At 11:56 AM 1/31/2003 +0000, Mike Dymond wrote:
Nowhere in the licence does it say that they are allowed to use your name! It says that they have to use but that in itself does not grant permission!In my amateur opinion, no. You cannot restrict me from using your name in section 15 because if you do, then I cannot comply with section 6. If I cannot comply with section 6, I cannot use your OGC. If I can't, no one can. If no one can use your OGC because of a restirction you have placed on the OGC, YOU cannot release it as OGC because you are violating the section 2 sentence: No other terms or conditions may be applied to any Open Game Content distributed using this License.
Would I be allowed to refuse permission for inclusion of my company name in section 15?
Thus, you cannot deny me the right to use your trademarks that you have placed into your section 15. You're doing so if an implicit grant of the right to reuse it.
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The way to stop people from abusing your Trademarks in the section 15 is to get people to start obeying section 6 more closely. Exact means exact. If all you are allowed to do is copy and add your own line, you could not do much with section 15 that would make it seem like you are doing a joint work. As it is now I'd be more worried about people adding commentary like "Special thanks to our good friends at Green Ronin for [name of book][copyright]" or something like that.
Hopefully Wizards will once again come down hard on violators this Gen Con. (Though it would be nice if they acted more frequently, I understand why they cannot.)
Joe
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