07-27-2010, 04:22 AM
Sure.
General understanding of copyright law is usually pretty blue-eyed.
Basically, whenever something has a real world base, you can use it whenever you want.
What you cannot do is create an object that bears the danger of being mistaken for the other.
But that is a subject of interpretation; all I can say is that I would be very, very careful in your place.
In this context, you should maybe know that agreements exist between all the big game companies that make sure stuff like this doesn't happen; that's one reason why Blizzard got licenses by both Games Workshop and TSR when they did their Warcraft games.
(IIRC, Warcraft III was actually written based on the OGL/SRD. That's why we have Illithids and Yuanti there.)
General understanding of copyright law is usually pretty blue-eyed.
Basically, whenever something has a real world base, you can use it whenever you want.
What you cannot do is create an object that bears the danger of being mistaken for the other.
But that is a subject of interpretation; all I can say is that I would be very, very careful in your place.
In this context, you should maybe know that agreements exist between all the big game companies that make sure stuff like this doesn't happen; that's one reason why Blizzard got licenses by both Games Workshop and TSR when they did their Warcraft games.
(IIRC, Warcraft III was actually written based on the OGL/SRD. That's why we have Illithids and Yuanti there.)