On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
>
> You bet. So a smart publisher who didn't want to bother jumping through any
> legal loopholes will simply ignore anything wearing a Product Identity
> "verbotten" sticker and not even attempt to figure out how to use it.
>
> Until they get to something like a Product Identity label on a character
> name of "Charlie". Or a monster named "Frost Ape".
>
> Now that person is going to start to wonder about how many other common,
> public domain things various companies think they "own", and have asserted
> Product Identity for. And that's a bad situation, though not as bad as
> having no safe harbor at all. It would be great if in general, Product
> Identity was used for stuff that probably >IS< trademarkable or
> copyrightable, even if nobody wants to go to the trouble to pursue the
> matter all the way through to registration.
>
> To the extent that slapping PI identification on public domain content can
> be avoided, it should be avoided.
>
> Ryan
Sorry if this has been asked and answered already, but is there a list
of PI items for TSR/WOTC products available? I browsed through the OGF
and WOTC sites but didn't see such a thing at hand.
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