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WOTC Cracking down on posts at ENWorld

Started by Joethelawyer, April 29, 2010, 08:21:37 PM

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Nightfall

#15
April 29, 2010, 08:48:27 PM
Okay it's offical. WotC's legal department and Hasbro's management team are idiots.
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Benoist

#16
April 29, 2010, 08:48:40 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;377475Oh snap.  I posted a question about it and that post is GOOOOOOOOOONE
Been moved to Meta. There.

Nightfall

#17
April 29, 2010, 08:51:12 PM
I still can't believe even with all the moderation going on at En World AND the fact WotC has yet to do much about losing revenue, this is the most important thing that WotC has to do.
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thedungeondelver

#18
April 29, 2010, 08:51:47 PM
Quote from: T. Foster;377474Am I a bad person for thinking it would actually be pretty funny if they did that to Sean K. Reynolds?:p

That would make you one of the finest men who ever breathed.
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Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Nightfall

#19
April 29, 2010, 08:52:38 PM
Only if they went after his 4th edition stuff...which as far as I know doesn't exist.
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Joethelawyer

#20
April 29, 2010, 08:55:14 PM
According to Morrus on the ENWorld thread:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/275955-so-what-posts-here-does-wizards-coast-have-problem.html

"I'll not point anything out directly, but there was a large amount of WotC's IP (direct from the  books) posted.  It has been dealt with."


You'd think a quick email to Morrus, without getting the Legal Dept. involved would have settled it?  I'm sure he would have taken it down with a quick email saying "Hey man, there are parts of our books copied and pasted on your forum. Please take it down."
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thedungeondelver

#21
April 29, 2010, 08:55:15 PM Last Edit: April 29, 2010, 08:56:08 PM by thedungeondelver
Yeah looks like someone was doing copypasta on whole sections of 4e books.

I mean, I'm no dummy; if somebody posted up bunches of stuff from 1e books on my forum I'd take it down when asked, too.
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Astrophysicists are reassessing Einsteinian relativity because the 28 billion l

Benoist

#22
April 29, 2010, 08:57:13 PM
It's interesting that they're taking the IP fight to the forums themselves, though, don't you think? I don't exactly know "how" interesting, significant, meaningful that is, in whatever possible way, but it is. Interesting, that is.

Joethelawyer

#23
April 29, 2010, 09:01:08 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;377486Yeah looks like someone was doing copypasta on whole sections of 4e books.

I mean, I'm no dummy; if somebody posted up bunches of stuff from 1e books on my forum I'd take it down when asked, too.

You need a legal department letter for that?  It's like killing a fly with a sawed-off shotgun.  I'm sure a quick email would have solved it.
~Joe
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JRients:   "Joe the Lawyer is a known shit-stirrer. He stirred the shit. He got banned. Asking what he did to stir the shit introduces unnecessary complication to the scenario, therefore he was banned for stirring the shit."


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thedungeondelver

#24
April 29, 2010, 09:06:21 PM
Quote from: Joethelawyer;377490You need a legal department letter for that?  It's like killing a fly with a sawed-off shotgun.  I'm sure a quick email would have solved it.

Man haven't you heard?  The days of "dudes who work at Wizards of the Coast" are gone.  Long gone.  Now they can't even ask you what kind of a day you're having without a fucking permission slip from Hasborg's lawyers.
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Astrophysicists are reassessing Einsteinian relativity because the 28 billion l

Aos

#25
April 29, 2010, 09:10:10 PM
I'm sad that our horse died so early on in the thread.
I suggest we beat the fuck out of it.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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Joethelawyer

#26
April 29, 2010, 09:12:39 PM
Quote from: Aos;377498I'm sad that our horse died so early on in the thread.
I suggest we beat the fuck out of it.


Yeah I was looking forward to a weekend of heavy duty WOTC bashing.  Alas...

Still, whats it say about the mindset over there that we're reduced to letters from legal over bullshit like this?
~Joe
Chaotic Lawyer and Shit-Stirrer

JRients:   "Joe the Lawyer is a known shit-stirrer. He stirred the shit. He got banned. Asking what he did to stir the shit introduces unnecessary complication to the scenario, therefore he was banned for stirring the shit."


Now Blogging at http://wondrousimaginings.blogspot.com/


Erik Mona: "Woah. Surely you\'re not _that_ Joe!"

thedungeondelver

#27
April 29, 2010, 09:15:49 PM
Quote from: Joethelawyer;377500Yeah I was looking forward to a weekend of heavy duty WOTC bashing.  Alas...

Still, whats it say about the mindset over there that we're reduced to letters from legal over bullshit like this?

It says that they're the corporate dickheads they swore they'd never grow up to be.
THE DELVERS DUNGEON


Mcbobbo sums it up nicely.

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Astrophysicists are reassessing Einsteinian relativity because the 28 billion l

Narf the Mouse

#28
April 29, 2010, 09:16:54 PM
WotC may have to send the "lawyer letter" to keep all the legal red tape sorted. Copyright law is insane, AFAIK.

Edit: Not that I'm dismissing "WotC being a bully" - Could be either.
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Joethelawyer

#29
April 29, 2010, 09:19:43 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;377503It says that they're the corporate dickheads they swore they'd never grow up to be.


The Corpo-Borg Assimilation is complete.
~Joe
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JRients:   "Joe the Lawyer is a known shit-stirrer. He stirred the shit. He got banned. Asking what he did to stir the shit introduces unnecessary complication to the scenario, therefore he was banned for stirring the shit."


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