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To say this is the reason for the table top to refuse to import the POR files is not looking at the whole picture of what the file is and the information contained within.
To be perfectly honest, one could use content from anywhere and fill out a character sheet, and still use content that is contained within the IP without ever importing anything at all.
Whatever the reason for any company to not facilitate the importing of files to their platform, the fear of violating copyright law (by the user, not the platform that interpenetrated it) is far from being the main culprit for the exclusion. One could surmise that the file itself is using propitiatory means to gather the character info and use it in the HLC product, though Lonewolf has given their graces to allow table top platforms to relay that info for character use on the sites.
Whomever told you that this was the reasoning for not allowing this is not telling you the whole story. There likely is another reason altogether for the exclusion, one that has nothing to do with copyright.
Possibly, it could be the changable rules through the interface within HLC that would allow a person to institute house rules (like The World is Square add on). It also could be an issue with storage of info on the web site for those files (on the REPO site, whatever that is)
Right now, I can not directly import character info onto Roll20 for PF2 from HLO because API support is a GM only use and you have to pay for it. (and also make a game in which your the GM) For the casual player, a hard no go.
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