Hi Chrissie,
The authors who write Star Trek and Star Wars books have permission from
the copyright holders to do so. Often the authors are insiders of those
copyrights anyway. For example Jerri Taylor use to write the screen
plays for the star Trek tv show, and also put out several STNG books.
As for the ship names technically using U.S.S. Enterprise on it's own is
not a trademark as there have been several U.S. naval ships named
Enterprise. Most notably the U.S.S. Enterprise which was an aircraft
carrier in World War II.
Where the problem comes in is using Enterprise as it relates to Star
Trek, and using the official Star Trek effects. If you remove all ship
names, and sound effects and replace them with something else then the
game, book, movie, etc esentually is no longer Star Trek. The same goes
for Star Wars.
There would be no way of creating a Star Wars game without having Jedi,
Light sabers, blasters, etc. The effects for all those things are owned
by Skywalker Sound which is a devision of Lucasfilm Limited.
Chris Frahm wrote:
> What about StarTrek games that don't use official Trek charecters or
> ships?
> I mean authors write trek books all the time and there are IF games....so
> can't we just set something in the trek or Star Wars universe without it
> infringing on anything really?
> Chrissie
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