If I remember right, last time I checked on fanfiction.net there were over 100000 fanfics just in the category of Harry Potter alone. It'd technically only be copyright infringement if you were making money off of the project, so if that guy in South Africa is charging money for his fanfiction, then its against copyright law. But if its just a bonified fanfiction, disclaimer in tact, its perfectly ok. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a gamewithharryas character
> > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > Thanks phil. > I learnt something new today. So if I understand the members' correctly, > the south African harry potter stories which are different from the > original jk rowling books is fan fiction and there's nothing wrong with > fan fiction? > I didn't mean to intimidate you, you have your reasons for keeping the > character sarah and I do understand it clearly. > I understand your reasons completely, and also the fact that harry have > to find voldemort's horcruxes, it won't make sense for harry to > explore the castle. He already knows the castle very well, sarah > doesn't so it adds more meaning to the game if the character doesn't > know the castle. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Phil Vlasak > Sent: 09 May 2007 02:31 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a game > withharryas character > > Hi Nicol, > I thought about doing a game with Harry Potter as the main character but > did > not do it for several reasons. > 1. I wanted to base it on exploring the Hogwarts castle and when Harry > is at > the school, so are about a thousand students and teachers. > Electronic Arts has the budget to record 1,500 different voices for > their > Harry Potter game but I do not. > That is why the game occurs during the Summer Holidays so there would > be > less work in creating it. > 2. I thought the way I finally did the game would be closer to fan > fiction > than ripping off the Electronic Arts sounds so I did not use their > sounds or > anything for the Sarah game. > 3. I wanted to make a game exploring Hogwarts but since it would be very > > close to Shades of Doom, I made it different by having a female rather > than > a mail character and by making the game less of a killing spree than an > exploration game that is rare in the blind game arena. > 4. I decided on having a female American as the main character since > Sarah > agreed to record the script and no teenage British boy did. > Phil > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:32 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create a game with > harryas character > > >> >> NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice >> which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf >> >> ---- >> Phil, my friend, go ahead and create a game with harry and friends as >> characters if you wish. You don't need to be afraid of getting into > hot >> water for copyright infringement. Let me proof my statement. Someone >> from south Africa went and wrote his own harry potter books using > some >> content of jk rowling. My colleague told me that harry wade his way >> through a rose garden with a sword. The rowling books proofs this > wrong >> as harry only used a sword to kill the basilisk. My sister-in-law told >> me that her friend's kid watched harry potter movies and that > harry's >> friends's names is the names of demons. The harry potter books from jk >> rowling once again proofs this wrong as the weesley children, Neville >> longbottom and hermien was harry's only friends. So this is why I > feel >> so strong about it. If its too much work for you to change the >> character to harry and his friends, then I understand if you prefer > not >> to do it but if you are only afraid to get into hot water, my friend, >> there's no reason to be afraid. You just tell the person that >> approaches you, that someone from south africa commited bigger >> copyright infringement than you for he wrote his own harry potter > story. >> If you prefer not to use harry and friends as characters because of > the >> fact that he is after voldemort's horcruxes, I do understand it, but > the >> point that I just wanted to make is: Phil doesn't need to be afraid of >> getting into hot water because an unknown dood from south africa has >> commited bigger copy right infringement than phil. >> If I find out who did that, I will report him to Joanne rowling. >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > >> visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. 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