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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2418963" data-attributes="member: 463">Yes, although I would say &quot;might violate&quot; rather than &quot;would violate&quot;- and it would be less likely to violate the laws of countries other than the US because the US has the doctrine of &quot;derivative works&quot; which seems wider than equivalents in other jurisdictions.What I don't understand is what you have to do to comply with the OGL.&nbsp; I can see from the OGL that you don't have to release any of your own original work as OGC (contrary to what some people here have been saying), but I don't understand what you need to do to designate content from the SRD as OGC; how explicitly each bit of it needs to be detailed.&nbsp; Looking at the OGL OGC/PI designations in the products I own they seem to vary widely.&nbsp; It seems wholly impractical to parse the entire work line by line, none of the third-party products I have do that, but people here appear to be saying you need to do that?&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Although I am not a qualified practicing lawyer, I have spent the past 14 years studying contract &amp; IP law, I earn my living teaching it, and I am about as close to a copyright lawyer as Upper_Krust is likely to see.&nbsp; Even could he afford to visit some Belfast solicitor for legal advice the solicitor would only be able to advise him on United Kingdom/Northern Ireland contract law, not the intricacies of US IP law &amp; business practice.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our legal culture in the UK is still very different from the world Americans live in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 2418963, member: 463"] Yes, although I would say "might violate" rather than "would violate"- and it would be less likely to violate the laws of countries other than the US because the US has the doctrine of "derivative works" which seems wider than equivalents in other jurisdictions. What I don't understand is what you have to do to comply with the OGL. I can see from the OGL that you don't have to release any of your own original work as OGC (contrary to what some people here have been saying), but I don't understand what you need to do to designate content from the SRD as OGC; how explicitly each bit of it needs to be detailed. Looking at the OGL OGC/PI designations in the products I own they seem to vary widely. It seems wholly impractical to parse the entire work line by line, none of the third-party products I have do that, but people here appear to be saying you need to do that? :confused: Although I am not a qualified practicing lawyer, I have spent the past 14 years studying contract & IP law, I earn my living teaching it, and I am about as close to a copyright lawyer as Upper_Krust is likely to see. Even could he afford to visit some Belfast solicitor for legal advice the solicitor would only be able to advise him on United Kingdom/Northern Ireland contract law, not the intricacies of US IP law & business practice. Our legal culture in the UK is still very different from the world Americans live in. [/QUOTE]

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