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Free Reign Monsters vs. Iconic Copyrighted Monsters (A COPYRIGHT WAR OF ULTIMATE DESTINY)

VorpyVorpy
edited 2011-05-11 12:12:03 in Media
☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
Recently when I was looking for monsters to add into my bestiary for the RPG I was dicking with, I found this thing. An Eligor. I thought since the Eligor was not being used on any future games, I wanted to check out it's copyright to see if it was free reign to use and Squaresoft would not get butthurt and get into LAWYER WARS about it. One thing that did bug me though was the fact that from the first FF game, and the 12th, they use Piscodemons and Mindflayers, something iconic to D&D. Does Wizards of the Coast know about this? Do they care? Have they addressed it yet? It made me think that maybe there are some creatures that are made by said companies that aren't all "this is property of the company and cannot be used by anyone without explicit permission", like WotC's Beholders, and Squaresoft's Cactuars.

Comments

  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Necrobump of fate.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2011-06-01 01:47:06
    Not just the first FF.  Tactics also had Mind Flayers and (possibly) Piscodemons.  Though at least for Mind Flayers their name was misspelled (as Mind Flare, I think) and I'm wondering now if rather than being just a shitty translation like everything else, was it perhaps a way to avoid copyrights?  I dunno.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    The piscodaemons from FF are wizardlike squid monsters, and the piscodaemons are squidlike monsters with claws. the mindflayers though are nearly the exact same thing from FF and D&D. Are they free reign to use or does WotC not dare touch Square?
  • DYREDYRE
    Hm... neither of those are on this site.

    Which presumably means they are copyrighted.

    So... maybe Square just payed enough royalties or whatever?
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