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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 1445697" data-attributes="member: 5">Welcome to the EN World boards! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That's likely to be the primary sticking point in your suggestion since a lot of copyrights, trademarks and IP are involved.Folks do this now in so many various forms, utilizing the free space they get with their IP or the many other resources available online.  Is the only difference you are suggesting is that it is centralized?The closest thing to this now comes from WotC and you'd likely have to educate people in the use of the OGL, which might lead to some legal problems.  Are the Wikipedia people aware you are suggesting tying them to using an outside license, and have they approved of an outside party being the legal oversight committee for using such a license?  It's potentially a pretty big can of worms.  Do you have a legal background or are you just floating the idea as a layman?I've never been comfortable with the idea that some folks feel it is easier to remedy misuse of material ("Just contact us and we'll take it down...") than to do proper due diligence and assure that it never gets online in the first place.  There's a HUGE research responsibility that goes along with handling material from many sources as a repository and you run the risk of being the primary person named in a lawsuit if you head up such a project.I doubt it.  It hasn't happened yet, since the inception of the Intenet, and things were much, more loose in times past.  Just ask old hands like Hong about about the history of Internet (maybe he'll make some comments?)  Besides, I disagree that it is the one downfall.  There are many but the biggest one, IMO, is the legal responsibility (as previously mentioned).I think the closest thing to such an idea currently exists right here on EN World. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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