At 07:36 AM 4/23/2001 -0400, Kal Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My point is they cannot prevent someone from using a public
>domain name to refer to a piece of open game content.
How often is a publisher only going to declare a name as product identity,
though?
If I publish a catoblepas as product identity, no one else can copy my
stats and
description of the creature. They can derive their own catoblepas from the same
public domain sources I did, but they can't simply cut and paste from my work.
Getting back to the original point of this thread, if someone illegally
derives from
your copyrighted work, that doesn't give you permission to use their work. If I
write a Star Trek novel, Paramount has the right to block publication of my
book
and pursue remedies for copyright infringement, but they don't
automatically have
the right to publish my book.
I would expect the same to be true in OGL. If I publish a Freeport module
and declare
it 100 percent product identity, no one can make use of my copyrighted work
simply
by virtue of the fact that I'm in breach of the OGL.
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