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Realistically, I don't see how a 1.0b could be retroactively applied to a book published with the 1.0 or 1.0a licences. If the original publisher isn't around to re-publish those older books under 1.0b, the best legal defence we can hope for those books if WotC gets drunk like this again is...

As I already noted, a lot of content CAN'T be updated to use CC. Not all the publishers are still alive. Now, it's true we can't think of a reason right now why they might try again to revoke 1.0a. But this time last year, it was unimaginable that they'd be doing what they just tried. Our...

I see a future ten years from now, in which the 3PP market is split between ORC, CC, and OGL licences, and WotC chooses to somehow try to end the 1.0a licence. Only this time, because only a small fraction of the industry relies on the OGL, they face relatively little pushback. And this is the...

There are subtle but important differences between CC, OGL 1.0a, and a hypothetical "irrevocable text clearly added" 1.0b. Let's suppose for the sake of argument the entirely of the 5e, d20m, and 3.5e SRDs are released to CC. Any publisher that wants to publish under CC is limited to their own...

Exactly. We just spent the last couple of weeks training these ones. You don't call for someone to be fired immediately after making a big and successful effort of training them.

I think we still need to push for a new OGL, identical to the 1.0a, except to note that the licence is not merely perpetual but also irrevocable (by which we mean that it cannot be ended except by mutual agreement of all who use it). Although it is good that the 5.1 SRD (and hopefully others)...

Question for lawyers: What are the differences between that specific CC licence and the 1.0a OGL as it was?

You know, I'm not even sure it would require a patsy or collusion for WotC to create a lawsuit for the express purpose oof tearing down this licence at a time of their choosing. Part of this licence says that by using any material in this licence, you agree to it; in other words, you don't have...

The way the 1.2 draft is written, it could be taken as saying that if the issue is sufficient to revoke from one 3PP (or patsy), it could be taken as sufficient to revoke from all. The wording doesn't explicitly deny that potential.

If/when it chooses, what would prevent WotC from "sponsoring" a 3PP (or newbie developer; obviously, with the connection to WotC being sufficiently masked) to act as a helpful tool in developing a deliberately violating product for the specific purpose of enabling WotC to create a lawsuit that...

It's occurred to me that one possible reason a 3PP might reject this offer is that they aren't big enough to scale up effectively from selling 10-15 thousand units to selling 250k+ units. Even if it was a good deal in terms of profit per unit, if you can't make and distribute the product in a...

Sure, but if cost-per-unit accounts for 30% of the unit price (assuming printed books), losing 75% (DM Guild's 50%, plus another 25% for the 1.1 licence) means you are paying for the privilege of being in the industry; the more you print, the more you lose. You're not just paying an upfront...

"Kids today. They don't know they've been born." https://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/not+know+you+are+born.html Using English claims it is international usage. However, Google Ngrams suggests it is primarily British English. Earliest written record seems to be about 100 years ago. To...

Call the game Freed Ned.

I'd rather have a Teeth class than a Rowg class. No Whizzards please.

Those are literally already in this 1.1 draft as written. The licence can be yanked from you not only if your product fails the morality clause, but also if your personal behaviour (including committing 'petty crimes' such as jaywalking) breaks the law. On a more interesting note, helping a...

Story time. I used to run a small hotel before covid did a number on the tourism industry. I set my own prices, and largely controlled my own profits. My single biggest expense was commission to certain online travel agents (known as OTAs in the trade); this was typically 15-20% of the sale...

Realistically, One DnD could be a total flop that takes the entirety of WotC down with it. But Hasbro will live on. The worst case scenario is that D&D and all associated IP gets placed in Hasbro's vault of dead IP --- which is actually quite vast. Hasbro is well known to sit on a lot of dead IP...

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One of the key design goals for the OGL was to enable D&D to continue with a 3PP flag-bearer in the worst-case event that WotC went belly up or otherwise got caught up in entanglements (legal or otherwise) that prevented it from publishing. I'm not sure how that goal could have been met without...