I was just talking about general copyright law, not "open-ness". Obviously, wnything actually in the SRD is open (by definition).
Someone argued that copyright law wouldn't protect "dragons", I included two very different (and IMHO <IANAL> protectable) variants of the generic "dragon". --- woodelf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IMHO, the whole "chromatic" vs. "metallic" and Paladine vs. Tiamat > >makes up the > >idiosyncratic elements of DnD dragons...plus metallics have 2 breath > weapons, > >color determines which breath weapon, all of this makes their dragons unique > >and, therefore, protectable. > > except that they've released almost all of that via the D20SRD. just > from the stats, i know that they come in 10 flavors, 5 of which are > good and 5 of which are evil. i know that breath weapons are linked > to color, (as are intelligence, size, and several other things), and > that the good/metallic ones have 2 breath weapons. basically, the > elements of D&D dragons that i cannot infer from the released > material are only: > > --Tiamat & Bahamut > --personality trends: the fact that, frex, Copper dragons are > gregarious while Bronze dragons are isolationist (or do i have those > backwards?--i don't have any books right in front of me) > --the fact that Gold dragons have long sinuous bodies, whiskers, and > 4 legs, while all the rest of them have lizard-like bodies with 4 > legs and 2 wings (and no hair, just scales) > > IOW, dragons are a poor example, because, while there's a *lot* of > D&D-specific stuff that TSR/WotC has added over the years, very > little of it doesn't show up in the D20SRD--so i think it's a bit > hard to argue that a dragon illustration that is like those in the > D&D3E MM must be illegally derivative. only if you decide to get the > horny bits on the head exactly the same would i expect it to be a > problem. > -- > woodelf <*> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://webpages.charter.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://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l ===== Jasyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
