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Message: <blockquote data-quote="!DWolf" data-source="post: 8907477" data-attributes="member: 7026314">I  am not a lawyer but reading this as a lay person, this is what I would be afraid of: Suppose Hasbro wants to raise some quick cash, so it turns to the OGl 1.2.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They use section 7a to change the notice provision to the notice, registration, and royalty provision (headings are only used for reference according to 9f). You now have to register and pay 5% royalties.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Let’s say that you don’t like this and decide to fight in court. Well you’re on your own thanks to section 9e. Think you can go up against a massive company like Hasbro? Is the legal cost worth 5% of revenues?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Let’s say you scrap together the funds. Well, Hasbro comes up to you and goes: maybe you win and maybe you lose but we are going to screw you either way because if we win we will crank up the royalties to 200%, but if we lose we will use section 9d to stop the entire license and then sue you to stop you from selling products utilizing our IP. Is that really worth 5%?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">And if that doesn’t work, Hasbro has determined that depicting people being physically active is supporting  white supremacy (and they can support this assertion with some outraged videos on TilTok and a couple of articles from major news sources) and are terminating your licenses under 6f.</li> </ol>Edit: changed example in last item to make it something more realistic.</blockquote>

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