On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Michael Cortez wrote: > >> >> #6, someone using that OGC, must use the Copyright > >> >> specified with the OGC. > > >> Except they could argue that the general copyright notice for > >> the entire product (which you included in the general s.15) > >> is the copyright notice for the entire product and therefore > >> just including that meets the requirements of the OGL. > > The counter arguement is, "I never owned the copyright of specific piece of > OGC, it was licensed to me via the OGL (or via 3rd party license)" -- hence, > I could not possibly have been able to claim copyright over it with my > general product copyright.
That works for re-users or netbooks maybe, but not for Clark's example. The actual copyright holder for each & every creature is the same in the Tome of Horrors. What changes is the specific author and who did the original work on which the new work is based. Add in the fact the individual entries have never appeared elsewhere so they don't legally have a copyright outside of the copyright on Tome of Horrors and I don't think you could actually do something to anyone who didn't bother with specific copyright notices but did include the copyright notice for the entire book. alec _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
