Re: [RQ-Rules] House Rules and copyright

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From: Steve Perrin (steve@perrinworlds.com)
Date: Thu 06 Dec 2001 - 20:03:53 EET

I'm not a lawyer, so I just try to present a good faith effort. As I
understand it, distinctive words like Bladesharp could be called a copyright
infringement, while something like fireball and lightning bolt, which are
pretty generic, can't. If you change either the title or the description,
you are probably in good shape. And if you aren't selling your house rules,
you really have nothing to worry about, particularly since Hasbro is
unlikely (but you never know) to be checking out random websites to make
sure people are not infringing on a property of their that they are not
supporting.

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew O. Mellinger" <andrew@crashbox.com>
To: <rq-rules@crashbox.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [RQ-Rules] House Rules and copyright

> >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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