The thing is, in the year or more since the first OGL products appeared, 
we've seen none of this. We haven't even seen people extracting and 
archiving OGL on the web. There's really very little economic incentive to 
release the same text someone else has already released, only several 
months later after everyone who is interested has bought the book, and from 
a publisher with no rep in a crowded field.

There's far more profit loss from good old fashioned asshol^h^h^h^h^h 
pirates who just scan and post entire books, OGLed or not. The feared flood 
of ripoff artists (acting within the letter of the OGL) never materialized.

And, of course, open means open. While, as far as I can tell, all sharing 
done thus far between publishers has been cordial, and by permission, it's 
neither unethical or illegal to simply copy what you want without informing 
the source that you're doing so. (Though, of course, it's a GOOD thing that 
there's cooperation between publishers!) In the future, as D20 publishers 
fail, there will be a lot of OGC whose publishers have vanished into the 
mists.

You can't have your Kate and Edith too, as the judge said to the bigamist. 
If you want the benefits of open content, you have to accept the risks.

(And, as a side note, OGL compliance has been so spotty that the odds are 
good anyone just ripping stuff off will have screwed up *somewhere*, 
leaving them vulneable. I'm still seeing some odd gaffes from reputable 
publishers. (One book I recently bought used someone else's OGC, thanked 
the original source in the introduction, and failed to include the 
copyright of the derived material in 'Paragraph 15'))

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