Well, that friend of my sister-in-law's kid watched a harry potter movie and in that movie harry's friends had demon names. So if fan fiction was made into a film, its definitely making money and thus it is copyright infringement. All right, now I understand that phil have other reasons for not putting harry in as character and I do respect his reasons. I'm just very cross that someone from my country went ahead and stole jk rowling's work. According to my knowledge, fan fiction is only legal if its produced free of charge on the net. What this south African writer did is exactly the same as ivan fegundez stealing liam irvan's ideas. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shadow Dragon Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 3:14 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] I'm giving phil the go ahead to create agamewithharryas character
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. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] 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.
