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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8885475" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>Yes it is. IP means "intellectual property". The main forms of IP that I'm familiar with are copyright, industrial designs, patents, and trademarks.</p><p></p><p>Product Identity is a concept created under contract, by the OGL. Some Product Identity is trademarks. Not all of it is. Some of it is copyrighted. Not all of it is.</p><p></p><p>And if you actually read the 5e SRD - which you can easily do here <<a href="https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf" target="_blank">https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf</a>> - you will see that on the first page it identifies those parts of it which are declared to be Product Identity. (An example is "umber hulk", which is found on pp 149 and 260 of the SRD, but is not OGC because designated on p 1 as Product Identity. I don't believe that "umber hulk" is a trademark; and while the phrase itself may be copyrighted, I have doubts that a story about a giant tunnelling insect-headed monster with hypnotic eyes would infringe any WotC copyright - though on these points I'll see if [USER=463]@S'mon[/USER] is able to offer a second opinion.)</p><p></p><p>Are you a lawyer, or legally trained? My impression is that you are not. My profession is teaching law, including private law but not intellectual property. I have researched on some aspects of IP law, however.</p><p></p><p>[USER=6704184]@doctorbadwolf[/USER] started this thread get actual information about how the SRD belongs to WotC from a legal point of view, and what bits of it are copyrighted. Your posts are not helping, because they are full of errors.</p><p></p><p>EDITed to add: My home jurisdiction is Australia, which means my main expertise is in Australian and English law.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8885475, member: 42582"] Yes it is. IP means "intellectual property". The main forms of IP that I'm familiar with are copyright, industrial designs, patents, and trademarks. Product Identity is a concept created under contract, by the OGL. Some Product Identity is trademarks. Not all of it is. Some of it is copyrighted. Not all of it is. And if you actually read the 5e SRD - which you can easily do here <[URL]https://media.wizards.com/2016/downloads/SRD-OGL_V1.1.pdf[/URL]> - you will see that on the first page it identifies those parts of it which are declared to be Product Identity. (An example is "umber hulk", which is found on pp 149 and 260 of the SRD, but is not OGC because designated on p 1 as Product Identity. I don't believe that "umber hulk" is a trademark; and while the phrase itself may be copyrighted, I have doubts that a story about a giant tunnelling insect-headed monster with hypnotic eyes would infringe any WotC copyright - though on these points I'll see if [USER=463]@S'mon[/USER] is able to offer a second opinion.) Are you a lawyer, or legally trained? My impression is that you are not. My profession is teaching law, including private law but not intellectual property. I have researched on some aspects of IP law, however. [USER=6704184]@doctorbadwolf[/USER] started this thread get actual information about how the SRD belongs to WotC from a legal point of view, and what bits of it are copyrighted. Your posts are not helping, because they are full of errors. EDITed to add: My home jurisdiction is Australia, which means my main expertise is in Australian and English law. [/QUOTE]
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