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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shakeshift" data-source="post: 8547285" data-attributes="member: 7034572">The funny part is that WotC can't really lose against Lanasa no matter what. They can just throw lawyers after lawyers at the problem, and tie the whole thing up in court until Lanasa goes completely broke from legal fees. They can just strand him on an island and let him slowly starve.Disney does this with independent contractors all the time. They lean in for a heavy 7-year drawn-out lawsuit, and their enemies go broke after year two because nobody has $400,000 for lawyer's fees and court costs and legal expenditures. It's nothing to Disney, but the average person goes broke in no time at all.And yes, as someone else pointed out, Lanasa cannot get "back" the TSR copyright because he never owned it, had anything to do with it, never created anything for it, or was paid for TSR ownership when it was sold in 1997, and later acquired by Hasbro in 1999. At that point, everyone on this forum board has as much "ownership" of TSR as Justin Lanasa has. I actually have more, because I can easily describe the entire game in detail, which puts me light years ahead of Lanasa.Lanasa can't get the original TSR because he's never owned it in his life. He can trot out Ernie Gygax all he wants, but Ernie also has no claim since his father sold his shares in 1985.  Ernie has no factual claim, legal or otherwise. He's as clueless about all of this as Justin.</blockquote>