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<blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 2811105" data-attributes="member: 2477"><p>The thing is, in either case, Ars Magica or Mythic Heroes, it's not about intent, since either way the author/publisher in question would need be the one starting legal action. In either case, the publisher would appraise the work and see whether it was significantly different enough to ignore. As Wulf mentioned in the Publisher thread similar to this one, if your work is significant to him, he will pursue. I'm sure the Ars Magica team would likewise.</p><p></p><p>It comes down to an arbitrary decision as to whether your work is different enough. The OGL is meaningless in that respect. The real difference is whether the "writing style" can be protected as Product Identity. I think the OGL would give plenty of direction in this instance to indicate that PI is about names and other identifying constructs, rather than how the mechanics are presented.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Quite possibly there is a different tone, simply because a lot of folks regard crippled OGC as a bad thing. Ars Magica protecting their work (which is wholly created and maintained by them) is a bit different than BadAxe protecting theirs (which is built on other material free for their use to expand on).</p><p>The double standard is because the OGL which is meant to protect future authors as much, if not more, than the publisher of the material, is a sidenote to using Mythic Heroes material. It's not fair to Wulf, but it's not a situation someone pushed onto him, and he's a tough guy, so I'm sure he'll weather it fine. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I don't have Mythic Heroes, so I'm not sure how any of it applies to that product.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vocenoctum, post: 2811105, member: 2477"] The thing is, in either case, Ars Magica or Mythic Heroes, it's not about intent, since either way the author/publisher in question would need be the one starting legal action. In either case, the publisher would appraise the work and see whether it was significantly different enough to ignore. As Wulf mentioned in the Publisher thread similar to this one, if your work is significant to him, he will pursue. I'm sure the Ars Magica team would likewise. It comes down to an arbitrary decision as to whether your work is different enough. The OGL is meaningless in that respect. The real difference is whether the "writing style" can be protected as Product Identity. I think the OGL would give plenty of direction in this instance to indicate that PI is about names and other identifying constructs, rather than how the mechanics are presented. Quite possibly there is a different tone, simply because a lot of folks regard crippled OGC as a bad thing. Ars Magica protecting their work (which is wholly created and maintained by them) is a bit different than BadAxe protecting theirs (which is built on other material free for their use to expand on). The double standard is because the OGL which is meant to protect future authors as much, if not more, than the publisher of the material, is a sidenote to using Mythic Heroes material. It's not fair to Wulf, but it's not a situation someone pushed onto him, and he's a tough guy, so I'm sure he'll weather it fine. :) I don't have Mythic Heroes, so I'm not sure how any of it applies to that product. [/QUOTE]
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