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<blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 3642011" data-attributes="member: 10177">I doubt xp tables are copyrightable. If so there are a lot of companies who can be sued, and none have, even though they have been around for decades.As for OSRIC, if it was so dubious I believe WOTC would have made legal notifications by now. Its been what? Two years?Plus one of the people behind OSRIC have said he has discussed the legal issues with WOTC's legal department and that he and WOTC are satisfied with OSRIC. Which is why he is careful not to make any money off of OSRIC as a rules set. He sells it at cost.So anyone who does anything based directly off of copying stuff out of OSRIC and then sells it for profit, may be in trouble.So anyone who does any product based off of OSRIC better only refer to the OSRIC document, don't copy anything from it. Unless your giving it away for free. Which would be a smart plan if there is a bigger product you want to do, but the rules base isn't in OSRIC itself. So give away the new rules document, or sell at no profit as POD, then sell the big product having it refer to the free rules document at profit making prices.Still lots of grey areas in copyright law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Treebore, post: 3642011, member: 10177"] I doubt xp tables are copyrightable. If so there are a lot of companies who can be sued, and none have, even though they have been around for decades. As for OSRIC, if it was so dubious I believe WOTC would have made legal notifications by now. Its been what? Two years? Plus one of the people behind OSRIC have said he has discussed the legal issues with WOTC's legal department and that he and WOTC are satisfied with OSRIC. Which is why he is careful not to make any money off of OSRIC as a rules set. He sells it at cost. So anyone who does anything based directly off of copying stuff out of OSRIC and then sells it for profit, may be in trouble. So anyone who does any product based off of OSRIC better only refer to the OSRIC document, don't copy anything from it. Unless your giving it away for free. Which would be a smart plan if there is a bigger product you want to do, but the rules base isn't in OSRIC itself. So give away the new rules document, or sell at no profit as POD, then sell the big product having it refer to the free rules document at profit making prices. Still lots of grey areas in copyright law. [/QUOTE]

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