Re: [Ogf-l] Re: [Open_Gaming] Product Identity question

[Justin Bacon]

Clark Peterson wrote:

> Because guess what, YOU DONT HAVE TO DESIGNATE ANY OF
> YOUR STUFF PI IF YOU DONT WANT TO. NO ONE DOES. IT IS
> UP TO THE CREATOR. IF YOU WANTED TO RELEASE EVERYTHING
> AS OPEN CONTENT YOU COULD. So where is the freedom
> constrained? You are "free" to open all your stuff up.
> And without the license the stuff people would make
> would be their copyrighted material that you couldnt
> use anyway. So what is constrained? Nothing!

You're confused, Clark. Without using the OGL I could easily write, in a
gaming product, "refer to page XX of the CREATURE COLLECTION, published
by SWORDS & SORCERY, for a description of monster YY". That's so far
within the boundaries of fair use its not even funny.

Justin Bacon
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