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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 253826" data-attributes="member: 2013">*chuckles* Fair enough, Clark.&nbsp; There are those who would, if they could legally do so, repost everything immediately.&nbsp; I grant you that.&nbsp; I see your argument, even if I don't really agree with it - I happen to fall into the camp of &quot;look, even if someone DOES copy and repost our stuff verbatim, we did it first (when most of the sales occur) and we did it better (so most people who hear about it will want the original anyway) - so it won't really hurt our sales at all.&quot;&nbsp; This is all speculative and hypothetical, of course, but it would be interesting to see how much SSS stuff would have been lost to sales had you not done a little obfuscation and how much Bastion Press stuff has seen lost sales because they didn't.&nbsp; But since there is no method I know of to measure &quot;what we didn't sell,&quot; we'll have to leave that one to the philosophers LOL.I happen to disagree with that reading of the OGL, but that's because I interpret &quot;clear&quot; as &quot;not obfuscated&quot; (though I do grant you that it is perfectly fine by the rules to render it &quot;not that usable&quot; - though I think that this defeats the purpose of the OGL - which is to allow for cross-pollination).&nbsp; IOW, I disagree with one aspect of your reading, but as you mentioned, the OGL is not &quot;clear&quot; on &quot;clear&quot; so such disagreements are almost expected. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If it's an argument you're looking for, you won't find one here.&nbsp; At least not really.&nbsp; I am all for the wholesale redistribution of OGC without permission - after a &quot;waiting period&quot; from the first publication of the OGC in question (perhaps 5 years).&nbsp; But then, I am also against copyrights that last more than 14 years with a 14 year renewal because I am a strong believer in the public's right to receive things into the public domain in a timely fashion and feel that currently it is the public that is the victim of piracy of intellectual property that rightfully belongs to it (where the creator is dead, he need not profit) - but that's another rant entirely.--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 253826, member: 2013"] *chuckles* Fair enough, Clark. There are those who would, if they could legally do so, repost everything immediately. I grant you that. I see your argument, even if I don't really agree with it - I happen to fall into the camp of "look, even if someone DOES copy and repost our stuff verbatim, we did it first (when most of the sales occur) and we did it better (so most people who hear about it will want the original anyway) - so it won't really hurt our sales at all." This is all speculative and hypothetical, of course, but it would be interesting to see how much SSS stuff would have been lost to sales had you not done a little obfuscation and how much Bastion Press stuff has seen lost sales because they didn't. But since there is no method I know of to measure "what we didn't sell," we'll have to leave that one to the philosophers LOL. I happen to disagree with that reading of the OGL, but that's because I interpret "clear" as "not obfuscated" (though I do grant you that it is perfectly fine by the rules to render it "not that usable" - though I think that this defeats the purpose of the OGL - which is to allow for cross-pollination). IOW, I disagree with one aspect of your reading, but as you mentioned, the OGL is not "clear" on "clear" so such disagreements are almost expected. :) If it's an argument you're looking for, you won't find one here. At least not really. I am all for the wholesale redistribution of OGC without permission - after a "waiting period" from the first publication of the OGC in question (perhaps 5 years). But then, I am also against copyrights that last more than 14 years with a 14 year renewal because I am a strong believer in the public's right to receive things into the public domain in a timely fashion and feel that currently it is the public that is the victim of piracy of intellectual property that rightfully belongs to it (where the creator is dead, he need not profit) - but that's another rant entirely. --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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