On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:09, Bryan Gillispie wrote: > This touches on a debate from a few weeks ago. Let's say company ABC > releases a magic item called "Holy Handpick" and PI's the name and > company XYZ releases a magic item called "holy handpick" but as 100% > OGC, no PI. Could I source the name "Holy Handpick" from the OGC source > and then source the items description from the PI'ed source?
That depends. I suspect that in this simple case, you probably can, provided you can show that the 'prior art' for the name "Holy Handpick" predates the publication of the PI'd "Holy Handpick". If you can't you're dead in the water in my opinion. The complication is that it's possible that the >description< of the "Holy Handpick" in the PI'd source was also PI'd. Depending on how much that description (not the game mechanics - I mean the physical description of the item) matters, you may still be out of luck. Ryan _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
