Editing TSR, Inc. (section)

==Business disputes==
{{See also|Dungeons & Dragons controversies#Business disputes at TSR}}
After its initial success faded, the company turned to legal defenses of what it regarded as its [[intellectual property]]. In addition, there were several legal cases brought regarding who had invented what within the company and the division of royalties, including several lawsuits against Gygax.<ref name="believer">{{cite journal | last = La Farge | first = Paul | title = Destroy All Monsters | journal = [[The Believer Magazine]] |date=September 2006 | url = http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920141500/http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge| url-status = live |archive-date=2008-09-20}}</ref> This included the company threatening to sue individuals supplying game material on websites.<ref>[http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/rec.games.frp.dnd/Copyright Complang.tuwien.ac.at]</ref> <!-- In the mid-1990s, this led to frequent use of the nickname "T$R" in discussions on RPG-related Internet [[mailing lists]] and [[Usenet]], as the company was widely perceived as attacking its customers.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} -->

In 1984, there was an incident involving [[Lucasfilm]] that led to a legend that TSR had trademarked the term "[[Nazism|Nazi]]". TSR published a supplement for the [[The Adventures of Indiana Jones Role-Playing Game|''Indiana Jones'' RPG]], ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark Adventure Pack]]'', in which some figures were marked with "Nazi™". This trademark notation was because of a list of trademarked character names supplied by Lucasfilm's legal department; they had indiscriminately marked all figures with a trademark symbol, and the Nazi figures were likewise marked accidentally.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Laws | first = Robin D. | author-link = Robin Laws | date = August 2007 | title = 40 Years of Gen Con | publisher = [[Atlas Games]] | pages = 139 | isbn = 978-1-58978-097-2 |quote=MATT FORBECK: ... the last copy of the ''Indiana Jones'' roleplaying games. ... It actually has one of the legendary counters in it that reads 'Nazi™.' Which apparently was not TSR's idea, but Lucasfilm insisted that everything that appeared in the game have a "TM" next to it.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rpg.net/columns/advanced-designers-and-dragons/advanced-designers-and-dragons44.phtml |title=Advanced Designers & Dragons #44: The Top 10 Infamous RPGs |last=Appelcline |first=Shannon |date= February 2, 2021 |website=[[RPGnet]] |access-date=October 28, 2022 }}</ref>