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Fascinating. Did not know that about WW. Law likely changed since then, particularly the standards of what has to be proven and what doesn't.

I vaguely remember this but I don't think there was ever anything filed in court? (plz correct me if I'm wrong tho! It looked like a bit of internal OSR community fighting from what I remember)

Indeed. That's definitely a lot clearer and easier to prove in court than, say, a game or story. 100% bad idea from a copyright standpoint, unless the goal is parody or "fair use."

Are there any public examples, by chance? It sounds 100% bonkers. Not heard of any myself.

Even then, circumstance and Fair Use can save your rear so many times. But yeah, "inspired by" ain't copyright infringement, thankfully. (in US law at least.)

It depends on the degree of inspiration, I suppose. It's REALLY hard to prove you stole something in copyright without direct proof found via discovery or 1-to-1 examples.

Won't lie; that looks pretty cool.

Grats!

That's definitely what came to mind. I know that a lot's happened since the payment processor events occurred, and some people are talking about finding alternatives to DTRPG and Itch.io. Beehiiv is more focused on 'media entrepreneurs, ' but it might be a tool to at least look at for designers.

For context: www.youtube.com/live/DG-gAaa...

Lot of other functions too. I use it for TTRPG Insider. But just seems interesting.

Five minutes later, the repairman came back and let me in. Very thankful to them. But I am definitely feeling dumb.

good luck!