On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:03:15 -0500 woodelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 17:34 -0700 7/22/03, Michael Cortez wrote: > > >> If you can just source a concept from the public > >>> domain then you can defeat any PI declaration for > >>> a concept. > > > >You first have to find that concept in the public domain. > > > >If the only place you find that concept, is in a OGL work, and it > >doesn't exist anywhere else, then you can't use it. > > I bet, with a couple of leading questions, i can get my brother to > come up with any concept i want, and then source him. And he's not > a gamer, and has essentially no truck with online stuff.
You'll note that in my longer version of what Ryan said, I used the words "pre-existing body of" etc. If the concept didn't exist in the public domain for you to source *before* someone else claimed it as PI, then the PI claim may be valid. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
