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<blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4013898" data-attributes="member: 1054">There's no need for copyright or claiming IP.Did you read the STL? (Not the OGL, the STL)It specified many game terms and what they meant. In order to use the STL (the trademark license), your game could not change the meaning of a term. Here's an example:Here's the source: <a href="http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20Guidev5.rtf" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20Guidev5.rtf</a>Want to change what 'blinded' means in an STL product (a product with the D20 logo)? You couldn't. This has zip to do with copyright or IP and everything to do with being licensed to use a trademark, so please do not invoke copyright law here. It's not relevant.We do know the new &quot;O&quot;GL will be much more like the STL than the OGL. I see no reason not to believe similar &quot;This is what terms mean&quot; rules will be in it. I see no reason not to believe we will see something like:Ring:Rings are items which grant Paragon or Epic level powers. Only one ring may be worn by a Paragon-level character. Rings may not be used by Heroic level characters.They might not do this; they might. It certainly wouldn't be a major change from the way the 3x STL worked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lizard, post: 4013898, member: 1054"] There's no need for copyright or claiming IP. Did you read the STL? (Not the OGL, the STL) It specified many game terms and what they meant. In order to use the STL (the trademark license), your game could not change the meaning of a term. Here's an example: Here's the source: [url]http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20Guidev5.rtf[/url] Want to change what 'blinded' means in an STL product (a product with the D20 logo)? You couldn't. This has zip to do with copyright or IP and everything to do with being licensed to use a trademark, so please do not invoke copyright law here. It's not relevant. We do know the new "O"GL will be much more like the STL than the OGL. I see no reason not to believe similar "This is what terms mean" rules will be in it. I see no reason not to believe we will see something like: Ring:Rings are items which grant Paragon or Epic level powers. Only one ring may be worn by a Paragon-level character. Rings may not be used by Heroic level characters. They might not do this; they might. It certainly wouldn't be a major change from the way the 3x STL worked. [/QUOTE]

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