In a message dated 09/10/2001 11:57:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> An quick work around this is just to have the author give all copyright
> to the company. That way he has no rights to his own work until after it
is
> released as open content. At that point it is fair game under the ogl. He
> doesn't suddenly get back the rights to the work.
Yeah but that's the problem. The OGL will give affiliates of BWR more rights
than they are supposed to have. For example, I am a both a writer and a board
member for BWR. If we design an RPG then I may not take that work and go
start a for profit company with it. However, if it later becomes open
content, then I could. That would be really bad. I would very much love to
be wrong about the OGL providing this kind of loophole in the structure of
the NPO, but I think it does, so I have to correct it somehow.
Maggie
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