I need to know that I have the legal weapons available to me to prevent someone from copying my PI on purpose! If what you say is true then someone can go into a games shop (or at a games convention) read through my book, remember all the PI (which I have handily giving him in on list) and then go home and use it in his own work (why he would do that I do not know, but it is a situation that I need to protect myself against, especially when I am dealing with very well known licences!). I also need to know that I can prevent my IP from becoming watered down and hence less valuable.If the PI is protected by copyright law--that is, no one can use it without using the OGL--then the OGL doesn't grant any extra rights to use it.
However, if what is PI'd is something that anyone can use without regards to the OGL, you have less protection of it. All anyone has to do is assert their Authority to Contribute the work, deny any derivation from your PI, and they're in--until you manage to argue that they derived from your PI / did not have authoirty to contribute.
DM
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