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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anathos" data-source="post: 5369620" data-attributes="member: 97138">Not really. WotC gives you authorization to cache the data for the purpose of viewing the data online in the same way that they authorize you to copy down powers from books for the purpose of playing a character. Other uses of that data have not been authorized, and using in those other ways does represent copyright infringement. While you're within fair use if you made a program like Masterplan but only saved the information that was going into your campaign notes (this is the purpose of having access to the data, and it doesn't matter what tool you use to accomplish this task), recording some or all of the data for you to browse though at your leisure even after your subscription runs out is far beyond legal.Let's examine this through analogy. If you want to read a book you don't own you can borrow it from the library, read it, and then return it. This is perfectly legal, and an intended use of the book. If you want to read a page off to a friend of yours because you want to share something you really liked you're also within the bounds of intended use. If you make a photocopy of the entire book to keep at home in case you want to reread it after you return it to the library you've stepped outside of authorized use and into the realm of copyright infringement.I agree with pretty much everything else you said.</blockquote>