Aren't you really just talking about plagarism and/or using someone
else's work without their permission which would be bad even without the
OGL's influence?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, the question becomes, without you intervening (and acting as
Anne's agent producing an OGL covered work), can Anne, by herself,
declare something as PI even though she's not a user of the OGL and,
as a result, have standing in a U.S. court (or foreign court since
she's overseas) to sue for a breach of her PI. Consider this --
consider that quoting a sentence from on of Anne's books is Fair Use.
PI trumps fair use contractually and explicitly (in the no
compatibility declarations section, for instance). If Anne can,
without being a party to the OGL, PI all her books, including every
sentence in them, then if you quote a sentence from her books and
attribute it to her as flavor text she could sue for damages and
relief under the license even though she's not a party to it. That's
the logical conclusion that must be drawn from your claims here.
That's why I asked if people thought that the PI declaration section
is so broad that it allows for anyone, anywhere in the world to
declare PI. If it does, and if that is binding on ALL parties to the
OGL, then that means there's a giant growing cesspool of PI to which
we are all bound, even if we've never read the PI declaration and even
if we aren't listing the work declared as PI in our section 15. If
that's the case, the license may eventually become either unusable or
practically unenforceable.
Lee
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