Wizards of the Coast Contact Info Legal Corner Welcome to the Legal Corner of Wizards of the Coast's website. A copyright seeks to promote literary and artistic creativity by giving the author the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute or display his or her works, and to create derivative works, such as translations or expansion set. Copyrights protect particular expressions of ideas, not the ideas themselves. Wizards of the Coast's pending patents , trademarks , trade dress , trade secrets and copyrighted material constitute its intellectual property . Wizards of the Coast, Inc.'s intellectual property is being registered worldwide.
Copyrights give the owner the right to control and protect use of the material.
The basic test of trademark and trade dress infringement is to ask if there is a likelihood of confusion as to source, sponsorship or affiliation of the product or service in question. These cards must be selected from a card list provided by Wizards of the Coast. A fee will be charged to cover the cost of providing these images. No other card imagery may be used. Colors must be represented by letters, words or other identifiers that are not WOTC property.