WARCRAFTER - While I don't know anything more about your work than what you mentioned in your post, I don't think (based on what you said in it) that you have anything to worry about. Disney didn't invent gargoyles or creatures that look gargoyle-ish; it only produced a specific interpretation of a "gargoyle" species. Since you mentioned that your "gargoyle-ish" creatures are evil, they clearly aren't much like the gargoyles of Disney (except maybe Demona, Thailog, and Coldsteel); the physical description that you gave for them is of a sort that's been frequently used in fantasy stories. So I don't think you'd have anything to fear about copying Disney's series, any more than if you were, say, writing about King Arthur and Merlin, Odin and the eye that he gave up for a drink from Mimir's well, or about characters and elements from Shakespeare's plays (as long as your take on those was distinct enough from the "Gargoyles" interpretation of them).
Todd Jensen
posted @ Tue, Feb 9, 2010 7:21:05 am EST from 4.244.210.194
