: Re: How different does a retelling have to be in order to publish it even if the original story is not yet in the public domain? I wrote a 101 Dalmatians retelling, and as far as I know from

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In general, fictional characters are copyright protected. You can't publish a story where Cruella De Vil opens an animal shelter, for example. It doesn't really matter what the work is about, you can't take someone else's well-defined creation of the character's name, description, and demeanor, and use it as your own. You would be leveraging someone else's intellectual property to publicize your own work.
corporate.findlaw.com/intellectual-property/protection-of-fictional-characters.html

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