Roll20 Earthdawn Character sheet - Permission to use text.
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:59 am
I have been developing an Earthdawn character sheet for Roll20 as a not for profit volunteer hobby activity. It is pretty nice, will roll correct step dice and even automatically roll and assign damage. It is about ready to be published and made available to the entire Roll20 community.
So far I have just been leaving blank text boxes where players can enter details of the talents and spells.
I would like to update the sheet so that all the standard 4th edition talents, skills, and spells were already known and the player merely had to select a talent or spell from a list, and it's full information would automatically be filled in by the computer.
My understanding of copyright law is that my providing a space where a player can fill in information is not a problem, and a player copying it into my sheet is fair use. However for me provide a computerized sheet with all the (copyrighted) information already programmed in is problematic.
Is there some way for me to get official permission (or official assurance it is not a problem) to include the text and other details of Talents, Skills, and Spells within the Roll20 Earthdawn character sheet I hope to make available to the entire Roll20 community?
Whom could grant such permission and how could I obtain it?
So far I have just been leaving blank text boxes where players can enter details of the talents and spells.
I would like to update the sheet so that all the standard 4th edition talents, skills, and spells were already known and the player merely had to select a talent or spell from a list, and it's full information would automatically be filled in by the computer.
My understanding of copyright law is that my providing a space where a player can fill in information is not a problem, and a player copying it into my sheet is fair use. However for me provide a computerized sheet with all the (copyrighted) information already programmed in is problematic.
Is there some way for me to get official permission (or official assurance it is not a problem) to include the text and other details of Talents, Skills, and Spells within the Roll20 Earthdawn character sheet I hope to make available to the entire Roll20 community?
Whom could grant such permission and how could I obtain it?