Re: New Encyclopedia
Keith Henson <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:00 PM, trent shipley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Keith Henson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does Imaginaria stretch far enough to encompass Tom Clancy type novels? > > I haven't read any Tom Clancy so I don't have a bias to share on this > point. I think some of his novels may be science fiction enough to > qualify while others require suspension of disbelief but don't really > have the rupture with mundane reality that imaginaria requires. Debt of Honor (1994) foretold 9/11. So as predictive SF it certainly made the cut. >> Any objection to using the space to actually write short stories or >> novels? ?I.e., put up stuff you are not trying to sell and have no >> intention of selling where people could edit the work. > > No fiction. The intellectual property lawyers hate fan fiction. > Trivia good. Fiction bad. It's your wiki, you set the rules about what you want there. However, I don't see any reason for IP lawyers to get involved in (non derivative) fiction put up under a CC type license. Perhaps you could explain? Keith