>Lewis Stoddart wrote: >> If it's clearly not OGC or PI, then it falls under standard >> copyright law, right? So essentially the best way to >> legitimately use citations is alongside, not within OGC. To >> have certain sections of a parsed or segregated document >> covered by standard copyright, and to include references and >> citations within those sections only. When it comes to others >> using the open content, they can use the citations similarly >> in their own work, because they are a point of fact: The feat >> "such and such" can be found on page xxx of "so and so" by WotC. > >It sounds like you are arguing that you don't have to follow section 7 >(PI & Trademarks) if the text in question is not OGC. A document >released under the OGL covers the entire document (and bundled works if >the courts find that they constitute a single product). Therefore, the >prohibition against using trademarks without permission applies even to >sections of text that are not marked as OGC. > >The reference to another book could be seen as implicitly claiming >compatibility.
and you're only forbidden from *using trademarks* [emphasis mine] to claim compatibility--most book titles, even in the RPG world, aren't trademarked or trademarkable. ditto for most nouns in RPGs (such as feat names). >It could also be using PI, which is prohibited in all >means. a book that is not released under the WotC OGL has *no* PI. PI is a construct of the WotC OGL, and has zero meaning or validity outside of its structure. there is no PI in, say, Song & Silence, just as there is no OGC. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webpages.charter.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
