You don't... When you put something out as OGC and you created it yourself without looking at anyone elses stuff then when you release it you _know_ that you didn't steal it and by not putting anyone else's copyright down for section 15 you are declaring that you and only you made it.
Of course there are still publishers who don't update their own section 15 so who knows what they're saying ;-) Myself, I'm highly eclectic in my design and will look at a lot of people's things in my design. My section 15 tends to get rather huge because of that. If you want to keep it small and concise, I'd make sure you go closing all those other books up right now. -----Original Message----- From: Nate & Camille Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ogf-l] Section 15 question When using previousily published material that was designated as OGC you have to place a copyright notice in section 15 of work's copy of the OGL. But what if you have created something similar yet different? For example, I have seen three or four versions of a feat with the name Parry, that all function similar to one another. I myself had a similar feat. Is anyone in violation of each other or the OGL when this happens? What happens when a more obvious creation like that gets made by multiple publishers at the same time? How much attention do you have to pay to all of the game design out there, or are you able to ignore most of it and work off the SRD and just do your best to make the best original product you can or do you have to research everything made and credit similar works? _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
