WotC WotC doesn’t own the trademark for Mind Flayer

[Burt Baccara]

I talked to him not a couple months ago, and he does have the rights. He thinks he won’t win in court because he hasn’t pressed it over the years. I think he’s mistaken on that because I don’t think failure to press copyright in the past automatically means he loses it. But as of a couple months ago, he said he still holds the rights.

My conversation with Ray Winnger pretty much backed it up (not Tim’s specific case, but in general)

Copyright has a three-year statute of limitation.

 

[Dausuul]

Copyright has a three-year statute of limitation.

I'm no expert on copyright law, but I'm damn sure copyright lasts longer than three years.

There appears to be a three-year statute of limitations on copyright infringement, but that still puts WotC on the hook for every Monster Manual they've sold in the last three years. And then there's D&D Beyond subs, which I have no idea how you'd even begin to assess.

 

[AnotherGuy]

Oh, link?

Disney Plus’ Willow isn’t canceled, just paused for at least a year, says producer

Jon Kasdan says reports of the show’s death are greatly exaggerated

www.polygon.com

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don’t think failure to press copyright in the past automatically means he loses it.

Not automatically, no, but it very much weakens it.

Really the idea that someone definitely and indisputably owns an IP is plain wrong. there is no black and white, only grey.

 

[Rabulias]

Disney Plus’ Willow isn’t canceled, just paused for at least a year, says producer

Jon Kasdan says reports of the show’s death are greatly exaggerated

www.polygon.com

Eh, i think this is wishful thinking by the executive producer of the show. Disney is not walking back their cancellation waiting to see how the D&D movie performs. I will be very surprised if we see further seasons of Willow, and you can all point and laugh at me if we do.

 

[Jer]

Look, it's been a long few years, but if October no longer exists, I feel like someone would have said something.

In the real world the calendar marches on, but on the Internet (if you're old enough) we've been in Eternal September since 1993.

(Back in the day the internet was mostly academics - September was when the new students would show up with their school accounts and things would be nuts for a while on Usenet until they learned the culture. Then in '93 the major BBS providers like AOL and Delphi became ISPs and, well, that was the year that September never ended.)