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Originally Posted by Edi
In any case it may pay to be prudent and avoid serious conflicts. Beholder as a name is interesting in that it's actually a word of the English language, so you can't copyright that, but the concept of the floating spherical monster with magic eyes that is called a beholder may in fact be specific enough to be copyrighted.
Mind flayers I'm not sure about, but that could depend a lot on how Lovecraftian their origins are. In Dominions they are mainly called starspawn and it's the same in CoE3. Illithid is a TSR/WOTC name, which appears in Dominions and it is more problematic.
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Mind Flayers are only Lovecraftian in Dominions. In D&D, they're just creepy tentacle people.
But if you can't copyright monsters, then I'd say using mind flayers in-game should be fine.