[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Fantasy nations in contrib/nations

[Daniel Markstedt <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-10-21, at 19.09, Christian Knoke wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:42:05PM +0200, Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > Tolkien-derived work is big business these days...
> >
> > "Frodo Baggins", "Sauron" etc are indeed trademarked, but only for use
> > on printed matter, toys etc. Ought to fall under 'Fair use' in 
> > Freeciv.
> It's about trademarks *and* copyright. For example, if an author of a 
> book
> invents a complex fantasy nation, then not a single name, but the 
> whole set
> of names, landscapes, and goodies may very well be copyrighted.
Yes, to be safe we should detach all fictional nations based on 
literary works from the main release and perhaps create a fictional 
nations add-on instead.
> Copyright also is big (political) business these days. It's going to 
> change.
> And it's difficult because we need to go conform with copyright law of 
> *any*
> state.
>
> Christian
Wouldn't it suffice to conform to the copyright laws of the country 
where the servers hosting us is located?
Daniel