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<blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2808647" data-attributes="member: 4275"><p>Im all for contributing. Most of the books I've done contain a heavy amount of OGC and as far as I can tell, the designations we use are pretty clear cut (though I dont write those designations myself, Ive read them and pointed out what I think should and should not be open).</p><p></p><p>As for "continually making their own material", I fail to see how that's any kind of a problem. Again, if someone buys something written by me, I consider it my obligation to have most of the book be new material.</p><p></p><p>The concept of new material being bad smacks of Mike Mearls' recent comments about commercial PDFs somehow hindering "innovation", an argument I do not buy. </p><p></p><p>With all of that said, its unreasonable to expect someone to release enough material about that they cannot make money off their IP in the future out of a militant desire for all OGC to be free.</p><p></p><p>IP is more valuable than crunch because its the sort of thing a company can make money on time and again. A setting (as only one example) can be released under different systems, as a video game as a comic etc. </p><p></p><p>In other words what Im saying is there is a happy medium. No I do not think all OGC (or even most) should be crippled. But I do think companies releasing under the OGL have a right to protect enough of their ideas (including proper names) so that they can retain control.</p><p></p><p>In the early days of D&D for example, many writers turned their campaign worlds into successful Fantasy novel franchises. In the current environment with PDF publishing, its reasonable to see a circumstance where a writer would release his world under the OGL, then turn it into a fantasy novel series, and then wish to license it again to become a game.</p><p></p><p>If all the proper names are released as Open Content, he wouldn't really be able to do that.</p><p></p><p>Im not saying it's a LIKELY scenario, but it is one (I think) a game company would be unwise to ignore. </p><p></p><p>Chuck</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vigilance, post: 2808647, member: 4275"] Im all for contributing. Most of the books I've done contain a heavy amount of OGC and as far as I can tell, the designations we use are pretty clear cut (though I dont write those designations myself, Ive read them and pointed out what I think should and should not be open). As for "continually making their own material", I fail to see how that's any kind of a problem. Again, if someone buys something written by me, I consider it my obligation to have most of the book be new material. The concept of new material being bad smacks of Mike Mearls' recent comments about commercial PDFs somehow hindering "innovation", an argument I do not buy. With all of that said, its unreasonable to expect someone to release enough material about that they cannot make money off their IP in the future out of a militant desire for all OGC to be free. IP is more valuable than crunch because its the sort of thing a company can make money on time and again. A setting (as only one example) can be released under different systems, as a video game as a comic etc. In other words what Im saying is there is a happy medium. No I do not think all OGC (or even most) should be crippled. But I do think companies releasing under the OGL have a right to protect enough of their ideas (including proper names) so that they can retain control. In the early days of D&D for example, many writers turned their campaign worlds into successful Fantasy novel franchises. In the current environment with PDF publishing, its reasonable to see a circumstance where a writer would release his world under the OGL, then turn it into a fantasy novel series, and then wish to license it again to become a game. If all the proper names are released as Open Content, he wouldn't really be able to do that. Im not saying it's a LIKELY scenario, but it is one (I think) a game company would be unwise to ignore. Chuck [/QUOTE]
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