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

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Lee Passey <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Tue, September 20, 2011 2:02 pm, Brenna Lyons wrote:
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> > 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.
>

Trademark what? Each individual world term, main character name, list of
alien laws, etc.? Do you have any concept how expensive and daunting that
would be? I have worlds that have glossaries of hundreds of words, and those
glossaries expand with each new book. The first eight books in one series
alone has upwards of 60 main characters. For the purposes of writing,
copyright IS the correct hammer for the job.

Brenna
-- 
http://www.brennalyons.com    http://www.facebook.com/brenna.lyons
"Maybe they were counting on my feminine sensibilities to keep me from
killing my little charge. They were wildly mistaken. I could have gleefully
killed the little twerp. I could have smiled and whistled while I did it and
roasted marshmallows on his pyre." MONSTERS OF MYTH


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