On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:10:31 -0500, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:03:06 +0100, Jean-Baptiste
Soufron
<jbsoufron(a)free.fr> wrote:
You can use your addition by itself if you want.
It's not a derived
work in itself, only the combination of the 2 texts is.
Unfortunately this isn't the case.... Check out the numerous cases of
fan fiction that don't use a single word of the copyrighted work, but
have still been ruled to be derived works.
Not because they have been 'contaminated' with the original text once,
but because they are using characters, situations, etcetera from a
copyrighted text. When someone starts claiming copyright on
characters, events etcetera from non-fiction texts Wikipedia can stop
working anyway.
Inspired works are now starting to fall under
copyright protection.
This trend started with the inclusions of translations under the
definition of derivative works and has been expanding since then....
So I guess I should never use a copyrighted book to get my information
for Wikipedia either?
Andre Engels