Intellectual Property Ownership of PI
Posted: Fri 01 Jan 2021, 03:06
Hello,
It's not clear to me what rights you retain/assign with respect to your OWN work when you publish under the Community Content Program. It says you retain copyright but then it says you've published under the Creative Content Program. Elsewhere, it says you may not publish certain things like fiction, sold separately. Supposing I create a setting, with its own characters/monsters: can I retain ownership of those creations or are others allowed to use them in their creative content program material? Can I use those characters/monsters elsewhere without restriction, assuming I do not reference Free League or its games? For example, publishing the same scenario but under the 5e OGL for 5e? Or writing a short story using those characters and self-publishing or publishing in a magazine?
Cheers,
Ansis
It's not clear to me what rights you retain/assign with respect to your OWN work when you publish under the Community Content Program. It says you retain copyright but then it says you've published under the Creative Content Program. Elsewhere, it says you may not publish certain things like fiction, sold separately. Supposing I create a setting, with its own characters/monsters: can I retain ownership of those creations or are others allowed to use them in their creative content program material? Can I use those characters/monsters elsewhere without restriction, assuming I do not reference Free League or its games? For example, publishing the same scenario but under the 5e OGL for 5e? Or writing a short story using those characters and self-publishing or publishing in a magazine?
Cheers,
Ansis