Re: Lovecraft
31 Jan 95 11:09:04 GMT
I can't comment on this Lovecraft stuff specifically, but I know
every discussion of copyrighted material on the Net always brings up a
lot of misinformed speculation over the nature of copyright. For
example, people often get trademarks and copyright confused, and say
things like "this word is copyrighted." (you can't copyright a word,
though you can acquire a trademark on it) Or people assume that
copyright violation is OK if it's not for profit. (again false. You're
less likely to be hassled if it's not for profit, but it's still
illegal to mess about with someone else's copyrighted material)
Anyway, I'm not saying that's what's necessarily happened here, but I
think anyone interested in creating a work even loosely based upon the
works of another would do well to check out the copyright and
trademark FAQs. Take a look at Brad Templeton's "10 big myths about
copyright" draft FAQ, recently posted to a number of groups including
misc.legal.computing.
- Neil K.
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