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<blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 4040208" data-attributes="member: 20239"><p>Well, IANAL, but my understanding is this... Once you were made aware of the mistake, you would have 30 days to correct it (probably by changing the relevant section of the OGL in the product and making some sort of public announcement). But note, that this would only apply if you were to redistribute the material pretty much verbatim. If you made a derivative work of public domain material and "added art" as defined by the license it would still be appropriate to label that material OGC if you wanted it to be OGC. I suppose if someone felt they had suffered a financial loss due to your mistake they might get damages, but that would be up to a court, it's not something that is really covered by the license.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As far as I can tell, your only responsibility in that instance would be to not list that particular material as OGC in any subsequent products or new print runs of the old product. If you were aware of others using that material in their products, I suspect you would bear some responsibility for informing them of the change in status. Ultimately, though, the person distributing a work under the license is responsible for making sure OGC and PI are attributed correctly in their product. So if the status changed and you made some effort to make knowledge of that change available, the responsibility would fall on the people using your OGC (now public domain) material rather than on you to attribute it correctly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ourph, post: 4040208, member: 20239"] Well, IANAL, but my understanding is this... Once you were made aware of the mistake, you would have 30 days to correct it (probably by changing the relevant section of the OGL in the product and making some sort of public announcement). But note, that this would only apply if you were to redistribute the material pretty much verbatim. If you made a derivative work of public domain material and "added art" as defined by the license it would still be appropriate to label that material OGC if you wanted it to be OGC. I suppose if someone felt they had suffered a financial loss due to your mistake they might get damages, but that would be up to a court, it's not something that is really covered by the license. As far as I can tell, your only responsibility in that instance would be to not list that particular material as OGC in any subsequent products or new print runs of the old product. If you were aware of others using that material in their products, I suspect you would bear some responsibility for informing them of the change in status. Ultimately, though, the person distributing a work under the license is responsible for making sure OGC and PI are attributed correctly in their product. So if the status changed and you made some effort to make knowledge of that change available, the responsibility would fall on the people using your OGC (now public domain) material rather than on you to attribute it correctly. [/QUOTE]
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