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Old 07-04-2012, 07:40 AM   #107
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Originally Posted by Belfaborac View Post
But isn't Wicked simply fan-fiction derived from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
Well, yes and no because:

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The Copyright status of the Oz books effects their use by non-canonical authors, imitators, and creators of fan fiction.

All of the books of L. Frank Baum have passed out of copyright protection and entered the public domain; their plots and characters are available for general use. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, entered the public domain in 1956. The firm of Reilly and Lee, the publisher of all of the other "Famous Forty" Oz books, was able to issue its first edition of the original book only in that year. Baum's other thirteen Oz books entered the public domain between 1960 and 1986.
And the point of what I'm saying has to do primarily with the legality of it.
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