Welcome to the Laelith Open Licence

The Laelith Open Licence defines how you can use, modify, and share the content and the trademark of the Laelith Intellectual Property for both personal and commercial purposes.

Undertanding the Pieces

There are three main components to distinguish in the Laelith work:

  • The Intellectual Property is the core content created collectively by the Laelith authors and contributors since 1985, including the names, settings, characters, stories and everything related to Laelith that was not individually copyrighted by an author. This content is available under the Laelith Open Licence as a CC-BY 4.0 license.
  • The Trademark, i.e. the “Laelith” name, which is also part of the Open Licence but subject to some restrictions and conditions - read the Laelith Open Licence page for more details.
  • The texts and illustrations written by the authors, artists and contributors, especially the ones in the core book of the BBE edition published in French in 2020. These are NOT part of the Laelith Intellectual Property and are therefore NOT covered by the Laelith Open Licence. By default, they are copyrighted unless they were made explicitly available under CC-BY 4.0 or similar by their authors. See the Texts and Illustrations page for details.

For example, it is fine to write a book or an adventure set in Laelith using the Intellectual Property and the Trademark (provided you comply with the licence conditions), for example telling about the God-King, the Thousand Flowers or the Lakeshoe Terrace. However, you cannot copy/paste some texts or illustrations from the core book without permission from their authors, unless they were made explicitly available under CC-BY 4.0 or similar in a separate manner.

Resources

  • The Laelith Open Licence: read it carefully
  • Authors: this is the page you should link to for attribution purposes when using the Laelith Open Licence
  • Texts and Illustrations: this page gathers the texts and illustrations that were explicitly made available under CC-BY 4.0 or similar by their authors. All other texts and illustrations are deemed copyrighted by default.

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