Exactly.
Ryan
Then how are concepts ever protected under the OGL as PI?
They will never be trademarked or copyrighted. They will be floating around in the public domain as concepts. If you can just source a concept from the public domain then you can defeat any PI declaration for a concept.
It seems that one of two things must be true: either concepts must be protectable in spite of the fact that concepts, by their very nature, don't particularly belong to any one person under either trademark or copyright law, and such claims are granted by the OGL alone, simply because someone chooses to enact them
OR
concepts are listed for protection, but are de facto granted no protections, since you could always circumvent the protections by sourcing from the public domain
I don't see how you can source from the public domain AND also have protections for a pure concept.
Lee
