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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3399654" data-attributes="member: 8439">I would consider a person's ability to decide if and how and on what terms they decide to share their work to be a moral issue. Lying (which is what you do when you say "I will accept your work under these terms" then violate the terms) is a moral issue. Cheating a person by taking more from an exchange than they agreed to is a moral issue.As for the OP, the issue is whether it is acceptable to wizards to copy spells from their spell books without their permission. In the majority of cases, it wouldn't be. If there wasn't a very structured legal system in place, wizards would deal with this unacceptable behaviour as they saw fit, and the local law would stay out of it as private business that the spell slingers could sort out for themselves. In a structured legal system where personal justice was unacceptable, it would be against the law, to prevent wizard fueds, which can cause quite a bit of colatoral damage.It is likely that in the structured legal systems that made it a formal crime, the crime would be called "spell theft" or something of the like, because in addition to lacking strong intelectual property laws, psuedomedieval settings lack anti-IP activists to object to using easy terms.</blockquote>