Legal approach

[Pippin]

Hi, I'm a bit confused about D&D/video games and what you may or may not take from them.


If I were to start a new game with a spell named "Wish" that would be the exact same as the one that can be found on the SRD, will I be sued?
If I were to start a new game with a spell named "Ice Assassin" that would be the exact same as the one that can be found in Frostburn, will I be sued?
If I were to start a new game with a class named "Black Mage" that would be the exact same as the one that can be found in Final Fantasy Tactics, will I be sued?
If I were to start a new game with a class whose clothes and style would be the exact same as the Black Mage class that can be found in Final Fantasy Tactics, will I be sued?
Would you have any good link to point me to regarding these issues?


Thank you so much.

[snowblizz]

We cannot specifically discuss legal advice and any answer to your questions including "maybe" basically ends up being that.

Copyright laws are a confusing mess which ultimately ends up at: is someone who thinks they have a gain to do so going to be suing you and can you afford that.

There is a guy on youtube (he is a lawyer), Leagal Eagle, who does some stuff on copyrightlaw that's worth looking at. It won't specifically answer your questions but you get an idea of the problems with copyright law.

[The Glyphstone]

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