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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 1735298" data-attributes="member: 20741"><p>Lorraine Williams is no longer at the helm of D&D.</p><p></p><p>While complying with the OGL is a fine thing, and any answer which recommended it would be - of course - the academically "correct" answer, the fact that you did NOT comply with it for your fan based campaign site, in respect of which you are not selling material, is really a very different question than confronts a publisher in its practical effect.</p><p></p><p>Does the fact that you are a fan site "change" the law of copyright? No it does not.</p><p></p><p>As a practical matter, does it change the likelihood of anyone caring at all what you do?</p><p></p><p>Most assuredly it does. </p><p></p><p>The practical answer is that if you do what you like and are not selling the material, shy of reprinting massive amounts of material so that you have a real adverse commercial effect on the rights holder in your doing whatever it is that you are trying to do - no one is going to care much and the chances of an injunction, lawsuit or even a cease and desist letter are woefully remote.</p><p></p><p>The correct practical answer is simple: spend more of your mental energy on your site - and less of it being concerned with the issues raised in this thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 1735298, member: 20741"] Lorraine Williams is no longer at the helm of D&D. While complying with the OGL is a fine thing, and any answer which recommended it would be - of course - the academically "correct" answer, the fact that you did NOT comply with it for your fan based campaign site, in respect of which you are not selling material, is really a very different question than confronts a publisher in its practical effect. Does the fact that you are a fan site "change" the law of copyright? No it does not. As a practical matter, does it change the likelihood of anyone caring at all what you do? Most assuredly it does. The practical answer is that if you do what you like and are not selling the material, shy of reprinting massive amounts of material so that you have a real adverse commercial effect on the rights holder in your doing whatever it is that you are trying to do - no one is going to care much and the chances of an injunction, lawsuit or even a cease and desist letter are woefully remote. The correct practical answer is simple: spend more of your mental energy on your site - and less of it being concerned with the issues raised in this thread. [/QUOTE]
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