are situations whereby a site owner can be liable for infringements, but the scenario you posit is not one of them. "Contributory Trademark Infringement" is most often used in reference to manufacturers and distributors of goods (a web forum does neither of these things).  There have been some cases involving ISPs with varying results; to my knowledge there have been none involving web forums. You may be thinking of Vicarious Infringement, which has involved web forums in the past; but in those cases there needs to be a partnership between the web forum and the infringer with intent to distribute actual content via that forum (i.e. actually download the digitial files from the forum itself). However, on a page such as your own <a href="http://www.wolflair.com/rightframe.php?context=army_builder&page=supplemental_downloads" target="_blank">Army Builder data files page </a>(where you yourself have linked to data files which infringe various companies' IP rights - including Babylon 5, Starship Troopers, Lord of the Rings and many more), there is a case.  You are certainly far more at risk than any web forum is. Of course, I don't know that you don't have an arrangement with the companies in question regarding that; you may well have for all I know (and you certainly don't owe me an explanation).</blockquote>