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Old 01-09-2007, 11:39 PM   #18
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Wow. Quite the little controversy we seem to have started. Or, no, we didn't start it. But whatever.

The policy as stated covers the codebase. And we're not going to get into the habit of policing any of it, but we will act on complaints if they are brought up.

What we won't do is act against complaints about the content, because we have no way of knowing if the mud operators have made arrangements behind the scenes for that or not. And it isn't our job to investigate that. Settling disputes over the content is between the IP owners and the mud operators.

As for George Lucas, he has been quoted before as saying he has no problem with fan fiction being created from his works. He's even gone so far as to hold award ceremonies and such for some of the more elaborate things people have done. I had a link to an article where he had been interviewed about it sometime back in 2000 or 2001, but I can't find it right now. The jist of it was though that as long as you weren't doing it for commercial gain, or doing something which defiled the image of his work, he was fine with it. So that would more or less protect any of the SWR based muds from harm.
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