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The former.

There are orphaned works entangled in those ecosystems. So this is impossible. It's a nuclear wasteland at that point.

I'm not entirely sure if this is to our advantage. I'd personally much rather get sued as a consumer activist in Norway than having to go against WotC in the US state of Washington.

Nah. I don't live in a hellhole subjected to judicial capture by corporations. Jurisprudence here is largely consumer-friendly, and that license agreement is worldwide and contains no language concerning choice of law. Which, of course, is why they aren't likely to be suing me in the first...

I'm not going to accept new terms, nor do I want to go into business with Hasbro/Wizards going forward. The OGL 1.3 is of no interest to me. I'm asking about the OGL 1.0a. See this thread for reasons:

Exactly. It doesn't address the concerns Justin Alexander eloquently brings up in this Twitter thread. And these are my main concerns as well. I don't personally care so much about what they want to do going forward; I care about the cultural vandalism left in the wake of this illegal scheme. I...

Perhaps. They could have changed their mind, whatever. But there's this thing called estoppel. And that might be relevant here, wouldn't it? They've made public assurances that they considered the license to be irrevocable (and indeed not at all "de-authorizable", quite the opposite!). And...

I have no idea.

But they've taken the opposite point of view when some people accepted the license in the first place. Indeed, those assurances may have induced those parties to accept the terms. So WotC is either lying now, or they were lying then.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all you're really saying here is that WotC can freely stop circulating their SRDs and thus retract their offer to contract. This changes... nothing? We can yank the contents of their SRDs from someone else's work and incorporate it into our own. Indeed, any other...

So they claim: Open Game License v1.0a But implicit permission has to be assumed anyway. You can't comply with the license without copying the text.

Same here in Norway, it would have to be for illicit gain and cause a loss or a risk of a loss. But that's pretty much what's going on right now. Or at least, that's how WotC's conduct currently feels like to me.

I'm pretty sure that misrepresentation of law is criminal fraud in my jurisdiction, per statute.

It wouldn't be very usable for the purpose though. With OGL 1.0a, you can define the Product Identity and leave the rest as Open Game Content. Or you can do the opposite, more or less, and declare everything that's not already OGC as your PI. But with CC-BY, it's a nightmare. You'd more or less...

If they're actually lying about their belief in being able to "deauthorize" the OGL 1.0(a), that seems to me to be misrepresentation. And if that lie leads to someone signing a contract, I believe that's a tort? In a civil law jurisdiction, it might just be criminal fraud though, depending on...

That case is mostly about trademarks, not copyright.

There have been plenty of innovations in the TTRPG scene since the introduction of the OGL, they just haven't captured a large market share. And while it's true that most of the truly innovative stuff has been more experimental than the traditional rivals from the 90s, I don't really think...

They could release their entire back-catalog (trademarks included) under a CC license, and it still wouldn't really compensate for the damage it would do if they could somehow "deauthorize" the OGL 1.0a going forward. WotC's contribution to the Open Gaming Content out there is frankly minuscule...

I don't accept the new terms. I don't have to either. There's no mechanism to "deauthorize" any previous version. It's the other way around, see: FAQ: Open Game License

They could release their entire back-catalog of everything under a CC license (trademarks and all), and it would still wreak havoc on the OGL 1.0a ecology if they could somehow "deauthorize" that license going forward in return. WotC's contribution to the body of Open Gaming Content out there is...