Well, here's a boiled down version of Lovecraft copyright stuff: http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/H.P.Lovecraft_copyright_status
The thing with Lovecraft is, because he encouraged other writers to play in his sandbox while he was alive, unless someone is doing heavy plot-borrowing from specific stories, anything is fair game fiction-wise. Without realizing it, Lovecraft was one of the pioneers of the creative commons concept. It's one of the main reasons why his work has been so influential.
Chaosium gets pissy if people use "Cthulhu" or "The Call of Cthulhu" in gaming because they've legally peed on the "use in gaming" tree, and movies have some occasional problems because of the way movies work, but for ordinary fiction it's pretty open.
In addition to that, because the "Cats of Ulthar" was published in 1920 and anything prior to 1923 is in the public domain everywhere, stuff set in the Dreamlands shouldn't even remotely be an issue.
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Date: 2010-08-24 01:58 am (UTC)The thing with Lovecraft is, because he encouraged other writers to play in his sandbox while he was alive, unless someone is doing heavy plot-borrowing from specific stories, anything is fair game fiction-wise. Without realizing it, Lovecraft was one of the pioneers of the creative commons concept. It's one of the main reasons why his work has been so influential.
Chaosium gets pissy if people use "Cthulhu" or "The Call of Cthulhu" in gaming because they've legally peed on the "use in gaming" tree, and movies have some occasional problems because of the way movies work, but for ordinary fiction it's pretty open.
In addition to that, because the "Cats of Ulthar" was published in 1920 and anything prior to 1923 is in the public domain everywhere, stuff set in the Dreamlands shouldn't even remotely be an issue.