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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MThibault" data-source="post: 765181" data-attributes="member: 7971">It is probably best to talk to your lawyer and WotC to get some more official oppinions.  It seems to me that this wouldn't be an additional limit to the OGC because the PI is protected indefinitely by the OGL anyway.  You are actually removing the limits on the  use of PI.Interesting approach.Practically, though, I'm not sure that it will make much difference.  You mentioned the short shelf-life of pdfs and single print-run products, but there won't be any competition during that short shelf-life anyway.  It takes the competition a few months just to get a pdf to market so you aren't too concerned with hedging out the competition.  You've already beat them to the market.The PI is protected for use in later products in the line, or to leverage a separate licensing deal for use of that PI.  In the former case, unless your business plan is clear at the outset and you know that you are going to stop supporting that product line (a campaign setting, for instance) after a certain date, then if it is worth protecting in the first place you probably want to hold onto it.  The latter case, if it is valuable enough that others will enter into a separate licence then, again, you probably don't want to open it up.This is a good idea, and one that publishers should probably put in their back pocket in case they need it, but I can't see it being used too much.Cheers</blockquote>

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