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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 2001763" data-attributes="member: 924">Well, in some cases, there can be trouble with the OGL. Because very few people use it correctly. You essentially have to rely on everyone knowing what they are doing.Say someone converted some Palladium stuff to d20, and made something like a "Juicer " or "Glitterboy" Class.  What if someone then picked it up and put in a netbook of d20 classes. And then a company decided to print a big book of classes and included the Juicer in it. Palladium would be able to sue that latter company, even though they didn't realize they were using someone else's IP.   And the company being sued could then sue the original person (or someone else down the chain) for doing the OGL wrong and it could potentially be a big mess. You might say that would never happen. But Mongoose did something similar with Fading Suns - they took the Noble Class from Fading Suns d20 (some text verbatim) and used it in Conan d20 but didn't credit Hollistic (the FS company) or Fading Suns d20 in the OGL.  Now if someone uses that class and only uses the Conan OGL, Holistic could sue someone for copyright infringement. Holistic won't, but they could.  Palladium doesn't want to be put ina  position like that, I think. Which is a bit paranoid (and he apparently confuses trademarks with copyrights, you can't use a copyright for not defending it if fans infringe, otherwise StarTrek would have been gone long ago, for the Star Trek fan fic), but somewhat understandable. OTOH, they are also a lawyer happy company, and tend to assume every other company is.  But in reality, most other companies don't care, even if it is copyright infringement, as long as people arne't making money off of it, they don't see it as worth their time.</blockquote>

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