Re: [Open_Gaming] Crucible of Freya Legal Text

Tue, 26 Sep 2000 05:48:46 -0700

But if you called him Arachnid Dude and he talked to sensing danger "As if someone was tugging on me web,"  you could probably get away with it.  They do this sort of thing in comics all the time.  The Squadron Supreme and Sh'iar Imperial Guard are thinly veiled knock offs of the Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes respectively, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shared a common origin with Daredevil, and don't even get me started on Rob Leifeld's rip-offs...I mean "creations".   The point being that even if something is trademarked you can get away with using the concept of it, so long as you change the concept sufficiently to not violate the Trademark. 
 
Chris
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Tassin, Ilium Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 25, 2000 6:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Open_Gaming] Crucible of Freya Legal Text

Now a Monolith associated directly to the description above could very easily be PI.  If someone else makes a "Monolith" and it is described with different words but exactly the same I would feel comfortable betting on the first party to have made the creature.  It's like if I made a hero called Spider-guy and gave him all the powers of spiderman...even if I changed the costume a bit guess who'd get sued.

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