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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 2808227" data-attributes="member: 94">That's my feeling on the matter, as well.I'm definitely a fan of principled stands, but you're bordering on being silly. Most of what you wanted to do anyway falls within the purview of fair use. You are certainly not alone among the consumer class who chooses to take a principled stand on &quot;abuses&quot; of the OGL.Regardless of the differing opinions here on how I might go about protecting the &quot;copy rights&quot; of the work, I've absolutely come around on the utility of my OGC declaration. I can certainly amend it easily enough, but this thread indicates pretty clearly to me that no amendment that doesn't include the right to copy and paste is going to satisfy some of you.There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who wanted to use and expand on the OGC in Mythic Heroes would be able to do so.That is the very essence of what I consider to be proper and responsible use of Open Content.That would be interesting, wouldn't it? By the same token, anyone could do the same thing with the SRD mechanics as the OGL allows them to do with it, and yet folks are not exactly scrambling to test WOTC in court over the matter. It would certainly make for an interesting test of the OGL in court. The SRD is a separate case for a great many reasons. I have used portions of it verbatim.As for other folks OGC, I use it all the time, and I make every effort to restate the material in my own voice whenever the expression of the mechanics allows me to do so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 2808227, member: 94"] That's my feeling on the matter, as well. I'm definitely a fan of principled stands, but you're bordering on being silly. Most of what you wanted to do anyway falls within the purview of fair use. You are certainly not alone among the consumer class who chooses to take a principled stand on "abuses" of the OGL. Regardless of the differing opinions here on how I might go about protecting the "copy rights" of the work, I've absolutely come around on the utility of my OGC declaration. I can certainly amend it easily enough, but this thread indicates pretty clearly to me that no amendment that doesn't include the right to copy and paste is going to satisfy some of you. There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who wanted to use and expand on the OGC in Mythic Heroes would be able to do so. That is the very essence of what I consider to be proper and responsible use of Open Content. That would be interesting, wouldn't it? By the same token, anyone could do the same thing with the SRD mechanics as the OGL allows them to do with it, and yet folks are not exactly scrambling to test WOTC in court over the matter. It would certainly make for an interesting test of the OGL in court. The SRD is a separate case for a great many reasons. I have used portions of it verbatim. As for other folks OGC, I use it all the time, and I make every effort to restate the material in my own voice whenever the expression of the mechanics allows me to do so. [/QUOTE]

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