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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 4733106" data-attributes="member: 2020">This is a legal question.  Many, many years ago, a DM said to me 'you can have it, if I can see it.'  I decided to start typing spells down out of sourcebooks, so I could see them (and show him these spells, so 'I could use them, because he could see them' )  This was a list for my own use *only*.  Obviously, giving anyone a copy was a violation of copyright, and I never did this.  I also never got the chance to use this list.  My DM quit, nobody else was interested ... but I continued to build the list as a hobby, for my own amusement.  I called this list the Everlist (because it kept growing, ever growing, and I knew I would never complete it.)  I ended up copying down (with plenty of spelling mistakes) most of the spells from 1st and 2nd edition.  In many cases, I copied the spells multiple times, as multiple versions of the spell existed.  And I never did complete the list.  Up until now, I *never* contemplated sharing the list.  Because with Copyright, you assume you *can't do it*, unless they specifically tell you that you *can*.  Now, though, it seems that everything 1E and 2E is ... what do you call it? ... open content?  Or, available to the public?  You can put it up, online?  *** Would it be ok, for me to copy and paste some (or even any at all) of the spells of the Everlist to ENWorld, then?  Is this legal? ***  I wanted to share my work with folks here.  I just wanted to share my efforts, and start a discussion about these old spells (which nobody seems to use anymore.)  *** But I will not do it unless it is *legal.*  And someone in authority tells me that it is legal.  I, obviously, do not wish to break any laws. ***  Yours Sincerely  Edena_of_Neith</blockquote>

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