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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8908647" data-attributes="member: 2209">It is a big open vulnerability to people who sign on that is quite different from OGL 1.0 which has no such comparable risk for licensees.That depends entirely on WotC's interpretation of their IP rights and what infringes on it. How far their IP extends on elves is not a clear line.Probably, but it also shields them (to the extent threatened termination is leverage) from anyone licensing stuff under the OGL challenging them if they claim the licensee's non-OGL stuff is too close to licensed content under the OGL. So if WotC push their elves interpretation or whatever they could use a threat of immediate termination to get licensees to knuckle under on non-OGL stuff.It is another potential avenue for WotC to leverage control over licensees outside of the licensed products.I think it would be prudent to consider how things can potentially go under the licenses if there are changes of direction at WotC. They have been known to change their mind on licenses after all <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8908647, member: 2209"] It is a big open vulnerability to people who sign on that is quite different from OGL 1.0 which has no such comparable risk for licensees. That depends entirely on WotC's interpretation of their IP rights and what infringes on it. How far their IP extends on elves is not a clear line. Probably, but it also shields them (to the extent threatened termination is leverage) from anyone licensing stuff under the OGL challenging them if they claim the licensee's non-OGL stuff is too close to licensed content under the OGL. So if WotC push their elves interpretation or whatever they could use a threat of immediate termination to get licensees to knuckle under on non-OGL stuff. It is another potential avenue for WotC to leverage control over licensees outside of the licensed products. I think it would be prudent to consider how things can potentially go under the licenses if there are changes of direction at WotC. They have been known to change their mind on licenses after all :). [/QUOTE]

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