[freeroleplay] Alleged Copyright Infringement and the History of RPGs
- From: Ricardo Gladwell <president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: FRPGC <freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:33:20 +0100
Hi All,
This is an interesting one: I received an email from a Sean Patrick
Fannon, author of "The Fantasy Roleplaying Gamer's Bible". The gist of
his somewhat brusque email was that he claims that the essay on the
history of RPGs kindly donated to the FRPGC by Steve Darlington
contained words "barely changed" from his own.
I examined the email, verified that Mr. Fannon was who he claimed to be
and decided to delete the page from the site. I also informed Steve
Darlington of Mr. Fannon's accusations. However, Steve denies that he
has even so much as read Mr. Fannon's essay.
This puts me into somewhat of a quandary. On the one hand, I would
prefer all material submitted to the FRPGC to be free of any copyright
infringement and from the risk thereof and, hence, would not tolerate
even the suspicion that a work might contain material copied illegally.
However, Mr. Fannon's email didn't actually provide any concrete
evidence of any copyright infringement, only the suggestion of it.
Whilst we do not want to break the law, we cannot simply let anyone who
suspects a work is copied from their own to dictate what we can and
cannot publish.
Anyone have any thoughts on this subject?
Kind regards,
--
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free Roleplaying Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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