, especially because you are essentially licensing all rights to
use that content to the publisher.
Matthew Hector, Esq.
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9:52 AM
To: ogf-l
"What if I sell it but give all of the profits to charity? All of the gross
to charity?"
Doesn't matter. This a red herring question. At law, any
selling/distributing can be considered a commercial purpose, even if all
profits, etc. are disgorged to charity. Just sayin'.
Matt
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5 Aug 2005 12:30:43 -0500
"Matthew Hector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As far as the IP laws themselves are concerned, it would seem a lot
> of them are superseded by the OGL.
Yes, indeed. The OGL is a license that allows you to make use of some
copyrighted materi
" So you would agree with some of the posters of the last few days that
most public domain words can't be PIed (a position I agree with), but
you disagree about the possibility of PIing a name derivable from a
public domain source as it applies to a particular character? (That
is, since the word "S
" I dont think you are really getting tbe point and
might be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so
to speak. There are times when you create an NPC and
that NPC has a name that may derive from the public
domain. You can, and should always be allowed to, PI
the name of that NPC so long as doi
litigation.
So yeah, just my rather long-winded thoughts.
The short version: I think claiming public domain materials as PI is (or
should be) bunk. To CYA and generally avoid hassle, go with the alternate
spellings. Make sure that your descriptions of those same ideas aren&
