Re: Re: will everyone concerned about copyright please read this

"Lee Passey" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.ebook-community
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, September 20, 2011 2:02 pm, Brenna Lyons wrote:

> If an author creates a world and
> characters, he or she may still be writing in that world 20 years
> later. He or she may be setting up gaming rights or movie rights near
> the end of that time period, based on the audience built over decades
> of writing in it. ... writers often continue to work in the created world,
> with the same or connected characters, etc.

Why can these concerns not be addressed by proper application of trademark
law? There are lots of tools in the law's toolbelt -- its seems a bit
ineffective to me to insist on using a crescent wrench to hammer on this
particular nail.




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