Posted by Tim Dugger on December 08, 1998 at 09:16:50:
Hello,
Some frineds of mine and I recently started an online ezine
for support of our favorite rpg company. For those who do not know, rpg stands for Role-playing-game,
a pencil and paper type of game in which folks create fantasy (or other genre) characters, and partake in what has been called interactive
storytelling.
Well, we published our first issue, and a representative of the company came screaming, saying that we had broken copyright,
because we had published derivitive (sp?) works, and that his company had to get final say before an article was printed.
I am looking for information to dispute this claim, and to regain the ezines autonomy from the company.
once had a person tell me that as long as we place a disclaimer on such works, that it was okay, since a gaming system could not be copyrighted, though textual description and such could be.
So does original works, written to be used with a paticular game system in mind count as copyright infringement or not, and are there any court cases/ruling that I can find to back this up?
Thanks!!!