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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3982618" data-attributes="member: 15538">On the other hand, offering a settlement and destroying "infringing product" in the manner of disabling a download link would be simple. WotC obviously would not spend thousands pursuing an infringer who instantly folds. WotC can only be victorious in this scenario ultimately by doggedly pursuing an infringer into court and winning a judgment. The result would send a message to other publishers, but would be hugely costly to WotC. It's kind of an open secret, I think, that such a case is very likely to just lose. Furthermore, the sued parties are unlikely to be able to make any major financial restitution.If the "nominal" restrictions make your product possible. The new license emphasizes a "heavy reliance" on the 4e book. Iron Heroes would be a nonstarter. M&M would be a non-starter. At least as I am reading it; perhaps original systems as in M&M would be okay and alternative PHB's like Arcana Evolved would not, I can't be sure, obviously.These chicken games were played out in the 1980s, and they never went to court. Palladium did bomb The Primal Order (by WotC) out of orbit with legal threats, however. TSR went to the brink with the Judge's Guild before the issue was finessed. So I guess it's an open question.But I know you can print a strategy guide to any video game you like. Surely you can print a strategy guide to D&D, as well. Just as a for instance.As near as I can tell, the only thing you have to fear are companies hot enough to pursue a supposed infringement case to the bitter end, against the advice of most lawyers.</blockquote>

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