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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8918062" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>I don't write intellectual property contracts for a living, but making rights specific happens every day. Like, if you get rights to make a book into a movie, you have rights to make a movie. You don't have rights to make a boardgame, or a videogame, or whatever. You just have the movie. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You seem to be confusing IP (intellectual property) with PI (product identity). PI is IP, but not all IP is PI. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No. Currently, they own, and have have copyright on, all of it. The OGL is allowing rights, but does not change ownership. That's kind of important.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If they aren't, what do you care if WotC reserves the rights? You're going to insist they allow rights you admit nobody's going to use? </p><p></p><p>But, just for the point - you've seen the recent Jumanji movies right? People playing a game are sucked into the game, and refer to the game mechanics. Jumanji didn't create that trope. </p><p></p><p>I can recommend the comic seiries/graphic novel <em>Die</em>, from Image Comics, written by Kieron Gillen - in which people from the real world are sucked into the magical world of their RPG, and refer to the game. The author wasn't referring to D&D - he created a fictional game for the purpose.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8918062, member: 177"] I don't write intellectual property contracts for a living, but making rights specific happens every day. Like, if you get rights to make a book into a movie, you have rights to make a movie. You don't have rights to make a boardgame, or a videogame, or whatever. You just have the movie. You seem to be confusing IP (intellectual property) with PI (product identity). PI is IP, but not all IP is PI. No. Currently, they own, and have have copyright on, all of it. The OGL is allowing rights, but does not change ownership. That's kind of important. If they aren't, what do you care if WotC reserves the rights? You're going to insist they allow rights you admit nobody's going to use? But, just for the point - you've seen the recent Jumanji movies right? People playing a game are sucked into the game, and refer to the game mechanics. Jumanji didn't create that trope. I can recommend the comic seiries/graphic novel [I]Die[/I], from Image Comics, written by Kieron Gillen - in which people from the real world are sucked into the magical world of their RPG, and refer to the game. The author wasn't referring to D&D - he created a fictional game for the purpose. [/QUOTE]
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