Re:Not infringement (Score 1)

As long as all trademarks and copyrights are attributed, there's no infringement here. Sorry. You're interpreting copyright law wrong. Attribution is irrelevant in this context. Here's the relevant section of the statuate. Sec. 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use: "Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.". Is this work a criticism? Nope. Is it a commentary? Nope. Is it news reporting? Nope. Is it for teaching purposes? Nope (teaching purposes in this context is formal education systems, not self-help guides) Scholarship? Nope. Research? He undoubtably did reseach to make that guide (which is protected) but his usage within the distrubted guide is not research. I'd say that's pretty clearly not fair-use from the statuate as written. It's also illustrative to notice that it's the writer suing Blizzard, not vice-versa. All Blizzard did was ask Ebay to remove his guide , and Ebay did so without lawsuit. If the guy has complaints about that, he should direct his anger against Ebay and their policies.