Re: [HoE] Re: Copyright

["B.D. Flory" <bflory@frontiernet.net>]

> Hm. Evidently some names can be copywritten. When FRPG started putting
out
> the Doomtown card game, they wouldn't use the term Pinkerton, as it was a
> copywritten (or was it trademarked?) term and they didn't want to risk
> getting sued. Note the lack of the term Pinkerton in HOE (though, 'the
> Agency' is mentioned).
> 
> Marshall Paddy

False analogy.  The Pinkerton organization is a real corporate entity,
while the Reckoning is simply an event (albeit a large, long-term event) in
a fictitious game world.  FRPG wasn't worried about PEG suing them, they
were worried about the Pinkertons themselves.  PEG apparently decided that
the concern was a valid one, and have gone the Agency route in all of their
more recent supplements.

B.D. "too busy for a nickname today" Flory