*HAS* anyone contacted Wizards to request permission or to clarify the absence of certain items from the offical version of the SRD? Is there a specific update/answer on this issue, or are we just "hemmin' an' hawin'"?
-Mike --- Rogers Cadenhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
