RE: [Ogf-l] d20 and Naked Licenses

[Kal Lin]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Alec A. Burkhardt wrote:

> Actually, straight copyright law would work the same way.  If I take
> something that is public domain and make a derivative work from it, that
> derivative work is now protected by my copyright.  You can go derive your
> own stuff from the same place I did, but you have no right to anything
> interesting I did with the work.

Completely agree.

They are free to exert copyright on their derivative work and
license that content under the OGL as they see fit.  

My point is they cannot prevent someone from using a public 
domain name to refer to a piece of open game content.




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