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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8484507" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>spending an hour to review a product to ensure it's not including anything problematic is much different than hiring freelancers or using full staff to write and design the product. Heck, they wouldn't even have to to that. They could license out to someone who already has a portfolio, and see if any of that portfolio work has any issues before licensing. I.e., they could look at publishers like Pundit, Venger, LaNasa and clearly see how they wouldn't align with current WotC vision, and look at others (start with the red companies on that infamous list lol) and have more comfort in just doing a license and that's it; no more work on their side. </p><p></p><p>Companies license out IP all the time without paying those users of the license. It's the other way around. They're doing it right now. When you use DM's Guild (or the OGL in general), you are using a license. DMsGuild gives them a cut IIRC (but I could be mistaken). They aren't paying the creators extra to put their licensed material on DMsGuild, they are taking a cut from it.</p><p></p><p>The TSR logos aren't really being used by WoTC outside of DMsGuild and DTRPG for legacy products. It's not that unreasonable for them to license out the logos to others since they've already shown they are amicable ot licenses, and it would be an extra cut to them without them having to do any extra work, just like DMsGuild does now. Just determine the terms for the license.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8484507, member: 15700"] spending an hour to review a product to ensure it's not including anything problematic is much different than hiring freelancers or using full staff to write and design the product. Heck, they wouldn't even have to to that. They could license out to someone who already has a portfolio, and see if any of that portfolio work has any issues before licensing. I.e., they could look at publishers like Pundit, Venger, LaNasa and clearly see how they wouldn't align with current WotC vision, and look at others (start with the red companies on that infamous list lol) and have more comfort in just doing a license and that's it; no more work on their side. Companies license out IP all the time without paying those users of the license. It's the other way around. They're doing it right now. When you use DM's Guild (or the OGL in general), you are using a license. DMsGuild gives them a cut IIRC (but I could be mistaken). They aren't paying the creators extra to put their licensed material on DMsGuild, they are taking a cut from it. The TSR logos aren't really being used by WoTC outside of DMsGuild and DTRPG for legacy products. It's not that unreasonable for them to license out the logos to others since they've already shown they are amicable ot licenses, and it would be an extra cut to them without them having to do any extra work, just like DMsGuild does now. Just determine the terms for the license. [/QUOTE]
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