[DGD] Trademark/copyright concern

[Shentino]

The "frobozz" part is a default description autosent for any "looks"
to objects with nil ldesc

On 4/19/07, Noah Gibbs <noah_gibbs at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  The phrases you use here are short enough that it's quite reasonable to
> assume fair use, though you might want to be polite and put somewhere (online
> help?) some kind of nod to InfoCom for rocking :-)
>
>  If you were going to excerpt something longer, it would become a gray area,
> and depend on things like whether you were charging money or otherwise behaving
> in a commercial way.
>
>  Also, it would depend if you do it a few times, which is probably fine, or
> all over.  The basic guideline is that you're allowed to refer to such things,
> but you can't make them a significant part of your work or it becomes a
> derivative work, and thus violates their copyright.
>
> --- Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of any trademarks/copyrights affecting the following
> > bits of text?
> >
> > Frobozz Magic Co. (zork)
> > You are in a maze of little twisty passages (zork)
> > Yendor (nethack)
> >
> > If so, what must I do to use them, if that's possible?
> >
> > Maybe I'm being a little paranoid, but I'd really hate it if my shiny
> > new mud ran afoul of the law.
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