On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 18:47:38 +0100, Mike Dymond wrote: >As has already been pointed out on this list you are allowed to PI >stuff that you cannot claim any protection from copyright law or >trademark law. So PI is needed to protect that material.
Why? All but a tiny minority of creative works are produced outside the confines of the OGL and rely on the protections afforded by copyright and trademark law. Steve Jackson Games, which produced some of the material you're concerned with protecting in your licensed books, relies on copyright and trademark law. The point you raise is interesting, but I can't help but think you've turned open gaming on its head a bit. The idea is to create a safe harbor in which we can collaborate without violating the intellectual property rights of each other. It wasn't to create a new class of intellectual property that we could unwittingly infringe. -- Rogers Cadenhead, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/01/2003 Weblog: http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
