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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4413126" data-attributes="member: 3649">I think there are often different rights for different media, and much of Chaosium's rights devolve, if I remember correctly, from Arkham House. They're licensed to produce Cthulhu material for gaming, so they might have rights in the gaming arena for the use of certain beast, phrases, etc. Any RPG game material probably has to pass through them though I think if someone had the money to withstand a test case, they'd win based on how generic it's become.As far as Cthulhu-esque beasts, and themes, almost anyone can use those. It's become such a universal meme in the last 20 years that it's entered common usage. Look at the first Hellboy movie, for example.As far as novels and short fiction, anyone can write a Mythos story. Every major horror writer and most minor ones have at least one Mythos reference in some work they've done and a whole lot of them have done so for many years. I'd say that if anyone wanted to make a stink about it, Lovecraft and his fellow Inklings so poisoned those rights by borrowing and re-borrowing back and forth that it would be impossible to enforce.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 4413126, member: 3649"] I think there are often different rights for different media, and much of Chaosium's rights devolve, if I remember correctly, from Arkham House. They're licensed to produce Cthulhu material for gaming, so they might have rights in the gaming arena for the use of certain beast, phrases, etc. Any [B]RPG game [/B]material probably has to pass through them though I think if someone had the money to withstand a test case, they'd win based on how generic it's become. As far as Cthulhu-[I]esque [/I]beasts, and themes, almost anyone can use those. It's become such a universal meme in the last 20 years that it's entered common usage. Look at the first Hellboy movie, for example. As far as novels and short fiction, [I]anyone [/I]can write a Mythos story. Every major horror writer and most minor ones have at least one Mythos reference in some work they've done and a whole lot of them have done so for many years. I'd say that if anyone wanted to make a stink about it, Lovecraft and his fellow Inklings so poisoned those rights by borrowing and re-borrowing back and forth that it would be impossible to enforce. [/QUOTE]

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