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Brilliant_Rock
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It seems to me that we're really talking about two distinct scenarios here. One is the situation that Pandora and LD referenced, which is when someone designs a setting herself, posts it, and it is replicated in every detail, and the copy posted with or without attribution. The second scenario is when a PS'er uses a vendor to either design or adapt a previously made setting, and then someone else on PS sees it and has the same thing made. In the first case, if it was an original design, the design is clearly the PS'ers intellectual property, and at best copying it in every detail is rude. The second case is a little fuzzier: who owns the design, the vendor or the owner of the original piece? When is it okay to copy, and when not?
ETA: And for the second scenario I'm using "own" in a moral or ethical sense rather than in a legal sense.
ETA: And for the second scenario I'm using "own" in a moral or ethical sense rather than in a legal sense.