On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Jed Hagen wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:36:11 -0600
From: Jed Hagen <blaidd@alumni.psu.edu>
To: DirandauAlbatou@aol.com, ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Spam] Answer to Weis & Hickman!
At 11:53 AM 2/16/2000 -0500, DirandauAlbatou@aol.com wrote:
Thanks to everyone who help me out ^.^ But the guy with this homepage:
http://members.home.net/blaidd/ (Ok, I admit it.. I'm too lazy to go back to
the old mail to figure out where he put his name^^;;) Had this one for me:
<< Rather look into the policies of TSR, who own Dragonlance:
http://www.wizards.com/contactinfo/TSR_Online_Policy.asp
Sigh...
But of course things are never that simple. And unfortunately only a
_little_ more work came up with a more likely applicable policy:
http://www.wizards.com/contactinfo/submissions_books.asp
This one rather clearly says "no".
So one should probably ask a person who knows the policy better. I'll
leave the specifics of that as an exercise to the reader (but here's a
hint: actually read the pages above).
THIS:
; Any
; monster, place, or character found in classical literature or general
; mythology is not covered under TSR trademark and, therefore, may be
; used. However, be careful not to copy characteristics that are
; specific to TSR's descriptions.
is a load of crap.
Okay, raise your hand if you've ever read an adapted description of
something [i.e. as mentioned above, a fanfiction of an anime, etc] and taken
that as being the 'real' description.
fanfiction is my only contact with any anime except pokemon, dbz, and
sailormoon. at one point, i'd read something in a ranma fanfiction and think
that that was canon. [an example is the idea that mallets are stored in an
alternate dimension and only akane can access them] T$R would be legally
required to mark in ALL materials which characteristics of such things were
contrived by them if they even want a PRAYER of a chance at enforcing this
particular clause.
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