>> If you can just source a concept from the public >> domain then you can defeat any PI declaration for >> a concept.
You first have to find that concept in the public domain. If the only place you find that concept, is in a OGL work, and it doesn't exist anywhere else, then you can't use it. If it's already out in the public domain, from another non-OGL work, then there is no point in declaring it PI. >> such claims are granted by the OGL alone >> , simply because someone chooses to enact them Correct. By using the OGL to create a new work, derived from an existing work, you are choosing to enact the license -- and thus agreeing not to use the declared PI in your derivative work. You are still perfectly free to come along, outside of the OGL, and outside of it's safe harbor, and take those PIed concepts and use them any way you like. You just can't do it in a OGLed work. -- Mike C. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
