RE: [Open_Gaming] Some license updates

[Brad Thompson]

> Alec A. Burkhardt
>
> Adding the clause to the OGL does not prevent people from using trademarks
> without permission anymore than the current trademark law does.  Why?
> Because even under the OGL, the only one able to bring suit for trademark
> infringement would be the trademark holder.  They could do this with or
> without the proposed clause.  The clause simply gives them a stronger case
> when they get to court.

No, this clause also allows any copyright holder of material from which the
document may have been derived to sue for breach of the OGL in the event a
trademark is used improperly.

Further, if they can bring a suit with or without the clause, then the
clause does not do its job of reducing the legal entanglements associated
with the OGL.

-Brad

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