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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7300841" data-attributes="member: 16814">Ah, Capn, thread policing again based on what you think other people want.  This is... idiotic.  Not to be mean, but this is really, really, really bad advice.  Bethesda has a great deal riding on it's IP right now -- the Skyrim Online game is their core product, and it's the IP of the setting that is selling it.  They also have a lawyers on retainer who will file lawsuits against you for the low, low price of what Bethesda is already paying them anyway, so it's zero cost to Bethesda to initiate a lawsuit against you for stealing their valuable IP.  Further, porting that IP into a competing format (and tabletop gaming competes in the same demographic as the Bethesda products for your time and dollars) is something they'd care about.  Finally, assuming that some nebulous harm to their reputation with people that are 1)clueless about IP and 2) willing to steal it because of 1 is just about the weakest concept of safety from lawsuit I can imagine.Granted, the first step here would likely be a C&D, which, if followed, would then be ignored, but the assumptions you've made about how safe it is to steal IP from Bethesda are just straight up wrong and dangerous.It's cute that you think that you being so wholly wrong and providing bad legal advice that has a strong likelihood of getting people sued if they follow it is something that you can hand-wave away by saying that such corrections aren't what you'd prefer to talk about.  You are wrong, and should really stop offering people bad legal advice.</blockquote>

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