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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6172032" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>So this looks like part of just one lawsuit. Aside from wrangling technicalities what _I_ got from it is that Arneson was being paid royalties just as Gygax was for the earliest versions of D&D under partnership/agreement/thingy with "Tactical Studies Rules". Tactical Studies Rules was entirely and permanently dissolved and "TSR" was incorporated in its place several years prior. TSR assumed all rights and responsibilities of "Tactical Studies Rules". Arneson was employed by as well as a minority stockholder of TSR. Gygax was not the majority stockholder but had less than 1/3 of the stock. I assume Blume had the majority stock at this point with Blume being chairman of the board and Gygax being employed as CEO. TSR then developed, marketed and began selling AD&D (which did not yet include the DMG). They didn't pay Arneson royalties for those sales on the principle that although he had participated in the development of the original game of D&D he had little or no influence in the development of <em>Advanced </em>D&D. Arneson seemingly wanted royalties for anything developed from the original D&D rules despite no longer being a part of substantial changes and development. Part of the issue then is whether AD&D was <em>really </em>still the same game or if it was something bigger/better and entirely new that he had no hand in or rights to. That would have been an issue for the <em>actual </em>trial or a settlement agreement and neither such is in the original link.</p><p></p><p>Part of the legalistic wrangling had to do here with Gary being named specifically as a defendant with Arneson claiming that Gygax personally ran the whole show and the counter-claim that he couldn't possibly since he wasn't even the majority stockholder. It seems the great bulk of the back-and-forth noted by the documents would have been avoided if Arneson's lawyers had simply filed suit in Wisconsin instead of Minnesota.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and I saw that purchase of _A_ computer and software in 1979 amounted to upwards of $50,000. Unbelievable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6172032, member: 32740"] So this looks like part of just one lawsuit. Aside from wrangling technicalities what _I_ got from it is that Arneson was being paid royalties just as Gygax was for the earliest versions of D&D under partnership/agreement/thingy with "Tactical Studies Rules". Tactical Studies Rules was entirely and permanently dissolved and "TSR" was incorporated in its place several years prior. TSR assumed all rights and responsibilities of "Tactical Studies Rules". Arneson was employed by as well as a minority stockholder of TSR. Gygax was not the majority stockholder but had less than 1/3 of the stock. I assume Blume had the majority stock at this point with Blume being chairman of the board and Gygax being employed as CEO. TSR then developed, marketed and began selling AD&D (which did not yet include the DMG). They didn't pay Arneson royalties for those sales on the principle that although he had participated in the development of the original game of D&D he had little or no influence in the development of [I]Advanced [/I]D&D. Arneson seemingly wanted royalties for anything developed from the original D&D rules despite no longer being a part of substantial changes and development. Part of the issue then is whether AD&D was [I]really [/I]still the same game or if it was something bigger/better and entirely new that he had no hand in or rights to. That would have been an issue for the [I]actual [/I]trial or a settlement agreement and neither such is in the original link. Part of the legalistic wrangling had to do here with Gary being named specifically as a defendant with Arneson claiming that Gygax personally ran the whole show and the counter-claim that he couldn't possibly since he wasn't even the majority stockholder. It seems the great bulk of the back-and-forth noted by the documents would have been avoided if Arneson's lawyers had simply filed suit in Wisconsin instead of Minnesota. Oh, and I saw that purchase of _A_ computer and software in 1979 amounted to upwards of $50,000. Unbelievable. [/QUOTE]
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