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<blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 3226137" data-attributes="member: 20931">This may not be true. A case was brought against Palladium when they came up with their Nightspawn game (spawn, get it). The nightspawn name isn't owned, has little relation to Spawn, and fits your description of a word that can't be owned. I doubt this though, given the percentage of intellectual property claims on record (the Martin Luther King Jr estate gets $50 for every word used from his famous speech if you quote it. Harley Davidson attempted to patent their engines sound).Palladium changed the games name rather than get into a court battle (winning a case can leave you just as broke). Same can happen with this, and Square Enix isn't a company WotC can out lawyer easily. I'm sure they wouldn't want to see WotC increase their sales with a barely changed ability made so famous from the FFVII game.PS: And let's not go into WotC maintaining intellectual p[roperty rights on the beholder...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storyteller01, post: 3226137, member: 20931"] This may not be true. A case was brought against Palladium when they came up with their Nightspawn game (spawn, get it). The nightspawn name isn't owned, has little relation to Spawn, and fits your description of a word that can't be owned. I doubt this though, given the percentage of intellectual property claims on record (the Martin Luther King Jr estate gets $50 for every word used from his famous speech if you quote it. Harley Davidson attempted to patent their engines sound). Palladium changed the games name rather than get into a court battle (winning a case can leave you just as broke). Same can happen with this, and Square Enix isn't a company WotC can out lawyer easily. I'm sure they wouldn't want to see WotC increase their sales with a barely changed ability made so famous from the FFVII game. PS: And let's not go into WotC maintaining intellectual p[roperty rights on the beholder... [/QUOTE]

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