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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dirtypool" data-source="post: 8484522" data-attributes="member: 7033897">Yeah, an hour of work isn't how product reviews work in the industry, and you know that.Hence my statement that they would either license the material (put you under a contract which would require them to pay lawyers) or pay the author.   This was in reference to your statement that there would be no additional cost to WOTC, I presented two possible costs, either a legal fee or a direct payment.  I didn't even get into the simple stuff like promotional costs.The DM's Guild is a usage of the OGL which is a fair use license that excludes D&D specific content.  There is zero quality control on the DM's Guild and while it is a great tool to democratize access to content, it is not built for high quality revision to existing materials Were you revising existing D&D Material for re-release they would enter into a separate license with you.  You would be treated like a 3PP and not at all like an independent entity selling their homebrew content in the established homebrew marketplace.It would absolutely be unreasonable to license out the logos that they use as trade dress, because it would create brand confusion over which entity is the creator and publisher of official content.  That's the whole point of trademarks.  It's a strange thing to suggest in the article about WOTC protecting their trademark that what they really should do is weaken it instead.</blockquote>