Flushing Copyright Law For Fun And Profit!

[sailormac]

First of all, Happy Birthday to brightdreamer and nurissa!

So it seems there's a Twilight fan who's decided to publish a sequel to Breaking Dawn. Without Stephanie Meyer's permission, of course, which makes it fanfic. But the author, who calls herself Lady Sybilla, who has a rather interesting interpretation of copyright law:

Copyright law will only protect the

Comments

[acexkeikai]

BWHAHAHAHAAH Watch her ass being sued.

[nurissa]

Thank yooooou! ^____^

And what an idiot. Verbal, visual or whatever, it's their character in a copyrighted book. Even if it's not copyrighted, your intellectual property is still yours, not something people can just take and use to make money off you. Yeesh. *headdesk* Twilight fans scare me...

[uminohikari]

...*incredibly amused*

[sixteenbynine]

Get the stopwatch. That's about how much time will elapse before the C&D letters arrive.

[greenlion4]

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