OGL 1.1... quote the lawyers (and link)

[Morrus]

If you know of somebody who is (or at least claims to be) a lawyer who has commented on the new OGL v1.1., put it in this thread.

If you are a lawyer, feel free to comment.

Hello, I am lawyer with a PSA: almost everyone is wrong about the OGL and SRD. Clearing up confusion.

Hello, community. Like many of you, I am a nerd. I am also a lawyer. With all the OGL controversy, I have been seeing a lot of claims on the internet, here and elsewhere, about what the OGL is and how it interacts with third party content and copyright law. Many of these claims are, in my...

www.enworld.org

 

[darjr]

Note there is a rumor of a letter to/from WotC lawyers about this floating around.

 

[Xethreau]

There is the Rules Lawyer on the 6e GSL in general

 

[Xethreau]

There is also this rumor / hearsay thing expressed in another thread.

My good friend is an IP lawyer. He opines that the old OGL will hold because of this, among other reasons: contra proferentem

And that's helpful because the good-faith reading of "authorized" means "a liscence version produced by a WotC approved partner."

 

[Greg K]

They talk to a lawer about WOTC revoking/disauthorizing OGL 1.0a and states numerous items stacked against WOTC legally doing so. However, he also cites a federal statute (?) that would allow WOTC to do so in another 12 years (i.e. 35 years after releasing the license).

 

[Xethreau]

Wow that's a long video! In the interest of the community, can we get a summary?

 

[Greg K]

Wow that's a long video! In the interest of the community, can we get a summary?

Unfortunately, someone else will have to do so (Long Covid issues prevent me from doing it). I think he covers most everything in the first 15 minutes.

 

[Greg Benage]

Wow that's a long video! In the interest of the community, can we get a summary?

The legal case for revocability of 1.0a is weak, it would ultimately have to be decided in court, WotC can bully.

 

[Haplo781]

 

[Xethreau]

This is amazing! I feel so seen right now.