On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:06:50 -0600, woodelf wrote: >hmmm... on first glance, looks ok. The WotC OGL forbids using >trademarks without permission (even in ways that woul normally be >legal without obtaining prior permission). But those aren't >trademarks.
Your trademark search only shows registered trademarks. They could still be trademarks; under U.S. law, you have some trademark rights even without registration: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/register.htm It's clear that anyone who used beholders and the other excluded creatures under the gentlemen's agreement has to revise their work or pursue a separate license with WOTC. What's the obligation of the people who derived work from *their* work? How is a developer who based work on Slayer's Guide to the Yuan Ti bound by a gentlemen's agreement between Mongoose and WOTC? -- Rogers Cadenhead, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/18/2003 Weblog: http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
