on 1/25/03 4:39 PM, Faustus von Goethe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Rebecca: > > If the oversight was Mongoose's (and not yours) both you and the wronged > authors have the option to send Mongoose a "notice to quit" asking them to > recall all of those products and / or compensate the authors who were > wronged. > > If the oversight was YOURS, each of the wronged authors has the right to do > the same (ask Mongoose to recall the product). Mongoose would then have the > right to ask YOU to pay for the cost of the recall.
I don't see how the oversight could have been our fault. We at the Netbook of Classes always include full copyright information in Section 15 of the OGL. All they had to do was copy it, as they obviously copied the classes. We were never informed by Mongoose that they intended to use any of the classes from the netbook, so we had no input as to how they handled proper credit. My first knowledge of this was when I was looking through the book to include the classes in the listing we do. I found the Artificer awfully familiar, as I should since I wrote it. Our team leader contacted Matt Sprange, after informing all the various authors involved, and Matt asked us what we wanted him to do. All we asked was that he make a public statement on a popular forum or on his website, to correct the omission. We specified listing the correct copyright information for the authors involved, and possibly also mentioning the Netbook of Classes as the original collection. We did not ask for a recall -- I for one understand the sort of expense that would mean and we wouldn't want to discourage other publishers from drawing upon the netbooks as a resource. All we wanted was proper credit. Simply listing uncredited authors, as though they were Mongoose Games employees, was singularly unsatisfying. Becky Glenn Netbook of Classes _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
