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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8873055" data-attributes="member: 93631"><p>I should have responded to this at the same time, but I screwed it up. I don't think the royalty will be based on "profit." I don't care how well you run your business.</p><p></p><p>When the OGL was originally drafted, I doubt anyone anticipated Kickstarter--let alone $2MM campaigns. So if I'm wearing the suit, I want some protection for what you're not anticipating <em>this time</em>. What other opportunities is our IP going to create on the way to $1 billion that you're trying to license away for free again? You don't know, so let's do it my way this time.</p><p></p><p>Then we could get into even more speculative territory. Like, is the OGL and SRD (as they have existed up to now) viewed as an encumbrance on the brand? Follow the above line of thought and imagine that our suit has indeed turned D&D into a $1 billion brand, and now Hasbro wants to sell it. Does it matter to its value that there's a free license out there to OneD&D and other businesses are making millions of dollars off it? Probably, though I couldn't even guess at how much (and neither can anyone currently at Hasbro). What if you could eliminate (or at least mediate) that encumbrance and turn it into a passive revenue stream with a simple royalty structure?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 8873055, member: 93631"] I should have responded to this at the same time, but I screwed it up. I don't think the royalty will be based on "profit." I don't care how well you run your business. When the OGL was originally drafted, I doubt anyone anticipated Kickstarter--let alone $2MM campaigns. So if I'm wearing the suit, I want some protection for what you're not anticipating [I]this time[/I]. What other opportunities is our IP going to create on the way to $1 billion that you're trying to license away for free again? You don't know, so let's do it my way this time. Then we could get into even more speculative territory. Like, is the OGL and SRD (as they have existed up to now) viewed as an encumbrance on the brand? Follow the above line of thought and imagine that our suit has indeed turned D&D into a $1 billion brand, and now Hasbro wants to sell it. Does it matter to its value that there's a free license out there to OneD&D and other businesses are making millions of dollars off it? Probably, though I couldn't even guess at how much (and neither can anyone currently at Hasbro). What if you could eliminate (or at least mediate) that encumbrance and turn it into a passive revenue stream with a simple royalty structure? [/QUOTE]
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