Matt Brown wrote:
On 7/22/06, Anthony wikilegal@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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