on 4/17/01 9:45 PM, Will Hindmarch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The real problem comes when hobby material interacts with professional
> material.
As a publisher, I am leery about using fan-originated material under the
OGL. If I am buying rights with a contract, that contract includes a
paragraph wherein the seller warrants to me that it's his work he's selling
(and he'll suffer the consequences if he plagiarized it). On the other
hand, if a fan website writes up "The Dragon of Endor" and I don't realize
that the description includes vast verbatim passages out of A Wizard of
Earthsea, when I pick it up to use in an adventure--well, that could lead to
problems for me.
Even with the "safe harbor," there's a lot to be concerned about when
dealing with material that originates beyond the SRD.
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