How is an ad covered by the license? If it
were, would the ad not be required to have a minimum of 5% OGC? Would it not
require the OGL? The declaration of OGC and PI? An ad is a REPRESENTATION of
the product – it is not the product. If the product is not compliant that
is because of the product itself, not the ad (and the other way around.)
The ads in Dragon do NOT contain OGL’d
products. They do NOT contain OGC. They contain ADS for OGL’d products.
That’s a very important distinction. By the logic that you’re
putting forth, buying a copy of Dragon with a MnM ad in it means I’ve
purchased MnM and not just an ad. I find it very hard to believe that this is
how the license is interpreted.
Regards,
Steven Trustrum
President For
Life (or until the money runs out)
Misfit Studios
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416-857-2433
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Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005
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Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Interesting
comments about Creative Commons license
In a message dated 8/23/2005 2:15:55
PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dragon is licensing
directly from WotC, if I'm not mistaken. Dragon
doesn't need to follow the OGL or d20 STL at all because it is getting
direct permission from WotC to use its open content AND PI.
Dragon has a number of advertisements and articles historically that use the
OGL. Magazines are themselves works which contain other works. So
technically the magazine as a whole may not be a "work covered by the
license" but individual ads and articles may be, by themselves,
"works covered by the license". However, WotC FAQ says if you
distribute things like this (bundled somehow) then the OGL extends to the
bundle instead of the covered work (I do NOT agree with this
interpretation). But if this is true, by their own logic, then every
Dragon with a single OGL'd ad (Mutants and Masterminds did this a lot), etc.
makes the whole Dragon a "work covered by the license" and
potentially makes everything in the "work covered by the license" OGC
if it hasn't been declared as PI. Clearly, this is not what is
happening. Only individual articles are "works covered by the
license", not the entire magazine, and WotC's FAQ file question on bundled
goods is full of crap.
They were foolish to make that comment about the way bundled items and
collections work and then have individual OGL covered ads in their magazine.
Lee
