Of course you can use the words "Dungeons and Dragons" without
copyright infringement, don't be silly.
However, they are trademarked, so using the term "Dungeons and Dragons"
for an rpg would really end up with you in hot water. One could argue
that "Dungeons and Dragons" is a generic term, or that if you use
a different font and different color than the registered mark, that
you could get by with it. One could even go further and say that
Wizards has watered down their trademark on "Dungeons and Dragons"
because a trademark is an adjective, not a noun, and they use it
incorrectly all over the place with inconsistent lettering, forgetting
the circle r, etc. (have their lawyers not even looked at their website?).
However, the meat of the matter is that you would be sued, and even
if you won, you would be in the wrong.
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:06 PM
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Subject: [Ogf-l] More can you copyright a system?
>Simply being "compatible with" a copyrighted system does not by itself
constitute infringement. If the compatible work substantially >reproduces
material from the original, then it may be an infringement of copyright.
Whether it is legal then rests on the question of "fair use".
I found this under that games copyright site someone sent before. But I
suppose we still can not use the words Dungeons and Dragons with out
infringment, or can we?
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