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May. 28th, 2007

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Let us imagine that Susan Fan writes a piece of Star Wars fic. In it, Mara Jade decides that marrying Luke is a chump's game and she goes off to found her own school for the Force-strong, possibly recruiting Callista along the way so they can have hot, NC-17 interludes every fifth scene. Let us imagine the main conflict is whether Leia's children will be trained by Uncle Luke, who has a history of always reaching for a bigger Force-hammer, or by Ms. Jade, who used to be brainwashed but is much better now.

Let us further imagine that Susan Fan changes the names, so that the intergalactic republic is in the future, the life-force isn't the Force it's chi, the spunky, cool-headed heroine is Carol River, the husky-voiced lady she approaches to be fellow teacher and new soul mate is Marlynn, the harried galactic political leader is Portia, the school is for Dragon Monks not Jedi Knights, etc., etc.

Perhaps she changes the hair styles, too, but perhaps not.

At this point, Susan Fan has a story that cannot be sued for either infringement of copyright, or tarnishment or dilution of trademark. In fact, it's publishable, and Susan may, in turn, register copyright for Carol, Marlynn, Portia and the rest of them.

What does this tell us about the precise things over which an author may assert ownership? A hint: it isn't the ideas.

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Fic post from my archive.

After Frost

Life gets back to normal for Touya. Drama with Fluff, I-3

Between his own need to decide on a career within the next year and the fuss of Sakura's first year of high school, Touya really didn't think the family needed to deal with a Portentous Letter from Hiiragizawa. But that was, unfortunately, what was sitting on the table when he and Yuki arrived, on Saturday.

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Fic post from my archive.

Polarization: Part One

Watari finally succeeds in becoming a woman, and Tatsumi finally finds out why he wanted to so badly. And why Enma is so upset about it. Drama with Romance and Porn, I-4

Shrieks of joy coming out of Watari Yutaka's lab caused wise Ministry employees to take swift cover.

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