Our licensing firm represents American Family Theatre which puts on
productions for Snow White, Pinnochio and many others that also have Disney
productions on the same themes.
Jared Nielsen
www.GameCodex.com
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> Subject: Re: [open-gaming] Re: [Open_Gaming] Public Domain Names
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> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Lizard wrote:
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> > At 8:27 AM -0700 6/17/00, Faustus von Goethe wrote:
> > >Responding to a question posed off-list, the following names are all
> > >in the public domain:
> > >
> > >Orcus - Roman underworld God - modelled on the Greek Hades.
> > >
> > >Dis Pater - Roman underworld God - also modelled somewhat on Hades.
> > >
> > >Asmodeus (Ashmedai) - the undisputed king of the demons in
> Hebrew mythology.
> > >
> > >Virtually all of the other names of the demon princes from the 1st
> > >edition supplements are likewise in the public domain - being from
> > >mythological sources.
> >
> > True, but "Orcus the Lord of Undead with the Munchkinny Wand" is a
> > TSR-owned creation.
> >
> > Snow White is public domain, but the specific interpretation of the
> > legend used in 1938 is owned by Disney. Unfortunately, they've used
> > this to try to squelch other used of the myth, which is part of
> > what's wrong with modern trademark (as opposed to copyright) laws.
> >
>
> Gah. The disney owns quite a bit smaller piece of snow-white than is
> commonly thought. As evidenced for example, by (among others) the various
> 'Snow whites' by say the french.
>
> > Copyright laws are, for the most part, reasonable. A lot of the worst
> > abuses in recent years have come from trademarks.
> >
>
> Sander
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