Re: Sued by Cthulhu
3 Feb 1995 20:56:24 GMT
In article <3g65c8$2hn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, zbir@ucs.indiana.edu (zachery joseph bir) writes:
: How does everyone feel about using a pre-established background for
: stories? The game I am working on is heavily influenced by Lovecraft,
: and I want to center the story in and around Arkham. Now, I have
: communicated with Chaosium (producers of the RPG Call of Cthulhu), and
: they heavily frown on it, but I believe, from past communication with
: Arkham House (current publishers of Lovecraft's works), the _ideas_,
: including place names, entity names, etc. are not Copyrighted, and so
: long as no plagarism takes place, I would be free to write an I-F game
: based on Lovecraft's works. It is this snag, you see, that really
: prevents me from fervently undertaking this. Could I come up against
: legal problems if I were to continue with the game? Chaosium does hold
: certain trademarks, one I believe is 'Cthulhu', so what could happen if
: I were to try?
More troubles than (I assume) you would want....
It's just not worth it when all you have to do is change the proper
nouns and place it in another town in the same universe....
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