[WikiEN-l] fancruft

[Ray Saintonge]

Matt Brown wrote:

>On 7/22/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Of course, as far as I'm concerned I wouldn't be terribly sad if all
>>the articles about non-free fictional works moved to Fictionpedia.
>>Especially the plot summaries, which are really non-free derivative
>>works in themselves, though they generally fall under fair use of
>>course.
>>    
>>
>Plots are generally not copyrightable, although character names may be.
>
Single words or names aren't copyrightable.  Perhaps Perrault might have 
tried with Rumplestilskin, but that was long enough ago that it would 
have gone into the public domain by now. :-)

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