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That Wizards chose a CC-BY license for its SRD, with no stake in downstream works, was laudable. It may deserve more credit for that.
That its competitors don't is their right. Copyright properly protects creators and their works. We should not begrudge them for it.
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What platform was his post on; Mastodon?
It's interesting when a content creator or company decides to make their works public domain or open source.
We build off what has gone before, standing on the shoulders of giants.
And, alike downstream sharing can accelerate things for a community.
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The business folks did a lot of talking back then. The license spoke for itself.
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Lol. Irrevocable wasn't a word that was used as much in licenses as it has since. But, not only did ye olde deal not say that it wasn't irrevocable, it also had other provisions that implicitly suggested it was not. For example, the use of the word "authorized". Anyhoo, yeah. Water under the bridge.
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imo, A re-education and marketing campaign would've been a better first move. It was a 20 year old license. And, it didn't say what ppl thought it said.
And, it didn't help that the business folks marketed it as something it was not, even back then.
#TINLA
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Yeah, I agree. Although, aside from NDAs' 2 usual problems... They also don't work if the other side doesn't stick to its word. I don't want to say it was bad faith, but the deal copy that we saw was still a draft, was still negotiable. (Even if, it was presented mostly as if it was not.)
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That's the attempted back room deals. Bad move. Amateur hour. Education first. It was never irrevocable.
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😂 Oh hey, that's funny. Me too. I do IP stuff generally, including licensing and some game stuff. Love the space.
Tho, some takes, reactionary business, and bad faith get stale.
Cairn is awesome. Just got my 2e Warden's Guide today.
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I still believe the licensing changes their team was advancing were pretty business standard. If only they hadn't fumbled the roll-out. 20/20 hindsight, but if they'd skipped the attempted backroom deals & run an education campaign first, we'd all be perfectly happy with OGL 1.2.307a by now
#TINLA
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GUMSHOE is pretty open, I think... Both OGL and CC 3, take your pick, iirc. I recommended it to a friend, recently, for a ttrpg adaptation we might do for a comic book property he has.
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... the doctrines of laches and acquiescence may make it harder to later object when word gets out about mass takedowns (by YouTube, #DarringtonPress, or its successor in interest) in the future.
#dpcgl
* Not legal advice.
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And, is that anti-competitive / anti-trust behavior? Maybe better to revise / fix the DP #CGL than deal with such questions. Ergo, section 11. <Shrug>
Also, if content creators don't stand up against this provision or any perceived inequality at this time...
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Deplatforming is de rigueur.
And, if they won't enforce against YouTube, but they enforce against anyone else... Well, that could suggest they effectively have a different agreement for YouTube's streaming service than with any independent streamers...
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They #share and make money off your videos, regardless of whether you intend them for commentary or whatever. So, your #thumbnail must be license-compliant if only to cover YouTube's a$s. Else, they'll readily jump to it, should they ever receive a #takedown request. Nobody needs to sue anyone.
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Leaving this here: Is the "YouTube algorithm" AI... ?
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+ On "The Dungeon As A Mythic Underworld" (13 Oct 2022) by Trent Smith
mystical-trash-heap.blogspot.com/2022/10/on-d...
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Me neither
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No worries. Looks like the restitution was a court assessed thing, after the court maybe held the MTG cards as evidence for 2 years.
I suppose, we could look and see if the other accused guy has plead out now.
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^ All, just imo. While I'm a lawyer, the foregoing is not legal advice.
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… was assessed by the court. The plea deal provided for $542 to be paid to Alan Hochman, $27,141 to Wizards, and for the cards to be returned (!) to Wizards.
I'm imagining if $195k+ worth of my cards was held by a court for 2 years… A smaller company coulda had a hard time. Restitution order ✅
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The journalist didn't get back to me…
But, I tracked down the 3-page sentencing decision against Thomas J. Dunbar from 8 May 2025, as a result of his plea deal. You can download it from here too:
public.courts.in.gov/mycase/#/vw/...
It indicates that non-interest bearing principal of $27,683…
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Do you have a spare character ready?
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I have reached out to the journalist via #xwitter for the court who made the sentencing decision and/or a copy of the decision.
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A key part of subject article's title was truncated: "… But A Nonprofit's Researchers Just Built a Copyright-Respecting Dataset"
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Here is a non-paywall version:
web.archive.org/web/20250514...
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Forgot to say... Marcel Proust!
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The original: "On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement."
-- From 'The Sweet Cheat Gone' (1925), Vol. 6 of 'In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past'
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If you come across a non-paywall version, I'm interested to read more about this fellow who's taking his chances at trial... ?
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Indystar paywall?
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9. The test of police efficiency is the absence of disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with it.
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… repression by military force / severe punishment […]
5. Police seek and preserve public favour by readily offering service and friendship to all members of society without regard to wealth or social standing, and by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour […]
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Just stumbled across this old Reddit post of mine, where Dungeons was more of an afterthought...
www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/etFj...
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I see @enworldrpg.bsky.social spelled "principle" this way too, at least in the below-linked article's associated image... Maybe it's about a new ethical approach afterall. <Shrug> 🙂
bsky.app/profile/enwo...