--snip-- -- The OGL published in the magazine (pg 17) only references the OGL and SRD copyright. Since you're supposed to copy the copyright section (#15) exactly and then add your own copyright notice, one could easily say that you could use any OGC in the article without crediting anyone at all. --
I'd wager you still need to credit the author by name and the source (d20 Annual 2001 or whatever it's called. Don't have mine in front of me.) --snip-- -- However, the copyright notices in these boxes are, at best, vague and noncompliant, and at worst, nonexistent. -- As I believe has been stated before, WotC has no need to comply with the OGL. They wrote the license and can do whatever they please with their own stuff. -- There's nothing in the OGL about copying copyright information from anywhere but Section 15, the copyright in these OGC Trackers is meaningless for OGC purposes. -- Perhaps, but "6.Notice of License Copyright: You must update the COPYRIGHT NOTICE portion of this License to include the exact text of the COPYRIGHT NOTICE of any Open Game Content You are copying, modifying or distributing, and You must add the title, the copyright date, and the copyright holder's name to the COPYRIGHT NOTICE of any original Open Game Content you Distribute." -- I think Wizards definitely made an error here. They either incorrectly took OGC from other works and violated their own license, or they licensed that material directly from people and did them a grave disservice when republishing it (or possibly made a breach of Authority to Contribute, since if they licensed it that probably didn't include the right open it without proper credit), or maybe there's some other term for it, I suppose they could have licensed or bought every article individually, including the right to redistribute and Open it without credit, though that seems quite unlikely. But I don't see many other scenarios in which this magazine could be a compliant piece of Open Gaming material. Granted the magazine format is new territory, but you'd think if anyone would find a non-loophole and 100% compliant way, it would be Wizards. -- I didn't see anything put in the magazine without credit. As far as I remember, all the articles had a "by" line. As far as compliance, if WotC thinks they are in compliance with their own original work, then they are. It really is that simple. The OGC Tracker boxes are farily clear, although that is a relative state, on what is OGC. As far as not breaking the rules on giving proper credit, ..."add the title, the copyright date, and the copyright holder's name to the COPYRIGHT NOTICE of any original Open Game Content you Distribute..." and you should be fine. Chad D. Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
