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  • From: Rob Myers <rob AT robmyers.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Use of derivatives by original author.
  • Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:52:50 +0100

On 25 Sep 2005, at 19:36, longdead wrote:
Rob Myers wrote:
The only circumstances I can see this working in would be something
like Start Trek fan fiction where fans would be happy to be "paid in
canon", that is by having their work made part of the official story
universe.

Close, it is for a Role Playing Game book/project.

This would be a similar setup to the Paranoia rewrite, but with an explicit license. Paranoia was open but not free. I think Boing Boing had a link to an article on this.

One where I would
like the option to print contributions up along with my own original
material and sell the print books.

WotC reprinted work in Monster Manual 2 that had been OGL-licensed but that they paid for proprietary rights for. This is less easy than building such use into the license, admittedly, but it makes the license less intimidating.

And one where I would want to avoid
the possibility of having the game/game world hijacked commercially by
another person or company.

I do suggest you look at the OGL and its "Product Identity" mechanism, or, failing that, trademark the game title and major names.

As long as no one was using it commercially,
I wouldn't care much what they did with it, as long as it was properly
attributed.

NC-SA does this, it just doesn't give you automatic proprietary rights. You could negotiate these as WotC did with MM2 but that might be a pain for multiply-derived work.

Good luck with your project!

- Rob.




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