Question: What do the following have in common? The Death Star, Hogwarts, USS Enterprise, Gotham City
Answer: They are locations, settings, backdrops— all part of a larger body of respective work– that are the copyrighted intellectual property of their creators.
Say you wanted to create derivative work, say, a novel or video game or drawing, and place it in those locations, technically you can’t. You *can* if you consider fan fiction (’fanfic’ for short),
Posted by Eric Rice on August 8, 2007 at 5:23pm
Obligatory? Perhaps not.
But I might as well get some use out of this thing.
My name is Florence Chan. I'm an illustrator, graphic designer, student and developer, with interests in comics, film, gaming and the Metaverse (wherein I work and play).
I have a website (http://www.spacylittlecowgirl.net), but it's rather outdated at this point. Periodic art updates occur o
Posted by Florence Chan on August 7, 2007 at 12:15pm
According to the French social theorist Paul Virilio, we are living inside an ever expanding series of psychic, optical and auditory ‘accidents’. The spectral world of cyberspace is overlaying itself upon
the world we once thought we recognized concretely. Suddenly,
everything has become subjective, even reality.
Pontius Pilate once asked, “What is truth?” He meant it to illustrate his belief that “truth” was not a tangible commodity, merely
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