First off, let me point out that I am *NOT* in any manner a laywer; all that
follows is my layman's opinion, and if you really want a legal opinion of
credibility you should talk to a laywer.
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ole Sebastian
> Stein
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Open_Gaming] Other's trademarks in my copyrighted material
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> Selling as in gaining profits, or selling as in to take charge for the
> medium (book or CD)? (Would GFDL be "not selling"?)
I know of at least one site that "sells" a copy of its netbook in paper
form, and charges the cost of the printing and shipping. It also
distributes the book online, free of charge. I know that the site is up,
but I don't know if there is any extenuating circumstances. You *MIGHT* be
able to do it, but the persons to ask would be WotC, not the list.
> Besides, are these USA-spesific of INTERNATIONAL advice? Any country that
> has signed the Bern treaty (or what it is called) has to treat an
> international copyrightholder at a certain level, and never worse than
> national copyrightholders.
:) Like I said, I'm not lawyer. But I do live in the US...
> I wonder how WotC handles copyright and Trademarks in a country where they
> don't have an office. Say I publish a netbook on my norwegian site, what
> then? (If somebody interpretes this last question as someting like "is it
> easy to get away with?", I must say that was not the intetion. I humbly
> want to understand these things better so that I DO NOT do anything bad.)
>
> Thanks for the help so far :)
If you infringed upon them on any site, the first thing you'd probably see
is a letter from WotC legal asking you to take of the material. If they had
to, they'd take you to court--or exert Hasbro-level corporate pressure on
your ISP (or their ISP, or THEIR ISP...)
DM
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