The new contracts and licenses which are at the center of our current Gloranthan production efforts make it mandatory that we exercise more control of Glorantha as an intellectual property.
The trademark and copyright attributions are as follows: "Glorantha is a trademark of Chaosium, Inc. Gloranthan material is copyright 1997 [or the year of publication] by [the individual author] and by Greg Stafford. Glorantha is the creation of Greg Stafford, and is used with his permission."
2. Independent Publications Need Approval Independent publications are still very highly encouraged, but now require official approval from Chaosium. We expect to approve the majority of such independent publications, and sell most of them through Wizard's Attic, but now we must approve the final product.
Approval will enable us to ensure that independent publications do not conflict with our own publishing plans.
3. Magazines
Magazines such as TALES OF THE REACHING MOON and, we expect, TRADETALK, are
encouraged to exercise creativity at every level: as periodicals these
magazines do not require Chaosium's approval before publication. To qualify
as a magazine/periodical that does not require pre-approval, the publisher
must take subscriptions and publish at least two issues each year.
4. The Status Quo
We are already working on professional product lines for miniatures games,
fiction, and roleplaying. It is unlikely that we will approve independent
publications containing new systems for such material.
Chaosium has sold the RQ trademark to Avalon Hill. Avalon Hill will no longer publish or reprint any Glorantha material. It is our understanding that periodicals covering RQ/Glorantha should be able to publish whatever they like. Non-periodical publications will require approval from Chaosium to publish Glorantha material and approval from Avalon Hill to publish RQ material.
4. Contact Information
If you have any questions about a specific product (such as a convention book
or Gloranthan game), especially if you are already working on it, you should
contact Rob Heinsoo (currently at BiturianV_at_aol.com) at Chaosium Inc. who
will be in charge of approval.
Sincerely,
Rob Heinsoo
Glorantha Editor
Eric Rowe
Sales & Marketing Director
Chaosium
950 56th Street
Oakland, CA 94608
(510) 547-7681
fax: (510) 547-2651
End of Glorantha Digest V4 #245
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