> Doug Meerschaert
>
> This was true in the old, complex OGL--but is it still true?
Yes, it is when I read it. OGC and PI must be exclusive.
> >If you are devoted to shaded boxes for OGC and white text for
> PI, then you
> >need an 'escape hatch' so that you can refer between the two sections.
> >Something to the effect that "All items in shaded boxes are OGC, except
> >terms in italics, which are PI. All items not in shaded boxes are PI,
> >except for terms in Bold, which are OGC".
>
> PI Trademarks aside, is this really necessary?
If you want private PI, then you're going to have to do something to
separate the from the OGC. The above is not my first choice, but yes, the
license demands that they each be clearly marked in some way.
> If the only thing in my work that's OGC is the conversion notes
> in the back,
> then I can just clearly identify them and not put any important
> trademarks
> in the back.
>
> If the only thing in my work that's PI is the name, I can just
> identify that
> and say "all instances of this name are PI." (right?)
Yes, with the caveat that you can't allow the identification to overlap. By
this I mean the title cannot be construed to be in both PI and OGC.
This is fine:
"All items in this document are Open Gaming Content except for instances of
'Dougworld', which is Product Identity".
But this has a potential problem:
"All plain text is OGC. 'Dougworld' is PI." and then have 'Dougworld'
appear in plain text, because the two statements cannot both be true. If
'Dougworld' only appeared in Bold or in Red, then that would not be plain
text, and everything would be fine.
-Brad
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