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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8878194" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I suspect that if these rumours are founded in reality, WotC as it currently is don't intend to use the powers they're claiming on a routine basis. They look like a nuclear option, to ensure future WotC has an option to shut down, for instance '5e RAHOWA' from using the OGL, or to nip in the bud any future attempts at Pathfindering should an OGL-based competitor start to become a genuine threat to WotC.</p><p></p><p>However, that doesn't make them any less of a threat. Corporate intentions can change over time, after all, and any 3pp accepting a licence under the rumoured terms would be basically allowing WotC to switch off their livelihood at a whim.</p><p></p><p>As for the class action - again, IANAL but I doubt it. You can only bring a court case against concrete actions, can't you? The most likely course of events would be something like, I guess, a 3pp publishing something yuk (the aforementioned RAHOWA 5e, for example), WotC lawyering up to kill the project, the 3pp ignoring the cease and desist (or whatever), and the whole thing heading courtwards from there. So most likely WotC would be the plaintiff and the 3pp would be the defendant. While I'm no expert, it's pretty hard to see, for instance, Kobold Press and MCDM and Green Ronin and Necromancer etc etc all voluntarily putting their own heads on the block to side with the defendant in a case like this. I'm not sure how you'd construct standing for an alliance of 3pp to proactively issue a class action against WotC. You'd need to demonstrate loss first.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8878194, member: 5948"] I suspect that if these rumours are founded in reality, WotC as it currently is don't intend to use the powers they're claiming on a routine basis. They look like a nuclear option, to ensure future WotC has an option to shut down, for instance '5e RAHOWA' from using the OGL, or to nip in the bud any future attempts at Pathfindering should an OGL-based competitor start to become a genuine threat to WotC. However, that doesn't make them any less of a threat. Corporate intentions can change over time, after all, and any 3pp accepting a licence under the rumoured terms would be basically allowing WotC to switch off their livelihood at a whim. As for the class action - again, IANAL but I doubt it. You can only bring a court case against concrete actions, can't you? The most likely course of events would be something like, I guess, a 3pp publishing something yuk (the aforementioned RAHOWA 5e, for example), WotC lawyering up to kill the project, the 3pp ignoring the cease and desist (or whatever), and the whole thing heading courtwards from there. So most likely WotC would be the plaintiff and the 3pp would be the defendant. While I'm no expert, it's pretty hard to see, for instance, Kobold Press and MCDM and Green Ronin and Necromancer etc etc all voluntarily putting their own heads on the block to side with the defendant in a case like this. I'm not sure how you'd construct standing for an alliance of 3pp to proactively issue a class action against WotC. You'd need to demonstrate loss first. [/QUOTE]
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