On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:18:43PM -0500, Doug Meerschaert wrote: > Bryant Durrell wrote: > > >Sure. But to claim that people were meticulously seeking out permission > >in each case of magazine publication... and let's remember that the guy > >who asked the question which set this off is essentially talking about a > >/fanzine/. > > Fanzines tend to exist at the publisher's discretion. They _could_ sue > and shut them down, but don't.
Sure. My point being that, ignoring the greater issue of whether or not you think that rules systems can be copyrighted, WotC seems to have created a chilling effect that extends even to advice given to people who are operating at a level which has traditionally been given much more wiggle room. I also continue to think that Ryan is simply incorrect if he's really asserting that magazines have always routinely sought permission before publishing articles on a third party game system. For example, check out the matching payments info at http://www.sjgames.com/general/guidelines/writers/writers-guide-othermags.html. Note that there's no explicit license granted by that page, but more important, there's no indication that SJ Games is expecting notification before publication. They request notification after the article is published, and only for the sake of making a matching payment. It is possible that TSR pressured magazines to seek prior permission; I'm pretty sure Palladium strongly pressured for permission. But to characterize that as an industry-wide practice seems odd to me. -- Bryant Durrell [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell [] 9/11/2001 [----------------------------------------------------------------------------] ONCE, adv. Enough. -- Ambrose Bierce _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
