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I’ve been fishing around today, looking at the Chaosium PDF sale, a few new Lovecraft boardgames from other companies, and this and that and it occurred to me; "Who, if anyone, actually has the right to Lovecraft’s IP?"

Arkham House would lead you to believe that they do, Chaosium would seem to claim they have the game rights. Still I see other companies producing Mythos content witho9ut either of their blessing and they seem to be going along happilly free of litigation from anyone.

So if the Lovecraft IP is essentially open source now, how are companies getting away with saying they have sole rights? If not then why are these companies going after those ignoring their hold on the IP to protect themselves financially? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me and what research I’ve done hasn’t really given me any sort of clear answer.

Hm…

Addendum: What about the movie rights? I need to go back but I didn’t remember seeing any ‘Thanks to Arkham House’ in the credits for Re-Animator.