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February 14th, 2005 at 12:11 am

Fan fiction

When is it legally safe to circulate or publish fiction based on characters created by someone else? C.E. Petit (”Scrivener’s Error”) has put up a long series of posts over the past month on the question: first, second, sidebar, third, fourth. Part 4 discusses the Marvel multiplayer gaming lawsuit (see Jan. 4) (via Bainbridge).

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