Whats the deal with WotCs copyright policy?
The deal is that when TSR started to develop a real presence on the Internet, some of the things they found were scans of their books and artwork, many trademark violations, a number of additional copyright violations, and other such infringements of their intellectual property. In August 1994, TSR announced a very restrictive policy regarding the use of TSR-copyrighted information, as well as the use of TSR’s trademarks. This was followed by several years of fairly regular flamewars and general hard feelings all around on the subject. Almost exactly three years later, in September 1997, TSR radically changed this policy, giving a lot more free reign to the creation and distribution by gamers of AD&D material. Now, as long as you don’t make any money off of it, don’t use TSR’s graphics, don’t misuse TSR’s trademarks, don’t quote a lot from TSR’s books, and don’t mislead anyone as to the “officialness” of a file or web page, you’re basically in the clear. If you are interested in creati
