> Ryan S. Dancey
> "The trademark Snakemen of Blahblah may be used with permission in any
> product using Open Game Content licensed using the Open Gaming License,
> provided that a notation is made somewhere in the product that
> includes this
> statement of permission and indicates that the trademark Snakemen of
> Blahblah is owned by Kal Lin Enterprises Inc."
Except that this statement makes no distinction between open and closed
content, and using "Snakemen of Blahblah" in open content, as you pointed
out earlier, allows anyone to use that trademark in any way they see fit so
long as they use the Open Gaming License, which as you also pointed out can
theoretically be used for more than games. Further, any user of the OGL can
now say that they have used the trademark with permission, which has very
different implications than using them without permission.
> Not a very onerous requirement.
This is not a realistic statement of permission. My lawyer would break my
fingers if I tried to sign something like this (and he would, too, he's kind
old-school about such things).
-Brad
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