Highmoon Media Productions wrote:
Personally I have a mind to simply ignore the PI declaration as it
applies to these terms, which have obviously been in use before the
Slaine comic or the game, but I wanted to ask for thoughts on the matter.
Given that you've provided alternate spellings or valid synonyms for
most of the PI terms, I don't see what you would lose by choosing those
variants and staying away from the ones they've claimed. Even though
their claims are likely indefensible, how would you profit by getting
into a scrape you could easily avoid?
If it were my project, I'd also give a definition or historical sidebar
for the similar terms I used which would make it clear that the usage
was derived from my own research and reading, not the Slaine comic.
Here's a technical question for the list - the SRD lists Product
Identity that's not used in the text. Could you tweak Mongoose's nose by
saying in your OGL declaration, or somewhere on your lawyer's page, "Tir
Nan Og is Product Identity of the Slaine RPG by Mongoose... Tir na nOg
is a public domain term derived from centuries of public domain myth and
literature" and so forth?
- Tavis
www.behemoth3.com
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