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Old 10-02-2016, 05:05 PM   #49
nick_coffin
 
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Default Re: GURPS as a convention game

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Originally Posted by RogerBW View Post
Not "legal", perhaps, but the Men in Black have been actively discouraged from doing so. One example was the combination of Star Munchkin and The Good, The Bad and the Munchkin, which was often run under a title suggestive of a popular single-season SF TV series from 2002-2003 - which could be taken to imply that SJGames held a game licence for that series, which is not only not true, but could impair negotiations in that direction.
The behavior being discouraged isn't the same. What is being described above is using a licensed name for a game that never had the license. SJGames never had a Munchkin Firefly license, so that is clearly infringement of intellectual property.

Hellboy, Powered by GURPS was produced with a valid license. Even though the license has reverted, it is still perfectly legal (and not discouraged by SJGames) to run games using that book. What you can't do is sell new books or source material set in a licensed world that you no longer have the license for.
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