RE: [Open_Gaming] Mixed Works?

[Michael Cortez]

> > >So I *am* in breach if I use someone else's trademarks, 
> regardless of
> > >whether they've published OGC or not?
> >
> > Yep.
> 
> Which part of the OGL specifies that the use of any trademark 
> is a breach? If I
> have a character drinking a Pepsi(TM), have I breached the OGL?
> 

The limiting factor in the use of trademarks is section 7 of the OGL, which
prohibits the use of Product Identity, "...except as expressly licensed in
another, independent Agreement..." and the Definition of Product Identity in
Section 1, which includes "...and any other trademark or registered
trademark..."

This one has gone round, and round before, and ended in recommendations of
getting a lawyer to interpret it.

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Michael Cortez

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