On 12/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a reason why a simple work-for-hire agreement wouldn't meetall of the author's needs in this instance?
The right to be credited as the author of the work is an important one
that the OGL handles poorly but that work-for-hire negate
I'm wondering if anyone has developed a contract that explicitly deals
with the issue of the author's work being released under the OGL by the
publisher.
When I write for Behemoth3, I want the kinds of rights I enjoy if I'm
writing fiction under a SFWA model contract. If most or all of what I
writ
Highmoon Media Productions wrote:
Personally I have a mind to simply ignore the PI declaration as it
applies to these terms, which have obviously been in use before the
Slaine comic or the game, but I wanted to ask for thoughts on the matter.
Given that you've provided alternate spellings or
Interesting idea. One way to approach it would be to declare your key
elements as Product Identity, and include a limited license granting the user
the ability to use these PI elements in their work providing that:
1) they identify these PI elements as belonging to your system
2) they r
Green Ronin's _Advanced Bestiary_ (2004) doesn't declare PI at all, as
far as I can see. The title is identified as a trademark.
Chapters 1 and 2 are declared as Open Game Content; the book consists
entirely of these two chapters, plus a lawyer's page, a table of
contents, an appendix of chal
Thanks to everyone who's provided referrals and assistance, both on- and
off-list. Much appreciated!
- Tavis
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consultation by phone & correspondence would be OK too.
Thanks!
- Tavis Allison
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I think, again, that most people in the industry
feel that PI prohibitions refer only to usage internally in an
OGL-covered work. Not everyone is in agreement on the "in conjunction
with" prohibition. Search the archives for "press releases" to see all
the crap that was stirred up over some
Now that the first reviews of the Masters and Minions series
are coming in, I'm hoping to get advice about valid uses of reviews in
marketing/promoting a product, given that the reviews contain
trademarks owned by other companies. For the d20 STL, this issue seems
relatively clear from the d20S
I often notice the following text on the lawyer's page of OGL
publications, whether or not they also use the d20STL:
"[This work is] produced
and distributed under version 1.0a of the Open Game License and draft versions
of the System Reference Document by permission of Wizards of
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Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Draft of limited license to use PI for citation
of OCG
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Tavis Allison wrote:> Behemoth3,
Inc. enthusiastically supports the open source licensing> movement, and
In June I started a thread about developing a limited license
to facilitate citation of the source in which OGC originally appeared;
I'm now ready to include such a license in Behemoth3's first two
books, and would appreciate feedback and comments from the list. The first part
is a pr
On Friday, June 18, 2004 2:09 PM, Spike Y Jones wrote:
>The longer the exact text you require someone to reproduce under
your>limited license, the less likely he is to go to the
effort>merely for a "thank you" citation (especially if he wants to
cite>work from a large number of differe
ission-to-cite in
Behemoth3's releases, so if the list can come up with a reasonably sound release
or limited license, it's guaranteed to have at least one user!
- Tavis
Tavis
Allison
Director Behemoth3
Editor
7;ve inappropriately posted messages that were meant to be off-list;
all the same, I'll be unsubscribing until I have my email client under
control.
Yours,
Tavis
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From: Tavis Allison
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 10:00 PM
S
Ian -
As a fellow newbie, I must say that
this list is a scary place for people who haven't digested a ton of Open Gaming
License theory. It's best used for very specific questions about open content,
PI, legal issues, etc.
You'll find that folks at the Forge
are much friendli
"Staggeringly bad idea" ought to be enough for me to talk my fellow
Behemoths out of using the d20 license for Masters and Minions.
However, I think it's possible
that others might benefit from carrying the idea further, especially
since bad ideas are often the most instructive.
Let's assum
Tavis Allison wrote:
Bruce -
*snip
In trying to fix one beach of netiquette, I've obviously committed a
much graver one. I hope the list, and especially Bruce, will acept my
sincerest apologies--no one whose computer is within reach of a
two-year-old should have allowed email to be
ion.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l . I did
recently switch email clients, however, so that seems like a likely culprit.
Thans for your help, as always!
- Tavis
Bruce Baugh wrote:
On May 23, 2004, at 5:40 PM, Tavis Allison wrote:
*snip*
By the way, if you've set replies to be anything but just to
What are the implications of publishing two editions of a work,
one of which would use the d20 license and the other of which would
use only the OGL? Assume that both works share the same title, are released by
the same company, contain similar material, and are in print and on sale
s
around here long enough to
become jaded by it, and to being able to put some of these interesting ideas
into practice.
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Editor in Chief, Masters and Minions
www.behemoth3.com
Weird, hairy, mutated, stubborn, and obsessive; business expertise and
audience insight are optional
ctory to the axiom that
OGC sells books, and I'm willing to stake my own (relatively tiny)
investment as a publisher on the proposition that making OGC freely and
easily available will increase its ability to sell PI as long as the OGC and
PI are appropriately designated and the link between th
At 4/26/2004 00:12:22 -0400, Joe
Mucchiello wrote:There are a few problems with this line of
reasoning. First, if they really wanted to
drive sales of UA they would attach text to the d20 license
allowing users to use the UA trademark. That
they haven't done this indicates that
the meta-license and the OGL.
In the OGL-only work, the ashmalkin appears on page 24. On page 1, there is
a Section 15 declaration that Masters and Minions is copyright 2004,
Behemoth3, authors Tavis Allison, Nat Sims, and Brian Stith. (My intent here
is not self-promotion, but to avoid confusing the
y on defining the goals but also on developing a way
that a meta-license could be used to implement those goals.
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Tavis Allison
www.behemoth3.com
Information wants to be free. Money is not the most interesting form of
information.
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