A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

For a while there, it looked like Hasbro and its Wizards of the Coast label were about to destroy more than two decades of goodwill from fans, but the company is making some significant moves to ...

No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download. The announcement was made Thursday by Kyle Brink, executive ...

A clear path to publish your TRPG materials with the new ruleset is coming April 22 under a Creative Commons license. As of April 22, 2025, the new SRD 5.2 will go into effect. The post shared by the ...

Between February and April 2022, a professional photographer from Cologne, Germany, filed nine copyright infringement lawsuits in U.S. federal courts. What makes the cases unique is that in each one, ...

Dungeons and Dragons just released a new draft for its Open Game License for One D&D. The OGL 1.2 draft was released as a part of Dungeons and Dragons’ response to controversy surrounding the future ...

The move will have the company license pre-built Business Mashups in hopes of spurring adoption of a forthcoming commercially hosted service Serena Software is licensing its Business Mashups software ...

Rules covered under the proposed OGL 1.2 include specific classes, spells, and monsters, meaning that creators who want to create a D&D compatible class for instance or new monsters compatible with ...

Creative Commons is planning to issue a major update to its suite of licenses next year. Some topics of discussion include harmonizing with database rights and ending regional ports in favor of ...

In its continuing efforts to experiment with new ways of handling its content, the BBC has started producing a monthly technology program that it will make available ...

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