<<You seem to think that if I am right then nobody will be able to produce any new material for fear of treading on someone else's PI.
I think that if you are right then no publisher will ever produce any decent material for our beloved system because they will have absolutely no protection for any PI they have designated!
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How could you possibly believe this? Except for individual, untrademarked names, prohibitions against compatibility declarations, and protection for concepts, almost all PI is _already_ given strong protection via copyright and trademark laws.
<<This is a tricky conundrum. The only solution I can think of is a PI repository, but that seems to have been snubbed by the rest of the list.>
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The problem is, that de facto people would have to publish all their PI to the internet for free. I PI a short story. Now I have to publish the entire short story on the internet to "protect" it?!! Some protection.
Also, even if the repository were limited to terms, many people wouldn't participate, or the terms may not actually merit protection outside of a context where they are associated with a specific spell, set of rules, etc.
Lee
