>How bizarre. It seems to me that if the NPC is OGC, then why would any other
>company pay for something that's already freely available? That doesn't make
>any sense?
>
>I would think adding non-profit clauses to a contract such as that would be
>standard fare. No company would want to get caught in that. I mean, in this
>case you're fairly lucky since the work is OGC. What if the writer had
>contributed PI content, and then turned around and sold it to someone else?
>You'd have a sticky situation on your hands, and I wouldn't want to be in that
>writer's shoes. No, you are firmly within your rights to seek legal action
>against said writer. However, IANAL. :)
>
>Plus, if it were _me_, I'd find out who was trying to buy the NPC, and email
>them and tell them that they can have it for free through the normal licensing
>procedures as provided by the OGL/OGC. :)
but, who's to say that the author didn't get the OGC legitimately,
and re-use it, and find someone who's willing to pay her for said
OGC? that is, was the chain of creation:
A) author --> OGLed work --> OGLed work for profit (that just happens
to have the same author as the original)
or
B) author --> OGLed work
\
\--> for-profit work
'cause the former is certainly legal under the OGL, and i don't know
how, given the nature of the WOGL, you could forbid it. if you
really don't want people making money, even secondarily, off of your
work, the WOGL isn't a good choice. you could probably make it
nearly impossible to reuse the content by mixing in enough PIed
content, and then only granting licenses to it for not-for-profit
ventures, but it's no guarantee.
the completely open (that is, no closed content) OOGL might be a
slightly better bet, since it requires you to make the content
available for free digitally (which tends to scare off for-profit
companies--but not necessarily: look at Fudge). but, of course, that
twouldn't get you the D20SRD content, which is what you want.
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