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What is Saijo City?

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),

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Added by Eric Rice on August 8, 2007 at 5:23pm — No Comments

Inaugural Post

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I have a website (http://www.spacylittlecowgirl.net), but it's rather outdated at this point.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

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Added by Florence Chan on August 7, 2007 at 12:15pm — No Comments

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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Added by John Buckley on July 4, 2007 at 11:54am — No Comments

Welcome to the Infocalypse

I've migrated the content from the Saijo City site (saijocity.com) and also from Facebook, where I originally had tried to setup a workgroup for Saijo stuff. I think this ning.com site will work much better. There's a lot more content now.

Basically, part of the Saijo City project is community/collaborative driven. We all are in this together, thinking, working, writing out loud. Parts of it are as much yours as it is mine. :)

To use another fantasy world as an example, let me… Continue

Added by Eric Rice on July 3, 2007 at 9:51pm — 2 Comments