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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 1679835" data-attributes="member: 10913">Legal right - you are probably right. Moral right - I am sure you think you are right, and I am sure "they" don't think you are right, and there is really no objective way to decide the matter. So why not just back up from the moral high ground, shall we?IIRC, you need protect only Trademarks, not Copyrights. Copyrights are yours regardless of how little or capriciously you enforce them. So disney's problems are not pertinent to the issue.Frankly, I doubt if anyone but a copyright-lawyer understands copyright law. From the little I gathered, it is a thorny issue. Regardless, I reckon that most copyright infringement does not follow from not understanding copyright law, but rather from not caring about it. You do what you because you feel you should have a right to do so, regardless of the legal situation. I certainly do believe that making and sharing a table summarizing and indexing the feats is fair use, if not even free speech. I don't know if that's what it is, but I do know I feel it should be. (Of course, there is a fine line here - if you put in too much information, then it does infringe... but as long as it is done in good faith, I don't think it will get out of hand.)Interesting. I bought these books mianly because they were for me better than the PDFs et al (you do know they contain a lot more then dry rules, right?), but also because I wanted to support their publisher. Not for any legal reason. Not purchasing a product from the publisher because you can get a product from another at cheaper prices that puts out all the original's goods... well, to me that is immoral. I am not claiming the moral high ground or trying to condemn you or anything - I just find it interesting that our concepts of morality are so different. It seems yours are grounded in legalities, while mine in "fairness". I have been told that there is a US court ruling that messageboards ownerrs had the right, but not the legal duty, to censure the posts, and are not to be held liable legally for the posts - the posters are. I am not sure of just how solid this information is, however.And about the actual thread's topic - thanks for the tables! [insert download sound here]</blockquote>

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