> De�: Clark Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date�: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:29:48 -0700 (PDT)
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> Objet�: [Open_Gaming] Crucible of Freya Legal Text
>
> For example, here is the Legal Appendix for The
> Crucible if Freya. I'd love to hear critique of this:
>
> <chapter>Appendix 2: Open Game Content and Licenses
>
> This printing of The Crucible of Freya is done under
> the Open Game License version 1.0 and a draft version
> of the D20 System Trademark License by permission from
> Wizards of the Coast. Once finalized, subsequent
> printings of this book will incorporate final versions
> of both licenses.
>
> This publication contains Open Game Content, as
> defined below. Open Game Content may only be Used
> under and in accordance with the terms of the Open
> Game License as fully set forth at the end of this
> Appendix.
>
> Designation of Product Identity: The following items
> are hereby designated as Product Identity in
> accordance with Section 1(e) of the Open Game License,
> version 1.0: All Necromancer Games logos and
> identifying marks and trade dress, including all
> Necromancer Games Product and Product Line names
> including but not limited to The Wizard?s Amulet, The
> Crucible if Freya, The Tomb of Abysthor, Bard?s Gate,
> Rappan Athuk and The Dungeon of Graves; all Sword and
> Sorcery Studios logos and identifying marks and trade
> dress, including all Sword and Sorcery Product and
> Product Line names; all artwork, illustration, graphic
> design, maps and cartography; the story, storyline,
> plots, thematic elements, dialogue, incidents,
> language, artwork, symbols, designs, depictions,
> likenesses, formats, poses, concepts, themes and
> graphic, photographic and other visual or audio
> representations contained herein; the character and
> creature names Shandril, Corian, Tavik, Vortigern,
Vortirgen?
Why don�t also says Arthur, Moses, Viviane, Robin Hood, Newton, Ulysses. I
think you will have hard time if you want to try to PI (Product Identity)
famous real of fantasy names. Also I wonder if PI is "legal" and if you
don�t need ALSO to Trademark the names you want BEFORE making them PI.
> Talon, Baran, Lauriel, Arlen and Eralion and their
> descriptions, though not their stat blocks; the town
> name of Fairhill and its description, though not its
> stat block; and all text and description not otherwise
> designated as Open Game Content below. The above
> Product Identity is not Open Game Content and
> reproduction without the written permission of the
> copyright holder is expressly forbidden, except for
> the purposes of reviews.
>
> Designation of Open Game Content: The following
> material is hereby designated as Open Game Content and
> may be Used pursuant to the terms of the Open Game
> License: all creature, character, item, spell, town,
> deity and trap ?stat blocks? and their accompanying
> names, including the stat blocks and names of any such
> creatures, characters, items, spells, towns, deities
> and traps
Traps? You will also have hard time to says when your trap is originam or
burrowed from other source.
> original to this adventure module, except
> for those specifically designated as Product Identity,
> above. In addition, all material derived wholly from
> the D20 SRD and/or the Third Edition Dungeons and
> Dragons? Player?s Handbook, Dungeons Master?s Guide
> and/or Monster Manual, all of which are published by
> Wizards of the Coast? is designated as Open Game
> Content as required by the Open Game License. Any use
> of Open Game Content derived from this work requires
> the following copyright notice: ?The Crucible of Freya
> ? 2000, Clark Peterson and Bill Webb, Necromancer
> Games, Inc.?
>
but it seems a nice and good try
Pierre Rosenthal
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