While surfing the internet, I notice a ninja character class being offered as a preview to the upcoming Rokugan d20 Companion book by Alderac Entertainment Group (www.alderac.com). After downloading it and reading the class (I have to admit, while not great, the character class is pretty good), I read the legal section of this document.
Granted, this preview is probably considered closed content (still unsure why the license is there in the first place when Section 15 needed update). But I notice they introduce a term regarding "goodies" for AEG's PI, and AEG granting limit license use of their PI. [quote] LIMITED LICENSE FOR USE OF GOODIES AND PRODUCT IDENTITY (PI) IN GOODIES: Alderac Entertainment Group hereby grants other OGL publishers a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free limited license to use the goodies and the PI elements which appear in the spell names contained in this book in OGL publications. Use of PI elements is limited solely to using these PI elements in the goodies themselves and for no other use. For example, the feat name �Hida�s Technique� may be used to refer to the feat of the same name, even though �Hida� is PI of Alderac Entertainment Group. The name �Hida�, however, may not be used in any other way except where it appears as part of the feat name. Any publication making use of such goodies and PI elements in goodies must bear a legal notice that both 1) any such PI used is reserved Product Identity, and 2) goodies are copyright 2001, Alderac Entertainment Group, all rights reserved. [/quote] I want your educated opinion, is this a good thing (in legal and practical sense) for both third-party publishers and PI owner AEG? Granted, it is limited to spell name. Or am I just rambling for no good reason? _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
