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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5358883" data-attributes="member: 40166">The OGL on D&D gives us a lot of that for the earliest RPG books. I don't think any non-D&D books really have people lusting after the rules; Empire of the Petal Throne surely doesn't, and even early Traveller is mostly Traveller world, not rules.It's funny how little can block reuse; D20 Traveller makes Vargr OGL, and my first response was "Cool!" and my second response was "How useless". The name Vargr is protected, and I can make a wolfman species standing on my head; without invoking the Vargr name, it doesn't help at all.Currently, works published prior to 1978, in the US, will leave copyright 95 years from publication (rounding up); 1/1/2072 for works published in 1977. Works published 1978 or later (or whenever in the EU) get 70 years from the death of the author (or 95 years if they're works for hire, at least in the US) which means works not-for-hire of Gary Gygax will leave copyright on 1/1/2079. Canada and a few other places are a bit more generous at life+50, which 1/1/2059.Given all that, I have no hesitation that there will be reprints available, given the current trend of scanning everything, and the very low cost of making it available. But I strongly suspect that it will be like the 1789 American Cookery that I own; an interesting piece of history, but not something actually used for the purpose it was written for.</blockquote>