On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
> If you have a "magazine" web site, being a collection of articles all linked
> together thorugh a home page or an article index and presented as a unit of
> content, all served from the same fully qualified domain name, my belief is
> that in the long run, the courts will decide that you've got one work, and
> all that content has to comply with the terms of the license.
However unlike printed magazines, readers of web-based magazines are at
liberty to pick and choose which articles, reviews and editorials they
wish to download. I know The Guild Companion's audience is extremely
fragmented. The role-players ignore the CCG content, the card-gamers
ignore the RPG content, and the wargamers ignore both. Each item is an
individual work and can be included or *excluded* from any issue without
changing the overall result. (*) This will become even more clear once we
get our search engine up and running to allow retrieval of individual
articles from the archives.
(* I think this is the difference between periodicals and modules
masquerading as periodicals. Pull a chunk out of most modules and they're
probably broken)
> One simple way I could see to get around this problem would be this:
[snip]
Hmm. It nevertheless acts to divide gaming material into two camps -
editorials, reviews, derivative material of proprietary systems versus
OGL/D20. This does not feel like a good thing.
> > Do we have to include a copy of the OGL appended to every OGL article or
> > can we simply refer to a standard gold copy held on the server?
>
> My preference would be that you include a link to the OGL on every page
> containing Open Game Content. I don't think you need to include the full
> text of the OGL on every page containing OGC.
On the other hand, if we do include the full text in every article, it is
one way of making it clear that *we* consider each and every article to be
a separate and individual work. I think some meddling with our automated
content page generator is also in order to put more clear blue water
between the D20/OGC and everything else.
Regards,
Nicholas
Nicholas HM Caldwell
General Editor for The Guild Companion
http://www.guildcompanion.com/
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