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Post by mushroom on Jan 2, 2003 14:21:01 GMT -5
What if you have a derivative work that features characters/settings copyrighted by several completely different people (a crossover fic)? What if you followed the adventures of Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins wandering around Neopia? Who would that piece be copyright to--Warner Bros. or whoever, Tolkien's family (or whoever it is that owns his copyrights now), Neopets.com, all three equally, or whichever seems to be most used?
(Don't bother answering if you don't want to...my hypothetical questions get annoying for most people after the first few I have.)
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 2, 2003 14:45:31 GMT -5
What if you have a derivative work that features characters/settings copyrighted by several completely different people (a crossover fic)? What if you followed the adventures of Harry Potter and Frodo Baggins wandering around Neopia? Who would that piece be copyright to--Warner Bros. or whoever, Tolkien's family (or whoever it is that owns his copyrights now), Neopets.com, all three equally, or whichever seems to be most used? (Don't bother answering if you don't want to...my hypothetical questions get annoying for most people after the first few I have.) This is VERY hypothetical because something like this could NEVER get published on Neopets. If this were to happen the Neopets staff would probably cover their faces and pretend they didn't have anything to do with it. LoL, Stoney couldn't even put a picture of Pikachu into one of his comics. . . |
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Post by twayblade807 on Jan 3, 2003 3:03:06 GMT -5
LoL, Stoney couldn't even put a picture of Pikachu into one of his comics. . . Pikachu? Oh yeah, that reminds me, in the Gallery of Evil there's some sort of creature with weird horns (looks a little bit like Darigan) eating another creature with a Pikachu tail. And ears.. In the Editorial, or somewhere (again, forgot where), Donna insisted that it wasn't a Pikachu.  But what else could it have been?! (The URL: www.neopets.com/evil.phtmlRun your mouse over the book thing at the beginning of the page ... the book should open, showing a picture of the Darigan-like head eating a Pikachu. Heh.) |
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Post by sara on Jan 3, 2003 3:22:27 GMT -5
In the Editorial, or somewhere (again, forgot where), Donna insisted that it wasn't a Pikachu. But what else could it have been?! Oh yes it is! Back when they had the Lenny Trivia, there was a question which asked "What is the --- at the entrance to the Gallery of Evil eating?". One of the options was "Pikachu" and if you clicked on that one, you'd get a lenny saying "Yay - correct" Donna's probably covering their butt from a lawsuit from pokemon - which is OK, I've done similar things in the past. |
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Post by oddhatter on Jan 3, 2003 17:16:50 GMT -5
Donna's probably covering their butt from a lawsuit from pokemon - which is OK, I've done similar things in the past. Yeah, but it might be arguable that it is parody, and protected under the "fair use" clause(criticism, parody and education). Which is why MAD Magazine is still around...they may be sued for slander, but probably not for violating copyright law. But then the Pikachu thing is probably not too defendable. It is funny, though. |
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Jan 3, 2003 19:26:39 GMT -5
Yeah, but it might be arguable that it is parody, and protected under the "fair use" clause(criticism, parody and education). Which is why MAD Magazine is still around...they may be sued for slander, but probably not for violating copyright law. But then the Pikachu thing is probably not too defendable. It is funny, though. Funny what the staff has made of it, you mean. . . |
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But what else could it have been?!