"Faustus von Goethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >People believed Drow was in the public domain and wrote free
> >modules about it before TSR asserted their trademark. It would
> >be quite a hindrance to line up evidence of every term you believe
> >to be in the public domain in case someone might come by later
> >and assert a trademark on it.
>
> As an example, for Earth 1066 our current "List of Terms" is currently
well
> over 2,000 entries, all of which we believe are adequately in the public
> domain.
So trademark the terms and OGL them. ;-) Then everyone has a royalty-free
license to use those terms, and someone else can't come along and trademark
them later.
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Kevin J. Brennan, Fourth Millennium Line Developer
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