On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:30:43 -0500 "Matthew Hector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as the IP laws themselves are concerned, it would seem a lot > of them are superseded by the OGL.
Yes, indeed. The OGL is a license that allows you to make use of some copyrighted material that you might not otherwise have access to, in exchange for giving up some of the other IP rights you might overwise have. In some situations, other IP laws can be a part of OGL discussions (such as the whole question of what constitutes "ownership" for the purposes of being able to make a valid Product Identity claim) but at other times they can only provide analogies and parallels because users of the OGL agree not to play by all the IP laws that pertain to the outside world. One of the tricky things is knowing when one stops and the other starts. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
