Re: [HoE] Legal Questions

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

At 05:06 PM 1/7/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi there.
>
>A friend and I have begun to plan a really great Hell on Earth website, but
>we want to do it so that we can get a little reimbursement for our ordeals.
>In other words, we want to have banners on the pages. Of course, I want to
>be totally okay on the legal side of this. It is going to be our own
>content, and we will probably accept submissions from others.

I don't know of any legal complications for putting banners on your site.
Me, I loathe the things, but I suppose they are a necessary evil. TANSTAAFL.

>Also, we were planning on registering the domain name - www.wasters.com. Is
>there any trademark/copyright on "wasters"?

Somebody... please forgive me, I've forgotten who, and it was only just
last week... registered deadlands.com or something similar as a domain
name, and was offering to let other people use it for their websites. You
could create "deadlands.wasters.com". Hopefully someone will chime in and
provide more information than I can... and I apologize for my short term
memory.

I don't know of any trademarks on Wasters, so you're probably safe there. 

>Let me know. I'd like to know that we are in the clear and what we can do to
>stay that way. We hope this site will really support HOE gamers - so maybe
>down the road, once we get going, you folks can do somethings with us.

PEG's been pretty easygoing as far as permission and such. Just make sure
you don't use any of their copyrighted text from any of their books. They
don't seem to mind us fans using their logos and certain images (marshall
stars, huckster, and the occaisonal wendigo), but just about everybody
sticks some disclaimers down at the bottom of the page to acknowledge PEG's
trademarks, logos, copyrights and so on.