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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 4529009" data-attributes="member: 1190">If this were really the case, there would be no lawyers. No law can account for every contingency and the very basis of most legal systems is the concept of precedent, which is essentially past opinions (informed / expert opinions yes but still opinions) that form a consensus and help to dictate how the law will be interpreted in different situations.By my understanding of IP law as my brother the lawyer once explained it...With the issue of fair use and liability, the core issue would be if the sheet in question bypassed the need for a user to purchase the books and other supplements that WotC does not provide for free to all users. A sheet that does nothing more than the sheet available for reproduction in the back of the book or on the D&D Web site can in no way be perceived to infringe upon WotC's intellectual property unless it attempts to claim to be theirs.A sheet that autofills content that could only be found in the books (or through the paid sections of D&D Insider) is a clear violation of WotC's intellectual property and thus should be constrained to personal use and not made available to any other user that might be able to use that sheet to backward engineer copyrighted material in books without needing to purchase them.DC</blockquote>