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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7807713" data-attributes="member: 58172">[URL unfurl="true"]https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/473/759/2148159/[/URL]1979 Arneson v Gygax and TSR'FactsPlaintiff alleges that since mid-1977 amounts less than those required by the royalty agreement have been paid to him. Plaintiff further claims that defendants Gygax and TSR Hobbies ... have tortiously interfered with the royalty agreement by developing and marketing ... games or game rules ... "copied in substantial part and wholly derived" from "Dungeons and Dragons," and have defeated his right to the notoriety of authorship by falsely representing such games and playing aids to be solely authored by defendant Gygax.'...During 1973 and 1974 plaintiff and defendant Gygax in his individual capacity collaborated on the authorship of "Dungeons and Dragons." There was extensive correspondence between them by phone and mail during this time. The game was first marketed in January 1974. The written contract was executed in April 1975. Defendant Gygax signed in Wisconsin and he was named as co-author. ...In 1977 TSR Hobbies, Inc. began marketing "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Players Handbook" and in 1978 "Dungeons and Dragons, Monster Manual," under the sole authorship of Gary Gygax. ... No royalties were paid to plaintiff for sales of these works.'Presumably, the lawyers of Arneson presented evidence of this "extensive correspondence between them by phone and mail", so as to establish it as one of the facts. This would include the transcripts of the Arneson campaign and the game designs by Arneson.The people involved who say the judge saw these transcripts are likely telling the truth.</blockquote>

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