Newsgroups: alt.games.whitewolf
From: [r--ab--h] at [netcom.com]
Subject: Re-issue of old White Wolf Press Release
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 16:48:00 GMT

For the general public's information, below is an updated version of an 
old Electronic Press Release, formerly dated July 14th. This is not meant 
to fan any flames, only to provide people with information, as many have 
felt that White Wolf has never stated it's position on the matter.

White Wolf continues to work with Steve Jackson Games to try and get this 
matter resolved.

ELECTRONIC NEWS RELEASE - August 10th, 1994

Re: GURPS: Mage the Ascension

This release is in response to information on the net that 
White Wolf exercised its right under contract to prevent Steve Jackson Games 
from publishing the current version of the GURPS Adaptation for our
Storyteller game Mage: The Ascension.

White Wolf received an outline from SJG at the start of GURPS Mage's 
development and later, the final, finished manuscript to review in May. 

The manuscript was examined in June by both Phil Brucato, our Mage 
Developer, and Steve Wieck, our president. It was determined by them that 
much of the text of the original Mage: The Ascension had been directly copied 
into the GURPS Adaptation manuscript. Since the GURPS 
adaptations of our games have been and should be *adaptations*, not 
*re-publications*, the decision was made to withold permission to
go to press with this version of the GURPS manuscript.

In short, White Wolf feels that the writers of GURPS: MtA should
*adapt* the text from Mage The Ascension, not *copy* it: they must put all of 
the rules, setting, and other content 'in their own words.' Although 
sections of GURPS: Vampire and GURPS: Werewolf contain some small amount 
of verbatim material from the original source, the GURPS: Mage material was 
mostly directly copied in the draft we received.

Note: The mention of or reference to any companies or products in this 
press release is not a challenge to the trademarks or copyrights concerned.

-- 
Sam Chupp ([r--ab--h] at [netcom.com], [t--ea--r] at [aol.com]) 
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