October 9, 2013 at 12:09 pm · Filed under Copyright , Games , Intellectual Property , Law, Policy, Activism
Well-known game designer Monte Cook completed a very successful Kickstarter project for Numenera , his new role-playing game. (Full disclosure: I was most definitely a backer, and I have been a fan of Monte Cook for a long, long time.)
Monte Cook Games just released their Fan Use Policy and Limited License . This post by Rob Donoghue at Evil Hat almost perfectly mirrors my opinion on the licenses, and there’s also an excellent follow-up post at the Ninth World blog . Apparently some folks have been fairly upset about the licenses. I’m honestly not all that sure why. I may have some things I would have done a bit differently. I give them a big thumbs up for making the licenses human readable, but there are parts of them to the point where