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Old 10-02-2013, 05:08 AM   #149
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
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.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is not just inspired by the original. It uses the original text. So it uses the original expression of the ideas.
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