On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, jdomsalla wrote: > A source I'm drawing from has the following S15 entry: > > [Product Name] and the above designated Product Identity are Copyright > [Year], [Publisher]. > > Now, is it just me, or is there a problem with putting this line into my > material? After all, the "above designated Product Identity" is going to be > *my* Product Identity, and I don't see this line doing anything except > causing issues.
In my review of Vigilance: Absolute Power, I predicted that few publishers would want to borrow any Open Content from the book, because they wouldn't want to deal with the crippled Section 15 notice: the notice claimed all artwork as copyright Mystic Eye Games. Not only is the notice misleading, but since the art wasn't included in the Open Content designation (which was fairly poor intself), but was specifically included in the Product Identity declaration, it really had no place being in the Section 15 notice since the art wasn't among the things that could potentially be borrowed. > Yes, I have sent emails. No, I have not gotten a reply. Now I'm > half-tempted to hit all the publisher forums I know (ENWorld, Mortality, > WotC d20 page, etc.) and just post a "public announcement" that I'm removing > the stupid part for obvious reasons. You'd still be in breach of the license; morally right, but legally wrong. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
