I absolutely agree with this interpretation. They can only have an ownership interest in their incarnation of that created fictional person who happens to have a name that comes from the public domain. Thus all their PI designation can mean is their incarnation.
Clark --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Spike, by my reading of the OGL, Product Identity > must be "clearly identified > as Product identity by THE OWNER of the Product > Identity". > > Mongoose can't claim ownership over a public domain > concept (at least not as > the term "ownership" would be applied to > intellectual property). They could > well claim ownership over a specific incarnation of > the character (that's > something that's ownable), they could claim a new > rendering of a public domain > character as PI, they could PI their novel > description of a public domain > character as PI (since that text would be > copyrightable). _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
