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<blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 3684121" data-attributes="member: 10913">Thanks a lot MerricB. I'd advise WotC to put more pressure on their lawyers, then. It seems to me like the layers simply don't have the inclination to come up with original solutions that will serve Wizard's interests in the site while maintaining its rights and safety. They just revert to the standard &quot;Don't say anything!&quot; legal advice, they don't care about the project's goals enough to come up with creative solutions. I refuse to believe there can be none.I seem to remember Ryan Dancey mentioning similar oposition to the OGL. I suspect its something in legal culture.As a suggestion, have the TOS say someting like &quot;Publishing on Gleemax bears no relevance to copyright issues. By posting here, you agree to not let the fact you posted here or the content of your posts here be any sort of factor in determining a copyright infringement case.&quot; This makes posting on Gleemax &quot;tanslucent&quot; to copyright issues. Wizards won't be more liable to being sued for copyright infringement by someone who posted a card on Gleemax, but won't be less liable for being sued for using your IP that you posted on your own site and on Gleemax. It will allow a publisher to talk about his product (in posts, not just on his page), a designer interested in protecting his creations could host copies outside of Gleemax that will serve as prior art, and so on.True. However, there is an official policy by WotC granting specific sites to use the title &quot;official&quot; and publish material based on specific settings. I know that birthright.net works under this license, and that athas.org is likewise official (leading to two official 3e Dark Sun settings - the net one, and the Dragon one...). I suspect Canonfire! does the same. That said, I don't believe Gleemax's TOS will restrict other licenses. It will merely provide a &quot;license&quot; to publish original content based on wizard's PI on Gleemax.I am, BTW, grateful and appreciative of WotC's support of official fan sites.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yair, post: 3684121, member: 10913"] Thanks a lot MerricB. I'd advise WotC to put more pressure on their lawyers, then. It seems to me like the layers simply don't have the inclination to come up with original solutions that will serve Wizard's interests in the site while maintaining its rights and safety. They just revert to the standard "Don't say anything!" legal advice, they don't care about the project's goals enough to come up with creative solutions. I refuse to believe there can be none. I seem to remember Ryan Dancey mentioning similar oposition to the OGL. I suspect its something in legal culture. As a suggestion, have the TOS say someting like "Publishing on Gleemax bears no relevance to copyright issues. By posting here, you agree to not let the fact you posted here or the content of your posts here be any sort of factor in determining a copyright infringement case." This makes posting on Gleemax "tanslucent" to copyright issues. Wizards won't be more liable to being sued for copyright infringement by someone who posted a card on Gleemax, but won't be [i]less[/i] liable for being sued for using your IP that you posted on your own site and on Gleemax. It will allow a publisher to talk about his product (in posts, not just on his page), a designer interested in protecting his creations could host copies outside of Gleemax that will serve as prior art, and so on. True. However, there is an official policy by WotC granting specific sites to use the title "official" and publish material based on specific settings. I know that birthright.net works under this license, and that athas.org is likewise official (leading to two official 3e Dark Sun settings - the net one, and the Dragon one...). I suspect Canonfire! does the same. That said, I don't believe Gleemax's TOS will restrict other licenses. It will merely provide a "license" to publish original content based on wizard's PI on Gleemax. I am, BTW, grateful and appreciative of WotC's support of official fan sites. [/QUOTE]

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