On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:06:54 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The third type of content is OUTSIDE the covered work, not INSIDE >> the covered work. Can a book contain 3 types of stuff: plain >> copyrighted, OGC, and PI? Sure. Will that book be "the covered >> work"? No. Some portion of the book (which itself could be >> defined as a stand-alone work) would be the covered work in that >> case, and the third type of content would be outside the scope of >> the license. > >> If you accept that reading, some extremely bizarre things can >> happen to some of the restrictions, prohibitions, etc. of the OGL >> _and_ the d20 STL. > > I'm confused again now. Don't the people that talk about > "closed content" define it as: > > "That part of the work in an OGLed document that isn't OGC or PI. > And is therefore not affected by the OGL (but is covered by > standard copyright law)." > > So isn't their infered definition (of the third type of content) > legally identical to Lee's?
The difference is that some of the license regulations cover everything in the work, while others don't, so if the standard copyright law material (closed content) is within the work, it would be subject to those elements of the OGL, but if it's not, then it wouldn't be. For example, if I wrote "The Big Book Of Boojums" for Publisher A, and he decided to PI the title, and I later write "A Player's Guide To Puddle-Jumping" for Publisher B, can I mention "The Big Book Of Boojums" in an About The Author sidebar in the puddle-jumping book without having to get a separate license from Publisher A? If the About The Author sidebar is in, say, an introduction that Publisher B decides neither to release as Open Content nor to declare PI, and it that means that it's then outside the Covered Work and so normal copyright law would hold sway, sure I could mention the book in a factual context. But if the About The Author material is closed content but that's still considered to be a part of the Covered Work, then I'd run into difficulties. Spike Y Jones _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
