taking advantage of others' hard work...

[Conandy]

So, being very new to RW and starting the process of inputting campaign and adventure data into the tool, I have seen a lot of the youtube folks (daplunk for instance) have spent an enormous amount of time inputting things like all the canned WotC campaign modules into their own RW worlds.

The thought of doing all this work over again for myself is rather daunting. Especially when I see that it "has already been done". So my question is:

Is there now, or will there be via the Content Marketplace, a way for users to "sell" the hard work they have put into this effort and make the WotC (or other) content into downloadable/transferable content for others? For instance, I would gladly pay to download Princes of the Apocalypse in RW from someone who has already done the work to input it and set it up. If I already own the hard back, of course. So then I would be simply buying the labor that someone else has spent inputting it into RW that which I already own my own copy of.

Sorry if this is a naive question, and I know that there are WotC licensing and copyright issues involved, but is this something that will be possible? I am not asking, in any way, how to pirate licensed material. Just if there are ways to capitalize on other's work in inputting that material into RW.

Of course if RW had licensing agreements with WotC to sell the content, that would be another story altogether. I wouldn't be thrilled to pay for the material again, but on the other hand, the time involved to input a whole campaign module would be MUCH more than the $49 nominal cost of buying it again in RW form.

Thanks.

[daplunk]

This is a question of legality and ultimately the law says no we cannot do this.

We need LWD and WOTC to agree on a license agreement. It's the only way we will be able to simply input the content we all so badly want.

If you check my signature there is a link to some stuff we have been able to legally release, there's a fair bit of the 5e SRD for example.

[Conandy]

Originally Posted by daplunk

This is a question of legality and ultimately the law says no we cannot do this.

We need LWD and WOTC to agree on a license agreement. It's the only way we will be able to simply input the content we all so badly want.

If you check my signature there is a link to some stuff we have been able to legally release, there's a fair bit of the 5e SRD for example.

Thanks, Joshua. I assumed this was probably the answer, but it seems silly in the big picture. I can see, however, how WotC would fear (rightly so) that this would open up a potential serious piracy issue. My personal intent is just to be able to take advantage of work other users have already made, on content I own, and compensate them for it. Sigh.

Hope WotC and LWD work something out.