[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/24/2005 3:43:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<I don't understand this statement. Are you saying that the WotC OGL
builds the authority to declare PI upon copyright law? How is that
possible, given that almost everything in the exemplary list for PI is
not protectable by copyright?>>
Almost all of them are protectable, but only as collections of items.
The case law on recipe books covers this type of copyrightability of
collections of otherwise uncopyrightable elements. Also, things like
names may be copyrightable insofar as they are attached to a very
specific character description. A character name (or spell name,
etc.) removed from its corresponding description and not presented
inside the collection of other names that originally appeared with it
would not be copyrightable (although it could be trademarkable).
Lee
themes? poses? plots? storylines? concepts? I can see that some of those
*might* be trademarkable, but copyrightable? Is there *any* caselaw
saying that a concept can be copyrighted, distinct from the expression
of that concept, even as a collection? Because, by default, we all know
that copyright gives no prtection to ideas, only their expression, and
those things sound an awful lot like ideas to me.
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