Two Jaded Gamer entries in one day. Damn.
Once again John Tarnowski (aka RPGPundit and a bunch of other names) proves once again that he is nothing but a liar. This time it's all about somebody else wanting to limit the use of their own IP that they created. Yeah you read that right Tarnowski doesn't think other people should be in control of their own creations... well except for him controlling his most likely.
Anyways.
It started with Stuart Robertson adjusting the creative commons agreement for use of the OSR logo he created. Basically restricting it from use on products with hate speech, encouraging violence, etc. Here is his post on G+:
ATTENTION OSR MEMBERS
He lines out what he means rather clearly. Most of this was in reaction to Venger Satanis being a dick like usual and making fun of trans people with his VS post or some such. Anyways Stuart wanted to adjust the usage of the logo which is well within his rights as the creator.
Now Tarnowski comes off the fucking rails in that discussion many times. Then over on his forums he makes this claim:
"Stuart Robertson, the inventor of one of the more-common known OSR logos, has decided that he's going to threaten legal action on anyone using the Logo with politics he doesn't like."
Which is completely NOT what Stuart said nor implied.
So yet once again, the screaming yelling shitbag John Tarnowski proves once again that he is a fucking liar.
Happily, if I stay out of Pundit's forum I very seldom hear about him and his nonsense. He's been relegated to just yelling into his toilet these days.
ReplyDelete"Anyways Stuart wanted to adjust the usage of the logo which is well within his rights as the creator."
ReplyDeleteNo it's actually not. Once you've put something in to the creative commons, their is no changing the license. The license under which you filed the creative commons is irrevocable, legally speaking.
Likewise he simply has no way to legally pick and choose who can & cannot use his creative commons work, nor put any other stipulations on how the work is used, beyond the six standard creative commons licenses.
Legally speaking Stuart doesn't have a legal leg to stand on, he doesn't even have the ability to revoke the license, take his ball & go home.