From: Andrew O. Mellinger (andrew@crashbox.com)
Date: Thu 06 Dec 2001 - 18:11:58 EET
>Rules cannot be copyrighted, as I know only too well.
>
>The specific words in a set of rules can be copyrighted, however. So I do
>not use any copyrighted tables, etc., in my rules set. I've even changed a
>lot of the unique spell names for RuneQuest into their equivalents in SPQR.
>
>Steve Perrin
This means a series of words right? So I could call a spell
"Bladesharp" in my own rules but I couldn't use the same text right?
About tables. How much does one have to change a table to be
different enough to be derivate and not copyrighted? For example:
The RQ weapons table.
-Andrew
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew O. Mellinger" <andrew@crashbox.com>
>To: <runequest-rules@lists.ient.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:19 PM
>Subject: [RQ-RULES] House Rules and copyright
>
>
>> Everyone,
>>
>> It seems that Everyone has their own house rules (including me)
>> that they cobble from a bunch of source. How does everyone deal with
>> copyright? Do you make changes to other rules (Sandy's for example)
>> and publish them on your website for your players? Do you reproduce
>> modified tables from the orignal RQ and publish them?
>>
> > -Andrew
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