Who owns the name Malhavoc?
Just curious. It occured to me the other day that the DMG refers to the wizard Malhavoc, and that WotC considers all of that sort of flavor text to be "product identity" or copyrighted. I'm curious...
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Well, if they claim it as Product Identity, then there's still no problem.1) 'Malhavoc' vs 'Malhavoc Press'2) Comparing a fictional wizard to an actual company... there's no real overlap, so no...
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Hmm, so would "Elminster Press" be ok, too?Seriously, I suspect-- by the way, I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, yadda yadda-- that it's not a problem. There are two ways you can protect a...
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According to the copyright text in the Core book, all character names are WotC property. Of course, It's quite possible (and altogether likely) that the copyright text in the core books is incorrect...
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Quote: According to the copyright text in the Core book, all character names are WotC property.Again, IANAL, this is still not legal advice...Check out the U.S. Copyright Office's circular on Copyrigh...
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That is why there are several places that various people and the whitehouse(.gov!!. .com is baaaad) would like to shut sown, because they use their name.Sincerity is the Key. Once you can fake that,...
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It's either "I'm anal" or "I Am Not A Lawyer."I'm betting on the latter. Maunikar
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Quote: Names aren't protected by copyright. No, but they can be trademarked.
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Quote: No, but they can be trademarked.In reply to which, I'll quote myself from an earlier post in this thread.Quote: This isn't automatic like copyright, though. You have to actually register, and I...
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I noted an interesting thing in the Manual of the Planes. On the first layer of Celestia, there's a former evil wizard who has built a tower and who greets old friends and foes to come over for a chat...
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Actually, the name "Malhavoc" for a wizard has an earlier (and *far* Geekier) instance.It was the name of the evil Wizard in an episode of "The Superfriends" from the late 1970s or early 1980s (during...
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