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Beholders, Mind Flayers, and Strahd von Zarovich Released Into Creative Commons (Kinda)
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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8918684" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Cool, so that is now in the Creative Commons. AFAICS you can now write "1d3 mind flayers live here" in your OSR dungeon. But you cannot publish "The Bumper Book of Mind Flayers" if it makes substantial use of WoTC's copyrighted expression, ie your mind flayers can't be (much) like theirs. </p><p></p><p>You can <em>refer</em> to Mind Flayers, but it doesn't give you any rights to use whatever copyrighted expression of the 'mind flayer' concept WoTC owns (and the law is both vague on this, and varies by jurisdiction) beyond "have psychic attacks and are aberrations", which in itself does not seem detailed enough to be copyright protected.</p><p></p><p>The big thing about Creative Commons is that it does not limit the licensee's rights the way the OGL 1.0 does, so this is pretty big. In fact I could probably now use the very early Githyanki & Slaad material published by Charles Stross in White Dwarf, at least under UK law, and combine it with 5e SRD stuff licenced under CC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 8918684, member: 463"] Cool, so that is now in the Creative Commons. AFAICS you can now write "1d3 mind flayers live here" in your OSR dungeon. But you cannot publish "The Bumper Book of Mind Flayers" if it makes substantial use of WoTC's copyrighted expression, ie your mind flayers can't be (much) like theirs. You can [I]refer[/I] to Mind Flayers, but it doesn't give you any rights to use whatever copyrighted expression of the 'mind flayer' concept WoTC owns (and the law is both vague on this, and varies by jurisdiction) beyond "have psychic attacks and are aberrations", which in itself does not seem detailed enough to be copyright protected. The big thing about Creative Commons is that it does not limit the licensee's rights the way the OGL 1.0 does, so this is pretty big. In fact I could probably now use the very early Githyanki & Slaad material published by Charles Stross in White Dwarf, at least under UK law, and combine it with 5e SRD stuff licenced under CC. [/QUOTE]
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