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Could D&D Rights Be Stripped From WotC?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7824036" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>What? No. This is just as nonsensical as the original post. You cannot reclaim a copyright that never existed in the first place.</p><p></p><p>"Forgotten Realms" is not a copyrighted work any more than "Dungeons & Dragons" is. Both are trademarks owned by WotC, which WotC slaps on a whole bunch of books and boxed sets and things. Each individual book is a copyrighted work, but they are almost entirely works for hire (thus not eligible, per [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]) and very few of them were written by Greenwood anyway.</p><p></p><p>Now, Greenwood wrote some FR novels back in the day, and if he did not write them as works for hire, he <em>might</em> be able to reclaim copyright <em>to those specific novels. </em>But "Forgotten Realms," the trademark, belongs to Wizards of the Coast, and so do all the books Wizards of the Coast hired people to write in FR. Greenwood cannot claim any of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7824036, member: 58197"] What? No. This is just as nonsensical as the original post. You cannot reclaim a copyright that never existed in the first place. "Forgotten Realms" is not a copyrighted work any more than "Dungeons & Dragons" is. Both are trademarks owned by WotC, which WotC slaps on a whole bunch of books and boxed sets and things. Each individual book is a copyrighted work, but they are almost entirely works for hire (thus not eligible, per [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER]) and very few of them were written by Greenwood anyway. Now, Greenwood wrote some FR novels back in the day, and if he did not write them as works for hire, he [I]might[/I] be able to reclaim copyright [I]to those specific novels. [/I]But "Forgotten Realms," the trademark, belongs to Wizards of the Coast, and so do all the books Wizards of the Coast hired people to write in FR. Greenwood cannot claim any of that. [/QUOTE]
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