I assume you mean Permission from the owners of that logo, as opposed to
permission from WotC. I wouldn't want to have to get permission from
Wizards before placing my Own trademark on a OGL product :)
-John
"Ryan S. Dancey" wrote:
>
> Had a fantastic meeting with legal today. Brian Lewis, who is the chief
> corporate counsel for WotC sat in and had lots of positive things to say
> about the process.
>
> We're going to be making some changes to the text over the next day or two,
> and hope to have an "approved" license ready by Monday of next week.
>
> The biggest change we're going to be making is adding a clause that
> basically prohibits anyone who uses Open Game Content from using another
> company's trademarks on that product without permission.
>
> This is another "carrot and stick" clause. The idea behind this clause is
> to stop someone from just putting "this product is compatible with the D20
> System. The D20 System is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast and is not
> used with permission." on their Open Gaming products without conforming to
> the D20 System license; or worse, using someone's game brand name (clearly
> for me, the worst case would be to have someone use D&D). The legal issues
> here are so murky that nobody wants to even render an opinion on how
> effective a suit might be if one were brought to stop this kind of use.
>
> Brian also would like to take a crack at cracking the nut of "game rules" as
> a definable intellectual property. He's going to try and draft some clear
> language that will make it very easy to keep the game mechanics separate
> from story-character IP, and get rid of some of the ambiguity in the
> existing license.
>
> Ryan
>
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