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Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.
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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8899279" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>I don't think this is an accurate description of the legal state of affairs. WotC has no power to change the terms of the OGL v 1.0/1.0a. It has a power to promulgate variations, and each licensee has the power to choose which of the variants they will use when they reproduce, copy or modify OGC.</p><p></p><p>In practical terms, what difference does it make?</p><p></p><p>There's been no actual example, from the first promulgation of the OGL up to now, of this ownership by WotC actually making a difference to anything. What hypothetical(s) are people envisaging?</p><p></p><p>Perhaps for clarity I need to add: some people seem to think the current furore has some connection, in legal terms, to section 9. But I've read just about every post i this thread, and I don't think I've seen any of the lawyer contributors try to make out such an argument. In my view, those who connect what is going on at the moment to section 9 are just wrong.</p><p></p><p>My reply to this is the same as to [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER]. Given that no issue (including the current one) has ever arisen in relation ship to WotC's ownership of the copyright in the OGL, or in relation to its authority under section 9 to promulgate variants, what practical difference does it make that under ORC a third party not-for-profit enjoys that right and that power?</p><p></p><p>This isn't true.</p><p></p><p>Nothing stops Paizo, in the future, insisting that its licensees under ORC agree to a new licence on less favourable terms, just as WotC is doing now. The issue of who owns the copyright to ORC has no relevance to that. (I mean, maybe it will preclude Paizo calling its proposed new licence ORC v 2 - but that doesn't seem to me to be of any great significance.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8899279, member: 42582"] I don't think this is an accurate description of the legal state of affairs. WotC has no power to change the terms of the OGL v 1.0/1.0a. It has a power to promulgate variations, and each licensee has the power to choose which of the variants they will use when they reproduce, copy or modify OGC. In practical terms, what difference does it make? There's been no actual example, from the first promulgation of the OGL up to now, of this ownership by WotC actually making a difference to anything. What hypothetical(s) are people envisaging? Perhaps for clarity I need to add: some people seem to think the current furore has some connection, in legal terms, to section 9. But I've read just about every post i this thread, and I don't think I've seen any of the lawyer contributors try to make out such an argument. In my view, those who connect what is going on at the moment to section 9 are just wrong. My reply to this is the same as to [USER=82106]@AbdulAlhazred[/USER]. Given that no issue (including the current one) has ever arisen in relation ship to WotC's ownership of the copyright in the OGL, or in relation to its authority under section 9 to promulgate variants, what practical difference does it make that under ORC a third party not-for-profit enjoys that right and that power? This isn't true. Nothing stops Paizo, in the future, insisting that its licensees under ORC agree to a new licence on less favourable terms, just as WotC is doing now. The issue of who owns the copyright to ORC has no relevance to that. (I mean, maybe it will preclude Paizo calling its proposed new licence ORC v 2 - but that doesn't seem to me to be of any great significance.) [/QUOTE]
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