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>[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alec A. Burkhardt
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 5:28 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [Ogf-l] Fans and the OGL
>
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Rogers Cadenhead wrote:
>
>> At 03:29 PM 11/29/2001 -0500, "Martin L. Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >Actually, there is NO official WotC policy as of now. The former
>Internet
>> >Policy disappeared from their Web site right around the time the OGL
was
>> >released. Despite my frequent searches for it, I have never found it
>> >again -- particularly not at the link provided on the OGF site.
>>
>> The Internet Policy was last published at this now-inactive URL:
>>
>> http://www.wizards.com/Corporate_Info/TSR_Online_Policy.html
>>
>> The Internet Archive at http://web.archive.org has several copies of
the
>> page at different times. The May 1999 copy is available here:
>>
>>
>http://web.archive.org/web/19990503100702/http://www.wizards.com/Corpor
ate_
>Info/TSR_Online_Policy.html
>
>I think Martin was trying to say that since the Wizards websites no
longer
>carry this policy it's not clear if Wizards still has such a policy.
The
>internet policy has always been something Wizards has been free to
change
>at their whim - they have no obligation to continue to allow such
>violations of copyright to continue forever. Now they also aren't
likely
>to drum up the bad publicy of an internet crackdown at the moment. But
>they could certainly start encouraging fan sites to move toward OGL
>compliance. And no longer publishing the internet policy would be one
way
>of mildly encouraging that.
>
>alec
>
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I'm not a publisher, but when I first saw the OGL articles and heard
about WoTC opening up the under pinning of 3rd Edition, I thought this
was a great thing. Obviously the OGL is a good thing for publishers; you
guys get to make money off of it. For us hobbyists out here, we can
finally put material out there that is legitimized by WoTC. My biggest
fear here is that some of the terms of the license are hard to
understand and some of the fans out there could still wind up in hot
water if they aren't careful. It's a big step forward though.
Dallas
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