On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:10:31 -0500, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:03:06 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Soufron jbsoufron@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