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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

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. :)

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