On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> >The OGL is all about making the gray areas of
> >IP law as they apply to RPGs go away. The more gray areas that go away,
> >the
> >happier I will be.
>
> Me too - emphatically. But am very concerned that the Open Gaming License
> and the Open Gaming Foundation are used to make the grey areas go away in
> the direction of openness - *not* more restrictions.
Then shouldn't you simply be arguing for doing away with copyright
protection entirely? After all, that is the most open.
The new language limits people's ability to earn their sales based upon
the work of others - the holder of the trademark they are trying to
use. While the biggest benefactor may be WotC, it will also protect all
future OGL & D20 publishers who trademark their own settings. If you want
to be able to claim you've created a better D&D, it's not unreasonable
that you actually do the work rather than taking most of it from D&D under
the OGL.
alec
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