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: Copyright infringement on spelling of invented names? Years ago I invented a name for a kingdom/country in my YA fantasy novel, which I am on the verge of self-publishing. At random, I discovered
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: The author allows me to use their (excellent) idea, but I need to paraphrase it. I can't find a good paraphrase. What should I do? I meet an excellent idea and really want to use it. The
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: How can a newbie writer secure a self-written story for him/herself using copyright? I have an idea to write a story. How can I apply copyright to it after it gets written?
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: Is it considered plagiarism to publish a novel that has characters of the same animal species? I am currently working on the last draft of my children's novel. Recently, I found out that several
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: What really is considered as plagiarism? I am currently writing a novel which I noticed is based on ideas from many books that I have read. I noticed that what did I do is get an idea from
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: Is it appropriate for one to use already existing content? Will it be considered copyright infringement if one would use already existing content, for example, a song? Can you be sued for copyright
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: I want to use the premise of a story that I think wasted its potential, can I do this? I have been pondering on a novel idea that would likely utilize a large chunk of a premise of a
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: Copyright issues when using images from a TV show in my book I'm writing an episode guide for a TV show and I think it would be helpful to include a couple of screenshots/images from each
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: Are the Arthurian legends freely available for use? I put a bit of Arthurian fantasy into a short story I wrote. I originally thought that this was perfectly acceptable, as many books do
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: Are fictional town names trademarks or protected intellectual property of their author? If a town name in a popular fictional work is widely associated with a particular fictional work, can the
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: When citing a paragraph in a book on my website, how long can the citation be? I would like to cite a few sentences of a book in my website, and I would like to know if I may run into
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: Is it a copyright infringement if I include a magical newspaper with moving pictures in my novel? I want to add a magical newspaper in my novel. In the newspaper, all the images are moving,
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: In a parody of a short children's story, is copying a couple of lines word-for-word going to present legal problems? I've written a parody of a famous children's book, the original being a
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: Traditional publishing with already copyrigthed content If I establish worldbuilding elements on a blog or service like World Anvil, will I still be able to use those elements in book and get
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: May I copy some paragraphs of other writers as examples? I’m a Spain-based writing tutor and I’m currently working on a writing guide. I’d like to quote well known writers as examples,
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: How to include a software license covering code samples in a book I'm working on a programming book, which will be distributed both electronically and (potentially) in print. It includes many
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: How can I know that I'm not plagiarizing? New to the web. I just recently started to write again. I won a few highschool prizes writing short stories. Around the same time, I began to play
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: Has the idea for my story already been taken? I want to write a story about a place called Kingdom Come, where you can come in but you cannot go (i.e. you are not allowed to leave). Has
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: Do I have to get permission to use a person’s pet’s first name and likeness? I want to start a comic series about my pets living in a universe without humans. This would include their
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: Similar Character So, I had a dream about this demon character named Sin (I physically saw his name in my dream) that goes to church. I wanted to make this into a story, but I feel like
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: How to start writing an autobiography I’m planning to write my autobiography. I don’t know where to start. Please give some tips and tricks to kickstart the project. I know it’s my personal
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: How to protect my unfinished work? I am currently writing a fiction novel. I have about 5 finished chapters. But, since English is not my native language, (it's actually my fourth language)
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: How do you copyright a book if you’re both the author and illustrator? I'm making a book and want to illustrate it too. So do I have to copyright them seperatly or can I copyright them
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: Should I Copyright My Novels Myself or Have My Publisher Do It? I have four thoroughly reviewed novels right now and I am wanting to copyright them before May 2020. But, I am having doubts
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: Republishing a Creative Commons NonCommercial-NoDerivs licenced work for archival purposes I have a 10+ year old 800 page pfd someone wrote but never published and I'd like to publish it (not
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: What is Considered Transformative Use in Fiction Writing? I have been reading some material about E.L. James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series. It seems she originally wrote this novel as
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: Languages in my fantasy story I'm writing a story right now, mostly because I just felt like it. At the moment I don't plan on doing anything fancy with it just keeping it to myself. I just
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: Writing a supernatural book with characters who have supernatural powers that have already been explored in other works? I am in the process of writing a book with many of the characters discovering
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: How does authorship and copyright work in translation? I am a freelance translator, and once received a request from a client saying that they were supposed to translate a chapter of a book,
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: Does receiving donations to give earlier access to chapters in a fan fiction count as copyright infringement? Well long story short I have been writing a fan fiction for a while (The fan fiction
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: Using trademarked content in a professional blog I tried to find similar question, but it seems it haven't been asked, the closest I found was this but it is more specific about screenshots,
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: Use of real company name in fiction: generic, common names I read the very helpful discussion of using brand/company names in fiction (Use of real organization in fiction) and have read other
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: I have two story ideas and I want to know if they're similar enough to other books/movies to be copyright infringing Is a story about the Hindu gods being real inherently copyright infringing
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: George Orwell died over 70 years ago: how does this affect the copyright of translations of his works? From what I understand, since George Orwell died (21 Jan. 1950) slightly over 70 years
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: Copyright issues relating to rewriting news reports Is it legal to rewrite news reports for commercial use? I've noticed the following information, and I'm wondering whether it applies to other
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: Is it legal to use real people in education material? We are doing a game-like app on the topic of literature where we will portray some of the writers with illustrations and animations, also
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: Searching for an author with unpublished fantasy writing for my mobile game I would be extremely grateful for any advice on how to search for or reach an agreement with an author. I'm a solo
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: Can I reference events of a different fictional work in my fictional work? Let's say I'm working on a fantasy series called MyWork, that is set in the present in a small town in the US.
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: What is the purpose of an author stipulating that only 50% of his book can be translated? I recently requested permission of an author to translate one of his books, and permission was granted.
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: Want to publish unpublished work found in an auction storage unit I started buying storage auctions in the middle of this year. In the third one I bought I ran across an unpublished manuscript
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