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WotC Talks OGL... Again! Draft Coming Jan 20th With Feedback Survey; v1 De-Auth Still On
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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8908233" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>The OGL makes a lot of D&D stuff fair game that wouldn’t unambiguously be otherwise, especially when presented together.</p><p></p><p> So, owlbears and magic Missile, paladins, and “sorcerers as naturally magic as opposed to wizardly magic you have to learn”, in the same movie, talking about the spell charm person is immoral or amoral, etc. Even if these aren’t copyrightable to trademarkable individually, without the OGL a reasonable case can be made that in combination they are blatantly ripping off D&D in a way that infringes on wotc’s IP. </p><p></p><p>I’d Wheel of Time was the next Game of Thrones, Amazon (with the Rigby estates permission) could just publish a game using the SRD as a shortcut and familiarity hack, to make a game that becomes competition for D&D , even just for a time. Or they could use all those elements i mentioned above to make a show and cash in on the rise of D&D ‘s popularity without having to pay wotc a dime because they don’t actually name it D&D, but there is a libertine half-elf Bard, a halfling thief rogue, a dwarven Paladin, an elven wizard, an orc ranger, a human fighter, and a Dragonborn Barbarian, and like…it could easily be awesome and make millions while wotc gets nothing from it. </p><p></p><p>Which is fine, IMO, because I don’t even believe that D&D should still be copyrightable almost 50 years after first publication, but obv wotc doesn’t like it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8908233, member: 6704184"] The OGL makes a lot of D&D stuff fair game that wouldn’t unambiguously be otherwise, especially when presented together. So, owlbears and magic Missile, paladins, and “sorcerers as naturally magic as opposed to wizardly magic you have to learn”, in the same movie, talking about the spell charm person is immoral or amoral, etc. Even if these aren’t copyrightable to trademarkable individually, without the OGL a reasonable case can be made that in combination they are blatantly ripping off D&D in a way that infringes on wotc’s IP. I’d Wheel of Time was the next Game of Thrones, Amazon (with the Rigby estates permission) could just publish a game using the SRD as a shortcut and familiarity hack, to make a game that becomes competition for D&D , even just for a time. Or they could use all those elements i mentioned above to make a show and cash in on the rise of D&D ‘s popularity without having to pay wotc a dime because they don’t actually name it D&D, but there is a libertine half-elf Bard, a halfling thief rogue, a dwarven Paladin, an elven wizard, an orc ranger, a human fighter, and a Dragonborn Barbarian, and like…it could easily be awesome and make millions while wotc gets nothing from it. Which is fine, IMO, because I don’t even believe that D&D should still be copyrightable almost 50 years after first publication, but obv wotc doesn’t like it. [/QUOTE]
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