--- Sixten Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can you argue that methods such as: > - indicia at the bottom of each page that is OGC, > - bordered/patterned/shaded boxes around OGC, > - specialized type styles, or > - a list of chapters/page numbers/sections which are OGC > do not meet the license's requirement of "clear identification?" > > Or, to pick the most basic counterexample I can think of, how does this not > comply? > "The entire contents of this book, except for pages i - ix, and the inside > and outside covers, is Open Game Content."
All of these methods clearly state what "is" OGC. "this page", or "these pages" or "the section bordered in gray". All state what is OGC. Stating "everything that is based on Fred's 1957 Monster Movie is not OGC" does not do it. While it implies what is OGC, it is not the same thing as stating directly. If you are one of four people still alive who have any reckoning of, to continue the example, Fred's 1957 Monster Movie, then your declarion is not clear. You cannot have any way of knowing what your readers will know, so you have to tell them. "Everything in this book except page 13 is OGC." - that is OK, because you told them. "Everything on page 12 is not OGC" - that does not tell anybody what actually *is* OGC. THe license says tell them what *is*, so do it. Sure the child with the highlighter might figure it out, but that only protects your intellectual property if the judge for your case is a child with a highlighter. Mike Kletch... ...who is not a lawyer, but can read pretty durned well. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
