> Ryan S. Dancey
>
> > This isn't hypothetical. I have this article that's ready to go, and a
> > ready publisher, but I don't want to violate the license if it appears
> next
> > to content that is illegal under the OGL.
>
> I continue to not understand the question.
>
> Can you give me a simple case where a magazine publishing some OGC means
> that the magazine has violated the terms of the license?
I'll try to phrase it another way.
Lets assume there is a magazine called "Game Stuff". It is a real print
magazine that bears a passing resemblance to Dragon and Dungeon in content
and format. It publishes articles on lots of different games.
Now lets assume that one of those articles contains Open Gaming Content. It
is an prestige class for "Couch Lawyers", laymen who sound like they know
the law when they really don't (level advancement doesn't confer better
knowledge of the law, just better use of jargon. I'm guessing I'd be around
8th level).
According to the terms of the OGL, publishing in a magazine is clearly
Distribution under Section 1(c), and the only way an entity can Distribute
OGC is by accepting the terms of the OGL, as demanded by Section 3.
My questions are thus:
1) is the entire issue of the magazine covered by the OGL?
2) what is the legal status of the rest of the material in the magazine? Is
it PI? Is it something else?
3) if so, what rules, if any does the publisher have to follow to legally
publish this article?
4) can the article is also license the D20 STL, and if so how can the
magazine publisher use the D20 System trademark?
5) if the editor makes a comment in his "From the Editor" column like
"...Couch Lawyers are a new prestige class for the d20 System, they work
great with the new version of D&D, you can read about them..." would that
violate the OGL?
-Brad
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