> Personally I like your products. But (from an OGL perspective) I liked your > earlier books much bettter. Your OGC labelling was precisely clear and use > and reuse of the material is extremely easy. But your later stuff uses an > OGC designation that makes it essentialy impossible to use. So much so that > it has occasioned more than one discussion on this list, with you guys held > up as an example of "what not to do." THAT's not because you made a > "mistake". You guys made a conscious decision to go from a very clear, very > easy OGC declaration to one that virtually ensures that people have to come > to you and get your permission to use *almost anything* from your books.
Covered this in a previous post. One thing I did not mention, and may be worth raising, is that we are by no means anti-OGC. In fact, I have a feeling that we are not only the biggest users of OGC (with the Ultimate series) but that we have produced more _new_ OGC than any other publisher. But no one has mentioned that :) > your reaction to it. Again, I don't know the details, but as we've been > given to understand it your reaction consisted of a single post to a single > board (out of literally hundreds of possible other venues). Maybe you could It was the most active of all possible venues - it was not as if we buried it on our own forums, which would have been a very easy thing to do. Also, this was all that was asked of us in the mail I first received. Now, Rebecca has come out of the blue for us on this list - I have had no contact with her other than what you chaps have seen here. > 1. Did you contact the Netbook Council and the wronged authors directly? No, the only contact I have had was with Maraneth, whom I presumed spoke for the whole group. > 2. Did you make up stickers or glue-ins to move existing product into > compliance? No, but it really won't make much difference at this time, given how many books remain. > 3. Did you notify your distributors that the product is not in compliance? Of course not. This is a publisher issue - they really won't care. > 4. Did you issue a general press release? There really is no such thing in this industry, despite the 'official' announcements some publishers make. I am guessing what is important is letting gamers and potentially other publishers know about the situation and, again, EN World is the best placed way of doing this. > 5. Did you update your web site to prominently correct the oversight and > give those authors credit for their work? I would if we had any control over the web site at this time - for technical reasons it is, to all intents and purposes, down at the moment, and has been for the past 3-4 weeks. > The fundamental reality is - and it is a harsh one - that until you correct > the situation to each an every wronged author's satisfaction you are > distributing (and profiting off of) a product that contains stolen material. > You have NO LICENSE to distribute that material. Rebecca _still_ hasn't told me what she actually wants us to do. I had been dealing with Maraneth before hand and was led to believe he spoke for all authors concerned. I did everything he asked, and I did it immediatly. Thus, I thought this situation _had_ been resolved to everyone's satisfaction. What I did _not_ get was any indication at all that this was not the case. All someone needs to do is talk to me. Or we can carry on hashing it out here with everyone putting their oar in and, I promise, very little will be resolved to anyone's satisfaction. Just send me a mail. That is all it takes. Matthew _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
