Ryan Fisk wrote: > 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."
I'm not sure it matters if the work describes an individual or a group, race, whatever. Somehow I think Lucas would claim character copyright for Jedi, stormtroopers, wookies, ewoks, etc. The term "tangible" doesn't seem to be relevant because the Office uses it to mean fixed in media. As in, choreography is not tangible but written notation is and a recording of a performance is. > 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 But a wealthy, Spanish, masked hero living in Mexico fighting Spanish oppression of the masses that leaves a distinctive mark with his sword seems to go beyond the basic ideas and get right in the middle of the "Zorro" character. Weldon Dodd [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
