Mallaidh, if you mean Appleby Village or another town that is just a respawn area, they can be removed from the server
These aren't 'just respawn areas' and they can't just be removed from the server. A lot of effort went into creating these, and towns that don't house quests are just as important as towns that do house quests. They keep the map lively, and are places to explore - my personal favourite town Rushstone doesn't have any quests at the moment, but I love it all the same.
Also, I fail to see how Appleby Village is the only one this applies to? Almost all of the pw towns don't exist in HP canon. You can't just remove these as removing all of them would leave the map bare and empty, and also means that there is nowhere for the majority of in-game quests to happen.
What I meant in my post was all of the towns with PW lore, which I made very clear, and these are also the ones you are saying could just be removed. These are all the towns that would be removed:
-Haggleton
-Rushstone
-Antrum
-Gnollberg Port
-Greenshore
-Appleby Village
-Wigtown
-Eldham Ridge
-Squalus Cove
-Longbay Landing
-Tristmoor
-Wightwaye
-Edgebrook
-Portstead
If I missed any off this list, or have accidentally put one down that does have an equivalency in hp canon, please tell me and I can edit it.
If you meant locations that don't have any quests, thats still quite a few towns that people enjoy to explore and do have points and purposes in the game that would just be removed after all of the effort put into them.
As for Witchcraft and Wizardry getting copyright, keep in mind that Potterworld makes money off the server and what it creates. Now, I'm not entirely familiar with copyright laws so please correct me if I'm wrong here but Witchcraft and Wizardry doesn't make money off of HP products, so it has nothing to worry about really. However. PW would be making money off of HP products which I believe is one of the big reasons we need to have lore in the first place? Could be completely and entirely wrong there, but I think the fact that PW has a store does make a big difference here.
Finally, its really not in any way easy to 'get copyright'. Its an extremely complex legal process which I'm not familiar with, and I'm sure you're not familiar with, and is a lot of work for something that the server really won't benefit from. I highly, highly doubt they will look at a suggestion and decide to enter this extremely complicated legal process in order to complete this suggestion.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if this has been made a suggestion in the past - lore has been around for a long, long time. Many people have wanted it to change, and the decision has been no every time. I don't think this will change now.