*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
> 
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