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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Eagling" data-source="post: 6145608" data-attributes="member: 6703609">Firstly, that's factually incorrect but I digress.As far as I can ascertain this author has written original stories that are entirely her own work (according to her, at least. I've never heard of her before this all kicked off). Assuming she's being honest about that then these stories are her own and she owns the copyright to that arrangement of words. However, they appear to be a derivative work of the Mystara setting, which is a violation of copyright law because someone else owns the intellectual property in which her stories are set. She also appears to have infringed the copyright of the artists or owners of the artwork used on her covers--a further set of violations.I've read a whole bunch of websites today where (a minority of) people have bemoaned how truly awful copyright law is, how it impinges upon creativity, and how the world would be truly lovely if we got rid of lawyers and laws and intellectual property. Apparently the world would be shiny and new and covered in pastel pink and blue flowers in a ratio of two to one.I'm not claiming the legal systems of 21st century Earth are perfect but I'd rather live in a world where should I create a fictional setting it isn't ripped off by someone else unless I say it's OK first.</blockquote>