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Originally Posted by tompe
No. it is about re-mixing. Creating new versions of other works, using other work in a new creative way. Zombies and Jane Austen ought to be a good example of that.
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As already noted, copyright protects original expression of ideas, not the ideas themselves. I don't have the expertise to know exactly where the cut off is, but there I doubt if there would be a problem with someone writing a book about a zombie boy going to a zombie school and being hunted by an evil zombie who wants to be dead forever, it's possible that calling it "Harry Rotter, the boy who died" might be a bit much, but you'd have to speak to your local IP specialist about that.
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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Thank you for your help. It's tiring talking into a headwind.-)
rjb
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Just speak a little louder.
Even the phrase "fan fiction" would have been enough to give me a hint as to what you were talking about.
Fan fiction sits in a curious limbo, but it is interesting to note that copyright doesn't seem to have prevented its proliferation, only from it being exploited for money ... but even that is not entirely true. Wikipedia says:
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The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fan fiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon".
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So it's a little hard to argue that copyright is standing in the way of people creating new work, all it requires is a little effort on the part of the writer - is that asking too much?