Re: Legality and WotC help with 3rdEd SJ

Correct me if I get this wrong, but I think this works out to:
1) Only BtM (or WotC) can post or publish a product that is called 
"Spelljammer" that has "Hadozee", "Mind flayers / Illithids", "Beholders", 
and "Neogi" in it.  Other people can make OGC inspired by SJ so long as they 
do not mention Hadozee, Illithids, Neogi, or Beholders and properly give 
credit.  [all of the aberent evil races of SJ are limited to D&D, and the 
conversion of hadozee in Stormwrack limits them too]
2) conversions of the adventure modules, the locals in Practical Planetology 
and Space Lairs, or any of the ___space books must follow the conversion 
license (be non-sensible) or be officially authored by BtM.
-- this includes all references to what any groundling NPC or nation on the 
published core worlds knows, thinks, or has of SJ

Therefore: anybody that isn't BtM is allowed to write a d20 OGC that has 
rules for having magical sailing ships in space (travel, combat, etc.) with 
stats for Giff, Gromman, Dracon, Hurweati, Rastipedes, and the solitary 
monsters of space.
and Maybe package it with a home-brew setting with dwarves in flying 
mountains, goblinoids and other humaniods in hiding, a paramillitary / 
terrorist group of smart orcs, a space police force / ruling navy / army of 
goodness of elves, where some lizardfolk have intellegence.

Then BtM (or WotC) can take any such OGC they feel like, edit it, add in all 
the refernces to closed races and monsters, change the setting to match 
cannon, add some more legal text, and list the OGC and it's authors as 
contributers or an inspirational work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Static" <eshum@????????.org>
> Howdy,
>
>>> As for legality, BtM--as an official site--can post almost anything
>>> without bothering with the conversion license.
>>
>>What things should we avoid to prevent problems?
>
>    I should mention that even the official sites can't post direct
> copies of large chunks of text from real sources.  Under the official
> site umbrella, I've put up... well, everything that's up, without any
> problems.  One thing that definitely needs to be avoided is using
> WotC's trademarks in OGC.  Can't have a product called "Spelljammer"
> with an OGL in it, unless it's "published" by an official site.  The
> official sites can use WotC trademarks, to a degree.  (I think this
> means we can use other people's OGC in SJ products.)
>
>    I hope that made sense, and was useful.
>
> -Static
>
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