> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Alec Burkhardt > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] d20 System Licence, v4.0 > > The book Joe Gamer now possess is an illegal product. > So yes, Joe Gamer can be forced to destroy a product > he has no right to possess. It's of course unlikely > that it would ever happen and unlikely to be worth the > effort for anyone to bother. In your example, Company > Y would probably just inform everyone they are aware > of having the book and then assume those people obeyed > the law and destroyed the property. Joe Gamer most > likely won't be destroying the book, but it's probably > not worth anyone's effort to follow up. (And if Joe > Gamer does destroy the book, they should probably do > so by sending it back to the publisher & getting their > money back.)
But we KNOW that Joe Gamer probably won't. The book just became a collector's item, and few gamers can resist those. So that raises the question: ten years from now, when Joe Gamer is hungry for cash and sells his collectibles, what laws/licenses did he just violate, and who has standing to take action? Martin L. Shoemaker Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com http://www.UMLBootCamp.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
