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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4843325" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)</p><p></p><p>Sure, such lawsuits exist and are used, but you have to have <em>some</em> basis for the suit. At the very least, you have to have a coherent allegation of wrongdoing - you must be able to state what the defendant did and why it was illegal to do it. You can't just haul a guy up in front of a judge and say, "He done me wrong." </p><p></p><p>In this case, you'd have to have a clause in the OGL that you could accuse the defendant of violating, and be able to explain how you claim the defendant violated it. (Not necessarily <em>prove</em> the violation, that's what the trial is for, but you do have to be able to <em>say</em> what the violation was. And I'm fairly sure there are measures available to the defendant to counter claims which are patently false, e.g., you say a book contains a direct transcript of the Mind Flayer entry in the 3E Monster Manual, the defendant can produce the respective books and show that there is no such transcript.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4843325, member: 58197"] (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.) Sure, such lawsuits exist and are used, but you have to have [I]some[/I] basis for the suit. At the very least, you have to have a coherent allegation of wrongdoing - you must be able to state what the defendant did and why it was illegal to do it. You can't just haul a guy up in front of a judge and say, "He done me wrong." In this case, you'd have to have a clause in the OGL that you could accuse the defendant of violating, and be able to explain how you claim the defendant violated it. (Not necessarily [I]prove[/I] the violation, that's what the trial is for, but you do have to be able to [I]say[/I] what the violation was. And I'm fairly sure there are measures available to the defendant to counter claims which are patently false, e.g., you say a book contains a direct transcript of the Mind Flayer entry in the 3E Monster Manual, the defendant can produce the respective books and show that there is no such transcript.) [/QUOTE]
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