This_Is_My_Boomstick!!:
Just noticed this on Warseer and wondered if it would affect the CD Army Book recently done as it does look like a GW one - but obviously much better
GW war on fan produced material
I’m quite surprised not to find a thread on this already. It appears that GW lawyers have been sending out C&D letters to at least boardgamegeek, if not other websites telling them to remove fan generated resources.
So far so reasonable you might think, but this is related to ALL games that GW have ever produced, not to 40k, WFB and the like. Just as an example material related to such random old games as “curse of the mummy’s tomb”, “judge dread RPG”, “Man O’ War”, “Battlecars” and “Horus Heresy” has been pulled.
Seems a bit odd to me, but I was wondering if there was any impact over here on Warseer? Surely, logically, it must mean (just off the top of my head) that fan fiction, art and rules dev forums will come under the spotlight?
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