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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 2017169" data-attributes="member: 3457">You don't really need to purchase the rights to publish a mythos game, you just can't call it Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium owns the trademark on the title). Most of HPL's estate exists in the public domain and has for years because nobody bothered to copyright it. Derleth claims to own the copyright but HP's aunts were the inheritors to the estate and not Uncle Augy. Since the Aunties never did anything to protect Howie's estate the rights would have lapsed in the early to mid 70s and even then, again in the mid 90s. The only thing protect is the trademark terms like Call of Cthulhu, Mythos etc. that Chaosium and Uncle Augy have used in their book titles. If I wanted to publish a game set in the word of H.P. Lovecraft I could, it is just coming up with a recognizable title that doesn't violate the trademarks.Jason</blockquote>