>From: "Ryan S. Dancey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: Faustus von Goethe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > You mean "trademark", right? > >Unapproved use of the term is a copyright infringement under the theory >of character copyright. "Illithid" is one of the unique aspects of D&D >that was not lifted from PD stuff. It has the same legal status as >"Jedi" or "Wookie".
OIC - because the term is used in the context of the "illithid" character, and the "illithid" is a copyright character of WotC. So any work that uses the "illithid" character without a license (and since it is not in the SRD there is no license) would be derivative. It just seems a stretch to call "an invented term for a tentacle-faced creature" a character. I though the character theory only applied to unique characters (i.e. proper names of individuals). Faust _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
