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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nikolai" data-source="post: 1113622" data-attributes="member: 10130">My opinion:I really don't buy the "if you take all the points together it looks like they have something" arguement. Can people really claim rights over a collection of motifs they collect together from different places? White Wolf's just trying to assert property rights over a loose genre they didn't invent.There's a whole morass of vampire literature, just because both sources  deviates from Dracula in a way that has some similarities doesn't mean one's copied from the other. There's a range of variant literature both before and after Dracula that can be drawn on.The use of terms drawn from noblity (sire, clan), horror (abomination, coven) and blood/bat/romance metaphors (bloods, embrace, torpor) doesn't demonstrate anything. These things have been used by writers again and again, they're obvious extensions of the vampire concept.This isn't a statement on the validity of the suit, I can't comment on US law. But, if this is a just world it will fail. Does anyone think the world would be a better place it lawsuits like this succeeded? Frankly, we could all easily draw up similar documents to the pdf (and in many cases a damn sight more substantial than it) with a copy of Lord of the Rings, Gone with the Wind, a Raymond Chandler novel and respective works inspired by them.nikolai.</blockquote>