{"id":30678,"date":"2023-01-13T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30678"},"modified":"2023-01-13T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:16:51","slug":"remember-game-designers-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/13\/remember-game-designers-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Game Designers&#8217; Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwilliams.info\/archive\/2023\/01\/dnd-situation-is-a-symptom-of-a-larger-problem-our-insanely-long-copyright-protection-life-of-the-author-70-years.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">has a story<\/a> about how Hasbro\/Wizards of the Coast\/TSR is <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/dungeons-dragons-ogl-announcement-wizards-of-the-coast-1849981365\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to screw people over with copyrights<\/a>, leading to Williams&#8217; rant about IP.<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, remember what TSR did to Game Designers&#8217; Workshop and Gary Gygax over <em>Dangerous Journeys<\/em> (Gygax talks about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithrobinson.me\/thekyngdoms\/interviews\/garygygax.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">way down in this interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/16\/the-dying-time-redux\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike<\/a>, another friend, and I met Gygax at GenCon when he was preparing to or had just settled the lawsuit, so we got to look at the court papers (which Gygax was carrying with him, I guess).  TSR was claiming copyright to things like dwarves, elves, and rolling dice.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not new that they&#8217;re playing IP games, especially now that they&#8217;re owned by bigger fish.  It&#8217;s that they&#8217;ve always wanted to be the stereotypical Microsoft-style or Google-kind of monopolistic power, but they&#8217;re niche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Williams has a story about how Hasbro\/Wizards of the Coast\/TSR is trying to screw people over with copyrights, leading to Williams&#8217; rant about IP. I, on the other hand, remember what TSR did to Game Designers&#8217; Workshop and Gary Gygax over Dangerous Journeys (Gygax talks about it way down in this interview. Mike, another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30680,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30678\/revisions\/30680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}