So if I have a product and in my OGC declarations I say "All the text is Open Game Content blah blah blah" (I have seen this done) that anything that is not text falls into copyright/trademark land instead of PI land, be it trademark, artwork, trade dress, etc?
Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of woodelf Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Re: Credits/Compatibility At 12:56 -0500 8/27/03, Bryan Gillispie wrote: >I can see what you are saying but it's my understanding that only >OGC has to be clearly marked, anything else not in that declaration >or showing up on the PI definitions list is PI unless it is >specifically released as OGC. Is that understanding not correct? >Maybe my caution has clouded my interpretation of the OGL. If it's >not listed in the OGC declarations I don't touch it. You've run afoul of the "secret" 3rd sort of content in a work covered by the WotC OGL: closed content. The license is quite obtuse about this, but there are actually 3 sorts of content in a work governed by it: OGC, PI, and Everything Else. Anything not declared OGC or PI is, by default, Everything Else. Which is governed by normal copyright/trademark/patent laws, for the most part (there are a couple more restrictions, such as against compatibility claims, but that's about it)--i.e., you can't automatically reuse it, as you can OGC, but neither are you automatically forbidden from using it, as you are PI. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ William Safire's Rules for Writers: The adverb always follows the verb. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
