----- Original Message ----- From: "Lizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:37 PM 1/21/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Am I the only one who sees the immense humor in all of this? Am I the only > >one who has read the information presented by the Library of > >Congress/Copyright Office regarding art? <smacks forehead> > > You mean, the part where it says I can't publish a picture of Superman, > Mickey Mouse, or Spiderman, even if I drew the picture myself (i.e, it > isn't a scan or a copy of an existing piece of art)? That seems to be the > issue here -- character copyright.
They are individual characters, a "mind flayer" is not. I'll agree that the line is somewhat grey and nebulous and that different people perhaps draw it at different places. Though the law seems to draw it at "tangible." > You publish a licensed Zorro RPG. That license, I'm guessing, includes not > only the name 'Zorro', but rights to the 'distinctive likeness' of the > character(s). Sure, but that doesn't give you the right to the distinctive likenesses of all "black clad, mask wearing, swashbucklers" IMHO. Nor, also IMHO, would it give you the right to all Spaniards, Mexicans, or Humans, even were they new ideas Ryan Fisk - woed at earthlink dot net - home.earthlink.net/~woed _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
