what about writing lotr and hobbit as tactical battle maps?
true its not a full game but its less fiddling round.
At 05:12 AM 4/20/2013, you wrote:
Hi Phil,
Right. Yeah, I forgot about that. Of course, I think an audio game
developer could do essentially the same thing as the Dungeons and
Dragons books by borrowing generic fantasy elements of Lord of the
Rings such as goblins, trolls, gnomes, etc and instead of call the
Hobbits Hobbits use half lings etc. Its just that a developer couldn't
use any of the copyrighted components directly unless they were
willing to run the risk of copyright infringement.
Cheers!
On 4/19/13, Phil Vlasak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> The LOTR books are still copyrighted.
> The Dungeons and Dragons books got around copyright by calling their half
> sized humanoids Halflings instead of hobbits.
> Other creatures like Elves and Gnomes are generic names that
have been used
>
> for centuries and thus can't be copyrighted.
> Phil
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