RE: [WW] Pilots? Pretty please?

["Robbie Corbett" <robbie@duotronics.com>]

Surely the section on pilot creation in *Death from Above* is Product
Identity (PI) to Pinnacle's game Weird Wars system, it's certainly not
part of the d20 OGL?

Ideas cannot be copyrighted you say? True. But if I am to copy the
section of the book and send it to someone verbatim (in ASCII or
whatever), then that is 'text that is copyright' and I am behaving
illegally?

I'm not trying to be argumentative (honest), just clarify the issue.

Robbie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net 
> [mailto:owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of lizard
> Sent: 05 March 2002 17:30
> To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [WW] Pilots? Pretty please?
> 
> 
> Ole Ingvar Stene wrote:
> 
> >>The ideas laid out in the d20 rule set is Open License, the words 
> >>contained in any d20 product are copyright the owner - in this case 
> >>Pinnacle.
> 
> 
> I don't know who said this, but it's wrong.
> 
> Any material designated as open gaming content may be freely copied, 
> modified, distributed, resold, or otherwise used as desired, provided 
> such use also follows the terms of the OGL. It is 100% legal 
> for me to 
> scan and OCR any material designated as OGC and post the 
> resulting scans 
> (NOT a PDF scan, but a scan which converts the page into 
> ASCII text -- 
> important difference!) to any forum I wish, provided I 
> include a copy of 
> the Open Gaming License and update the "Section 15" copyright section.
> 
> Ideas cannot be copyrighted, so there's no such thing as a 
> 'license' to 
> ideas -- that would be a meaningless farce. The value of the 
> OGL is that 
> you can freely reuse the EXACT TEXT of any material released as Open 
> Gaming Content.
> 
> This does not apply to material designated Product Identity, 
> which may 
> be intermixed with OGC text. Be sure to edit any text to 
> remove any PI 
> before reusing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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