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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 1901447" data-attributes="member: 1335">No, the winners do get a nice trophy, though. I assume the fee goes to pay the judges, the people handling all the submissions, and to pay for the cost of the book (and of course the trophies), but I can't actually speak for them. I think you're missing a pretty serious point. The main difference between this book and most others than use other people's OGC isn't payment, frankly, it's that we're asking first. Material gets reprinted and reused all the time in the d20 neck of the woods. You wouldn't, I hope, ask the same of Chris Pramas for Green Ronin's various collections of spells? Or Matt Sprang for Mongoose's collections of feats and prestige classes? Or anyone else who's used other people's work, like say, the SRD? (I certainly wouldn't.)If PI is your sticking point, don't submit anything with PI. Or don't submit anything with PI that you feel is important not appear in this book. Or, treat me like a person, or at least a fellow professional, and send me an email that says "I'd really like you to consider some material from X, but I really don't want you to use the PI in that book. Can we work something out?"It's not my intention to do anything with your material that you don't want done. That, I thought, would have been obvious from the fact that we're only only accepting submissions that people WANT to send. Lastly, regarding PI, we're only getting non-exclusive one-time rights--to be perfectly honest, it's just to make things simpler to review. If that bothers you (or anyone else), don't participate. You wouldn't expect Spectrum to not actually print the paintings they're honoring in their annual collections. And, like us, they don't gain any more than that one-time use of the work. Ultimately, we're putting out a book called "the Year's Best" as chosen by one of the system's creators. We're not hiding the author's names, we're celebrating them. We can't do that according to section 11 of the OGL without already jumping through some special hoops. So we can't just grab other people's OGC and be done with it, even if we wanted to. So we set things up like we did. We've giving out copies of the book and awards to those who are selected in lieu of nominal payment. If publishers want a chance to be a part of it, they can. If authors (who are not copyright holders) want to be a part of it, they should talk to their publishers.If not, that's fine too.We've already got some great publishers on board, so all selected material is sure to be in very good company.</blockquote>

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