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I submit the OP of this thread as an example.
I would like one of these declarations, and have just applied for a compatibility license. Do I get it automatically after my application is processed, or is there something else I have to do to get one?
Also, if my application has already been submitted, is there a way to change the words Poison Apple Publishing into Poison Apple Games?
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Free advice: You can get free website hosting in any number of places other than somewhere that spawns multiple pop-ups on page load. Fortunately Firefox blocked them all but its not a good first impression. I submit to you that you may wish to consider something like Blogger or Google Sites, or any number of options other than Angelfire.
I'll try Blogger, then.
If I recall correctly, you can only have the publisher tag on an alias that is your real name.
Really? I don't typically hand that out. Perhaps I could discuss using a pen name with whoever makes these decisions?
I was misremembering this post here.
Edit: HERE is the actual post it was mentioned in.
I'll have to discuss it with Vic Wertz. I'm willing to make up something that sounds like it could be someone's real name but isn't mine, and I'll give him and the rest of Paizo my real name, I just don't want it going public.
I think the problem may be that if you portray yourself as a publisher, you need to be willing to do what a business-person does, and part of that is to be public with your name. You can easily maintain anonymity by not presenting yourself as a business entity. I think though that if you want to go the "professional" route you need to be willing to appear professional about it- and part of operating in a professional capacity would be presenting yourself in an open capacity. I could be wrong of course, but that's my suspicion. Remember though that if you simply want to distribute content freely to the community you do not need to be a 'publisher' and can do so in any number of ways.
I think the problem may be that if you portray yourself as a publisher, you need to be willing to do what a business-person does, and part of that is to be public with your name. You can easily maintain anonymity by not presenting yourself as a business entity. I think though that if you want to go the "professional" route you need to be willing to appear professional about it- and part of operating in a professional capacity would be presenting yourself in an open capacity. I could be wrong of course, but that's my suspicion. Remember though that if you simply want to distribute content freely to the community you do not need to be a 'publisher' and can do so in any number of ways.
Well, everything I put out will be free, so I am hoping being non-commercial will allow me not to go public with my name. I just sent an e-mail to Vic Wertz asking him if he'll allow this.
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"free" and "non-commercial" suggests no need for a "publisher" tag on your name. Lot's of people generate free content and don't claim to be, or ask to be, labeled as "publishers." To me the publisher tag suggests or implies a commercial business entity publishing/distributing content.
Mind you I'm not remotely in charge of these decisions so take that for whatever its worth.
"free" and "non-commercial" suggests no need for a "publisher" tag on your name. Lot's of people generate free content and don't claim to be, or ask to be, labeled as "publishers." To me the publisher tag suggests or implies a commercial business entity publishing/distributing content.
Mind you I'm not remotely in charge of these decisions so take that for whatever its worth.
In another thread Vic Wertz said that being charging or not charging money has no effect on whether you can use the compatibility license.
His exact words are here:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/general/doesMentioning MarijuanaViolateTheCommunityUsePolicy&page=1#34
So, by his words, I can be a non-commercial publisher, which is what I am trying to do.
In another thread Vic Wertz said that being charging or not charging money has no effect on whether you can use the compatibility license.
His exact words are here:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/general/doesMentioning MarijuanaViolateTheCommunityUsePolicy&page=1#34
So, by his words, I can be a non-commercial publisher, which is what I am trying to do.
To be clear, I couldn't care less one way or the other. I'm simply saying that from my perspective, people with the "Publisher" tag usually implies to me a commercial entity. Certainly you can be a commercial entity and give away content for free. I don't think there is any debate about that. Its more a matter of if you are, in fact, a publisher, as in, you have a business entity set up for the purpose of publishing content. If its you creating PDF's to give away for free, and there is no business entity, the publisher tag seems unnecessary. But, as I said, that's just me, so don't feel like you have to convince or justify anything to me. I'm simply sharing what *I* think the "publisher" tag is or should be for.
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Here's the Blogger version of the site.
So are you working with Badaxe Games on Trailblazer ? because I would definatley be interested in more stuff for Trailblazer.
Note that there are professional(ish) publishers that do just fine without the "Publisher" tag next to their user id.
Here's the Blogger version of the site.So are you working with Badaxe Games on Trailblazer ? because I would definatley be interested in more stuff for Trailblazer.
I have no affiliation with Bad Axe. In fact, I renamed my project Voyager because of them already having something called Trailblazer.
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I've made a longer post addressing some of the OP's questions here; the part relevant to this thread is that we only offer Publisher tags to parties that we have a direct business relationship with, such as consignment or PDF sales agreements, or a direct (that is, non-open) license.
(This would have been off-topic for the other thread, but when we say we only put tags on real names, we really mean "professional names." If you do all your business under a pseudonym, that would count.)