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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6276411" data-attributes="member: 2067">Ah, so Samsung's Galaxy phone is a completely original product and not at all using the information from the surprisingly similar iPhone?And your pizza joint, they're doing their own pizza R&D, and not slapping cheese and sauce on dough like everyone else?And they all run their own militaries, have their own road construction crews, and mint their own currencies, I'm sure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Open markets are built on shared, public resources. The only question is how shared. Copyright is a special carve-out of the law that exists to try and encourage useful arts -- a limited monopoly over how public those resources you develop can be. That's a special law created in opposition to the free market, to try and grant people limited monopolies under the idea that such a thing is overall better for the countries that have IP laws (typically because it lowers the barrier to entry in creating value, adding more competition to the market).The OGL makes the market more open by creating a clear safe harbor. This doesn't truck in brand name -- there is no ability in the OGL to use WotC's copyrights or brand identity. Merely some mechanics. Which aren't IP or copyright of anyone anyway. I think you'll find this actually quite a contentious statement. Neat, then! I'm glad there's at least been dialogue. Like I said above, it's probably smart of WotC not to say anything until they have something concrete to say, so I bet if it's happening, it'll come as a surprise to a lot of folks. A pleasant one in my case! And, I'd wager, a pleasant one in the case of WotC's bottom-line, but that's me being evangelical. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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