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Old 07-05-2012, 06:00 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Writing a new story using someone else's characters is just plain and simple copyright infringement, unless you're doing it with the copyright holder's permission, or the characters are in the public domain.
The implications of that are going to get really interesting when the public domain effectively no longer exists. I wonder if Disney would be singing another tune about copyright if all of their derivative works were ruled as infringement.
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