>All of the older D&D stuff would fall under your run of the mill copyright >law. They cannot copyright Hercules or Zeus, but they can copyright the >stats and descriptive text. It is pretty simple...if it is in print it is >protected under both national and international copyright laws. If it is >NOT marked as OGC then it isn't open. Did I miss anything here?
yes: "not open" != "product identity". >I would just ignore all the TSR books... > >Wasn't there an issue a while back when TSR tried to copyright or trademark >the word "Nazi" when the picked up all the old SSI games? *snort* [attempting to nip this one in the bud.] no. in the Indiana Jones RPG, there were little cardboard standups, to be used as miniatures, and they had movie stills on them for the images. one of them was of a generic faceless Nazi, and there was a "TM" on the standup. but, one, that trademark was being claimed by Lucasfilm, not TSR, and, two, it was a trademark on the image, not the word. -- woodelf <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.net/woodelph/ If any religion is right, maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them. --Sinclair _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
