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Dark Spiral - Officially Sanctioned White Wolf Fan Sites
and Legal Notices on Web Usage

White Wolf recognizes the efforts of it's fans to support its games and products on the internet. We greatly appreciate the time, energy and expense that you have put into constructing and running your site and realize the benefit it provides us to have fans who are willing to do so. Currently, we are working on re-vamping the Dark Spiral list, designed to bring together that vast World of Darkness out there (and our other worlds, too!). Meanwhile, to be sure your site is all legal an' stuff, just follow the directions below.

Trademark and Copyright Usage

White Wolf Trademarks and copyrights may be used in the presentation of standard non-profit, non-revenue generating HTML World Wide Web Pages, non-graphical MUSHes, MUDs, MOOs, IRC and all similar Chat environments as per the Requirements and Restrictions listed below. If, for some reason, you do not wish to be part of the Dark Spiral, then you must still fulfill all of the other requirements on this page.

Requirements and Restrictions

The Requirements

You must meet the Requirements to be legally allowed to use any White Wolf related materials on your site. Your site must not violate any of the Restrictions listed below. Especially important is that fact that you must announce to people at the earliest opportunity that the materials you are using on your site are protected by legal copyrights. This means you must post the appropriate code listed below on the very first page where someone sees any material that is based upon White Wolf publications, whether it is the name of a game, a piece of artwork, a graphic, an excerpt or a protected concept. Usually this must be your home page, but if you run a site wherein only one section is based upon White Wolf publications and the rest is unrelated, you may post the code for the image and link on the front page of that particular section instead.

If you wish to be a part of the Dark Spiral, then you must include the following code:

<a href="http://www.white-wolf.com/fansites" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.white-wolf.com/darkspiral/darkspiral.gif" alt="Copyright White Wolf Publishing, Inc." border="0"></a><br><a href="http://www.white-wolf.com/legalize.html" target="_blank">Copyright White Wolf Publishing, Inc.</a>

Note that this must appear on the first page of your website where any of our materials appear if you wish to use any White Wolf copyrighted materials. It is a requirement for fair use. Reposting any of our material without our copyrights being stated or in violation of the Restrictions is stealing. In other words either you are sanctioned or you don't have permission to use any of our materials. In recognition of your fulfilling the requirements, we will place a link to your site in the White Wolf Dark Spiral list of officially sanctioned sites (once that system is rebuilt). This will get you more visitors, help you make more contacts and be a nifty online badge to show off to your friends.

If for some reason, you do not want to be part of the Dark Spiral list, but still wish to create a fan site, then you must make sure that your pages meet all of the requirements found on this page, and that they actively and visibly include the following code instead of the Dark Spiral code:

<a href="http://www.white-wolf.com/legalize.html" target="_blank">Copyright White Wolf Publishing, Inc.</a>

A note to Overseas/Non-English Sites

If you are hosting a web site in a foreign language, and we have an officially licensed translator for that language already, you must also have their permission to promote and host your web site. If a translator requests that you remove the material, you must do so. Here is a list of our officially Licensed Translators.

Restrictions: Legally Apply to ALL Sites

You may NOT repost our downloadable files on your site. This includes, but is not limited to, character sheets, graphics, FAQs or online free products, other than those found within the Dark Spiral resources. All of these items are copyright White Wolf and the ability to use them for "personal nonprofit use only" does not imply any permission to distribute them in any form.

Fees Or Charges

The site in question must be non-profit and non-revenue generating. You may not sell time, space, advertising, services, products or solicit money or goods in any way through your site.

Text

You must list our copyright on your homepage.
© 1990-2007 White Wolf Publishing, a division of CCP North America. All rights reserved.
You may list a personal copyright for your characters or graphics you have created for your site, but keep in mind anything that is derivative from our works is still owned by us. Two simple examples: If you make a character from clan Gangrel, that is not your character and could never be used without our permission. If you make a logo that has a clan symbol as a portion of it, you could never publish that piece of art without our permission. Even without this copyright on your homepage, that law still applies, so make it easy on both of us and post it :-)

You must have a link to our homepage displayed prominently on your homepage - http://www.white-wolf.com

Any text used must cite the Book taken from and the page number. You cannot use more that 1500 words or 3 pieces of art taken from any single book. In no case may you quote more than 10,000 words total taken from any White Wolf Products.

You cannot have character generation rules listed on your site or complete power listings (even if they are your own modifications). You can however list any changes to the rules For example: On our site we allow 50 extra freebie points.

You may not repost our downloads on your site. Example: Characters Sheets. If you want to help other fans find one of our resources, then link to it. Example: http://www.white-wolf.com/Download/Pages/Charactersheets.html

As a side note, use your brain here! You cannot repost entire books or enough information to run games. A note to people who think they are making up their own rules, if you use terms like Disciplines, Gifts, Rotes, Willpower, Humanity or list every discipline from a rule book with minor changes (or even major ones), those are not "your" rules, they are ours, don't use them.

Feel free to post any work of your own creation like new clans or tribes, new powers or disciplines, new bloodlines or whatever. That is your information and you own it, but be aware, stories created within our universe cannot be published anywhere for sale. If you write a story about a Toreador battling a Silent Strider, you could not publish that for sale without our permission.

Artwork

No more than three pieces of art may be taken from any book.

All graphic elements (Clan/Tribe/Tradition/Arcanos/Kith Logos, etc.) that may be used are found here. You may use these icons as is, or adjust them for color, texture and size to meet your needs. You may not change the basic shape or proportions of those icons.

You may not use other graphics taken from the White Wolf Web Site. This includes our animated symbols! All online graphic elements must be designed and created by you for your own site. We will be working hard to create our own look and would not like to see it duplicated.

White Wolf, Inc. reserves the right to withdraw these usage rights at any time with no prior notification.

Downloads

Downloads from our site are for personal use only. You are not given any permission to repost or propagate the downloads found on our site. If you wish to be helpful, then direct others to the downloads by linking to the appropriate pages. Many downloads can be found at http://www.white-wolf.com/download but many sections of our site offer even more. If you think the download is useful, then respect the wishes of those who created it and link people to it rather than stealing it. Downloads found anywhere on the internet which use our copyrights or trademarks are still considered derivative of our work and therefore fall under our copyrights, as per international copyright law.