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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8906372" data-attributes="member: 19857">I think you're missing a key point, which is that in order to use the OGL you have to accept the OGL. And that allows you to use Wizards copyright. But you can go ahead and make your fantasy movie without using the OGL at all and use lots of stuff that's in that SRD because Wizards does not actually own the concepts, just the expression of those concepts.You can't use one of Wizards stories - that would get you into trouble because you'd be infringing on their copyright. So your movie can't be an adaptation of the Rise of Tiamat adventure path because you'd be stepping into copyright infringement. But you can write a fantasy movie where a group of hardscrabble heroes work to prevent a dragon cult from summoning their dragon-demon goddess into the world because you can't copyright a generic plotline like that (which is how Hollywood stays in business). If Wizards really controlled things to the level you think they do the recent Willow TV series would be getting Disney sued by Wizards. It's quite simply the most D&D bit of entertainment I've seen in a long time. But it won't and Wizards wouldn't even think of it because the D&D of it is just generic fantasy tropes and public domain monsters wrapped up into a coherent form. Like the SRD.</blockquote>