Dungeon Lore VII: Hasbro and the OGL controversy [S3F7]

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In this week's Flashlight, we talk about intellectual property, resolve to go to law school, and finally earn that explicit rating. You can tell that we record a few weeks in advance, because we joke about WotC's next bad decision but we don't know about the DNDBeyond debacle yet. Jake gets into economic theory. Reilly's mic might just be a cursed artifact. Spoiler warning for Fountainhead? Also, we're not actually sponsored by Microsoft.

Dennis mentioned the OGL controversy last week, so go listen to the interview if you'd like to hear another perspective on the whole situation. Also, here's a book by Reilly's professor that looks pretty cool.

Here are some links that we used in research for the episode.

• Here’s a Wall Street Journal article on the Hasbro reorganization that refers to D&D as “old-school tabletop games”.
• Here’s the Hasbro press release about the WotC CEO becoming the overall Hasbro CEO.
• Here’s the interview with WotC’s VP of tabletop gaming about the rationale for the OGL.
• Here’s an academic journal article with statistics on TTRPG publications after the release of the OGL.
• Here’s a very early Gizmodo piece on the updated OGL.
• Here’s a blog post that lays out the biggest issues with the proposed updated OGL.
• Here’s Hasbro’s annual SEC report for 2022.
• Here’s an article about the plans to release new editions under a Creative Commons license.
• Here’s a review of Paizo’s ORC license.
• Here’s a Reddit thread on Paizo’s ORC license and whether it’ll be applied to Pathfinder Infinite.
• Here’s Monte Cook’s guide to consent in gaming.

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