<<I don't understand this statement. Are you saying that the WotC OGL
builds the authority to declare PI upon copyright law? How is that
possible, given that almost everything in the exemplary list for PI is
not protectable by copyright?>>
Almost all of them are protectable, but only as collections of items. The case law on recipe books covers this type of copyrightability of collections of otherwise uncopyrightable elements. Also, things like names may be copyrightable insofar as they are attached to a very specific character description. A character name (or spell name, etc.) removed from its corresponding description and not presented inside the collection of other names that originally appeared with it would not be copyrightable (although it could be trademarkable).
Lee
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