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When "Nobody" Creates a Comic Book Character
Gerry Conway, a comic book writer whose extensive career includes creating many characters for DC Comics--some of whom currently appear, in altered form, on television series based on DC superheroes--posted "Who Created Caitlin Snow on #TheFlash? According to @DCComics, Nobody" this week on his Tumblr ( Read more... ) -
LiveJournal Victorious!
Kudos to LiveJournal and ohnotheydidnt!
Photo agency Mavrix, who were called a "copyright troll" during a lawsuit against Buzzfeed, just lost a lawsuit against LiveJournal over photos posted on OhNoTheyDidnt, one of LiveJournal's remaining successful communities. ONTD, as it's commonly known, has nine moderators, including one who is also a LiveJournal employee ( Read more... ) -
SOPA is not back.
Crossposted from FYeahCopyright on tumblr:
nameless-traveler recently posted concerns that "The Obama administration announced that it will be bringing back a piece of SOPA legislation that would make streaming copyrighted material a felony" and linked to a petition against SOPA at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-2013/LMzMVrQF
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The Universal vs Smash Porn Company "50 Shades" infringement suit has settled!
We've been blogging about it on a new tumblr at fyeahcopyright, and found out this morning that the case has settled!
Our analysis of the claims Smash made in trying to defend their actions is here.
An update about the settlement is here.
More thoughts on disclaimers are hereThe best bit from all of this, we think, has been Universal saying this ( Read more... ) -
Images for Fic Banners/Manips?
What would be the rules involved in using images in banners/manips? I know that unless you took the image yourself, it's copyright to somone else, but could any random image still legally be used if no profit is being made on the manip? Do most people just use stock images? -
Fic from deleted journals, fair game?
Hello, I'm new and I have an issue/question. Recently an author deleted their fic from LJ and FF.net by deleting their accounts. The author cannot be reached. I've saved said fic as a PDF and don't know if I can distribute it ( Read more... ) -
AUs with Names Changed
I've been wondering- what would be the legal situation if one were to write an AU fanfiction taking place either in the real world or a world of the fan's creation (or maybe an in-verse fic for a series that takes place in the real world), and then change the names?
Could they then claim it was original? Could they sell it as their own work? Would ( Read more... ) -
publishing a Sherlock Holmes pastiche without breaking copyright law?
Due to the excessive spamming of this entry, I am disabling comments.
Even though most of the Canon is in the public domain (except the Casebook), the characters of Holmes, Watson, et. al. are protected by copyright. At least, I think they are, but it's very hard to tell because the Web site that purports to be the Conan Doyle Literary Estate ( Read more... ) -
Links to material
I am an admin at the Supernatural Wiki, which is a wiki site for the TV show Supernatural that covers both the show and the fandom. For each fan convention we have an entry where fans link to their reports, pictures and videos taken during the Conventions. Many conventions have prohibitions on videotaping, but it happens anyway and is usually ( Read more... )