<<Isn't the OGL the same sort of thing - one licence that allows you to access all of the OGC from all of the products mentioned in the section 15 - and therefore one licence that is issued from all of those copyright holders to you. Surely that makes all of the copyright holders people that you have accepted a licence from.
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Right, but each party can only sue for things that damage themselves. If I'm handing Green Ronin IP in a perfectly fine way, but botching the Mongoose IP then Mongoose is likely the only one who can sue me for damages immediately.
In the long run, if I end up producing improperly declared PI and OGC and get other people in trouble, everyone who used by materials could sue me if I open them up to any damages from Mongoose.
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Why would a "contributor" with no enforcement rights stay in a licence/contract? >>
Who said they had no enforcement rights? Not me. They just generally only have the enforcement rights over their own IP.
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The OGL doesn't specifically exclude any individual "contributor" from having enforcement rights or mention any sort of limit to what they can enforce.>>
Right, so contract law will govern this. And you have to have standing to sue.
In a typical multi-party contract between you, me, and my friend Mark, if I'm handling everything right that you are due but botching what I owe Mark, you can't sue me for Mark's recovery typically. Only Mark can sue me.
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Establishing damages is another issue, that I wasn't talking about. I'm specifically talking about revoking a licence due to non-compliance.
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But you aren't the copyright holder of someone else's work so you cannot revoke a license that party B gave to party C if you are party A.
<< I don't think that is a good example. How about this instead: You are walking towards your bank to pay back a loan and a mugger tries to rob you. Your bank manager sees this and calls the police to sort out the mugger.
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That is not an example at law. You can whistle blow on other parties to the contract, but that is different than having standing to revoke someone else's license.
Lee
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