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OGL v1.2 Survey Feedback: 'Hasn't Hit The Mark'
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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8917609" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>"A. You agree that nothing prohibits Us from developing, distributing, selling, or promoting something that is</p><p>substantially similar to a Licensed Work.</p><p>B. You own the new and original content You create. <strong>You agree to give Us a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable,</strong></p><p><strong>worldwide, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to use that content for any purpose.</strong></p><p>C. For clarity, nothing contained in this Section impacts Your agreement that Our Licensed Content, Unlicensed Content,</p><p>and anything else You are not otherwise expressly authorized to use, under the terms of this agreement or any other</p><p>agreement, remains Our sole property."</p><p></p><p>If I signed 1.1 they literally had the right to take Paranormal Power in it's entirety, republish it as "The OneD&D Psionics Handbook" without paying me a red cent for my words and I would have had no legal recourse to challenge it based on the OGL 1.1 I agreed to.</p><p></p><p>In what world is that trustworthy or good? Like the fist clause, A, gave them coverage for doing something "Substantially Similar" and it being challenged in court... But clause B just gives them the outright right to use your work without paying for it.</p><p></p><p>That's not even getting into the fact that the OGL 1.0a is meant to be a perpetual evergreen document ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT, that WotC is now trying to weasel out of. Showing that they'll break a contract that was meant to be unbreakable if they like.</p><p></p><p>Let's say they release OGL 1.5a. And we sign it. And 3 months later go "Nah, now we're going to make 1.6a." and 6 months later "Here comes OGL 2.21, which means you have to work for us directly as an unpaid intern and all your creative works belong to us!"</p><p></p><p>Like... They're untrustworthy. There's no longer an understanding of good faith in their contracts if they're looking to break the contract they made to be unbreakable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8917609, member: 6796468"] "A. You agree that nothing prohibits Us from developing, distributing, selling, or promoting something that is substantially similar to a Licensed Work. B. You own the new and original content You create. [B]You agree to give Us a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to use that content for any purpose.[/B] C. For clarity, nothing contained in this Section impacts Your agreement that Our Licensed Content, Unlicensed Content, and anything else You are not otherwise expressly authorized to use, under the terms of this agreement or any other agreement, remains Our sole property." If I signed 1.1 they literally had the right to take Paranormal Power in it's entirety, republish it as "The OneD&D Psionics Handbook" without paying me a red cent for my words and I would have had no legal recourse to challenge it based on the OGL 1.1 I agreed to. In what world is that trustworthy or good? Like the fist clause, A, gave them coverage for doing something "Substantially Similar" and it being challenged in court... But clause B just gives them the outright right to use your work without paying for it. That's not even getting into the fact that the OGL 1.0a is meant to be a perpetual evergreen document ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE WHO WROTE IT, that WotC is now trying to weasel out of. Showing that they'll break a contract that was meant to be unbreakable if they like. Let's say they release OGL 1.5a. And we sign it. And 3 months later go "Nah, now we're going to make 1.6a." and 6 months later "Here comes OGL 2.21, which means you have to work for us directly as an unpaid intern and all your creative works belong to us!" Like... They're untrustworthy. There's no longer an understanding of good faith in their contracts if they're looking to break the contract they made to be unbreakable. [/QUOTE]
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