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Originally Posted by HarryT
I honestly don't understand why you think that copyright law prevents this: it doesn't. If reading Joanne Rowling's books gives you the inspiration to write your own book about boy wizards, then you are entirely free to do so. All that copyright law says is that you can't call your wizard "Harry Potter" or directly copy Ms. Rowling's story. Other than that, you are completely free to write whatever you wish.
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That's not entirely true. If all I wanted to do was say use a magical sorting hat to divide up students I'd probably be facing a lawsuit. Haryr potter added to the culture, I don't want to remake it but i might want to make use of some bits. Niven's ringworld is a wonderful playground it has been years why not let other people play there freely? For that matter how would Ms Rowling be harmed if someone wrote a story about Dumbledore's first day at hogwarts? One would assume she could do the same and outsell the competition and if she couldn't why wouldthere still not be room for both?
I know the reason we don't allow this. I know that just transforming someone's book into a film or an audiobook is not cool during the copyright period. But the monopoly is too strong and too long.
If you haven't noticed I'm the MODERATE in this argument. I'm asking for some sanity in these laws. But you know what, Omk3 and Moejoe are right, if you're in it for the money then it's probably the wrong buisness. The money from copyright protection can leave someone with the time to create more but if the goal isn't creating then why not become plumber? I'm not talking about journalists or technical writers, I'm talking about novelists.