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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="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8900070" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>The entire way the OGL 1.1 is structured, together with the focus on royalties, the nature of the writing about the IP ownership and so on.</p><p></p><p>Further the incentives offered in the term sheet which was sent to people alongside the OGL 1.1.</p><p></p><p>Absolutely.</p><p></p><p>But they had choices about what to fall back on and how far to fall back.</p><p></p><p>And they chose to abandon the royalties and the IP ownership stuff, which weren't the focus of the most ire. In fact a lot of people seemed to (hilariously) think the royalties were appropriate (because 25% of revenue when the usual profit margin is more like 10% is totally fine lol).</p><p></p><p>Also, they have be even more stupid than we've been discussing, under your theory, because as pointed out by Legal Eagle and others, driving 3PPs away from the OGL will not drive them away from making 5E compatible products. It'll just ensure they're making them outside the OGL. So I guess I think WotC are idiots, and you think idiot is far too generous?</p><p></p><p>On top of that, it's basically a conspiracy theory/4D chess, and history shows 95% of things people thought were "4D chess" were actually just someone screwing up or getting lucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8900070, member: 18"] The entire way the OGL 1.1 is structured, together with the focus on royalties, the nature of the writing about the IP ownership and so on. Further the incentives offered in the term sheet which was sent to people alongside the OGL 1.1. Absolutely. But they had choices about what to fall back on and how far to fall back. And they chose to abandon the royalties and the IP ownership stuff, which weren't the focus of the most ire. In fact a lot of people seemed to (hilariously) think the royalties were appropriate (because 25% of revenue when the usual profit margin is more like 10% is totally fine lol). Also, they have be even more stupid than we've been discussing, under your theory, because as pointed out by Legal Eagle and others, driving 3PPs away from the OGL will not drive them away from making 5E compatible products. It'll just ensure they're making them outside the OGL. So I guess I think WotC are idiots, and you think idiot is far too generous? On top of that, it's basically a conspiracy theory/4D chess, and history shows 95% of things people thought were "4D chess" were actually just someone screwing up or getting lucky. [/QUOTE]
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