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[UPDATED AGAIN] Gary Gygax's Widow & TSR Settle Trademark Dispute
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 7687545" data-attributes="member: 2732"><p>You misread my statement. There are three things that Ernie has contributed to. Some areas involving business rules for Dangerous Journeys, the Gamma World module, and Lost City of Gaxmoor. But outside of this, the contributions were minor. Ernie was not "into Roleplaying games as much as board games", a direct quote from Gary. I'm measure their contributions in two ways--what they did with Gary under the Trigee banner--in which case guys like Chris Clark and Jon Creffield did a LOT more involved in those endeavors, as well as their general rank in the industry--guys like Frank Mentzer and other did a lot more back in those days, and many other TSR staff have been proven self-publishers or working at other companies. Again, they really didn't make any major efforts into publishing or things like GaryCon until afterwards.</p><p></p><p>As far as "looking favorably" on working in the industry--yes, I'm sure Gary is proud of doing that Kickstarter, as well as GaryCon. However, trademarking the surname Gygax is another matter. I really don't think Gary would approve of doing anything that might be considered an end-run around Gary's own wishes for inheritance of his property. Trademarking the generic Gygax could even prevent the person he gave all his IP to from doing anything--in fact, Gary never trademarked his own name because he was concerned about somebody taking it away like that. I'm sure he would be proud if they used Ernie and Luke Gygax, Gygax Brothers Magazine, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnRTroy, post: 7687545, member: 2732"] You misread my statement. There are three things that Ernie has contributed to. Some areas involving business rules for Dangerous Journeys, the Gamma World module, and Lost City of Gaxmoor. But outside of this, the contributions were minor. Ernie was not "into Roleplaying games as much as board games", a direct quote from Gary. I'm measure their contributions in two ways--what they did with Gary under the Trigee banner--in which case guys like Chris Clark and Jon Creffield did a LOT more involved in those endeavors, as well as their general rank in the industry--guys like Frank Mentzer and other did a lot more back in those days, and many other TSR staff have been proven self-publishers or working at other companies. Again, they really didn't make any major efforts into publishing or things like GaryCon until afterwards. As far as "looking favorably" on working in the industry--yes, I'm sure Gary is proud of doing that Kickstarter, as well as GaryCon. However, trademarking the surname Gygax is another matter. I really don't think Gary would approve of doing anything that might be considered an end-run around Gary's own wishes for inheritance of his property. Trademarking the generic Gygax could even prevent the person he gave all his IP to from doing anything--in fact, Gary never trademarked his own name because he was concerned about somebody taking it away like that. I'm sure he would be proud if they used Ernie and Luke Gygax, Gygax Brothers Magazine, etc. [/QUOTE]
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