An Attempt To Identify Some Traveller OTU Product Identity..

[B_Steele]

I'm sure what they actually trademarked was a very specific use of the word.

As a huge comic geek as well as a gamer, I must chime in.

Marvel did not trademark Death...they trademarked the use of the term in relation to an image they had drawn for a character. Essentially, no one could draw the same character in a different media and title it Death. It's like Wolverine. You can't trademark the explicit use of the animal's name, but if you attached it to a hairy guy with claws on his hands that said 'Bub' way too much...Quesada would soon be sending in the Legal X-Team.

Again, context is big in these sorts of legal situations.

-Bry

 

[Allensh]

I have seen some funny stuff publishers try and claim is PI.

The original TSR Indiana Jones RPG had Nazi trademarked. :lol:

Not exactly. That's a well-known "urban legend" but not accurate. if you examine the copyright notice on the figures in that module you'd find that it is actually LUCASFILM, not TSR, which claims the copyright. And the copyright is on the word Nazi when associated with that particular piece of artwork, not Nazi as a word in and of itself.

Allen

 

[qstor]

Who "owns" the politcal states then? The authors?

thanks

Mike

 

[Golan2072]

Who "owns" the politcal states then? The authors?

Real political states or movements are part of history and thus public domain (i.e. owned by no one); specific interpretations or depictions of them (e.g. Indiana Jones' Nazis) are owned by whoever created the interpretation or depiction. Imaginary polities are owned by whoever created them.

 

[Infojunky]

Flynn I believe that Hunter did most of this work with T20, you might want to check out his list.