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  2. Legal issues with fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    OTW's position is that fan fiction and other fan labor products constitute copyright fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107 because they add "new meaning and messages to the original" work, [37] and thus fall under the exemption to U.S. copyright law the Supreme Court defined in Campbell [38] and which was later revisited and followed in Suntrust. [39]

  3. Copyright protection for fictional characters - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, copyright protection did not prevail. The holding in Warner Bros. case came to be known as the Sam Spade Test; this approach does not allow for copyright protection if the character is a “mere chessman in the game of storytelling.” On the other hand, if the character is central to the story, then it will be copyrightable.

  4. Copyright symbol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by (a circled capital letter "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings.

  5. Fictitious entry - Wikipedia

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    It was intended as a copyright trap, as the text of the book was distributed electronically and thus easy to copy. David Pogue, author of several books offering tips and tricks for computer users, deliberately placed a bogus tip in one of his books as a way of catching plagiarism. The fake tip, which purported to make a rabbit appear on the ...

  6. Fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...

  7. Copyright notice - Wikipedia

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    The copyright notice must also contain the year in which the work was first published (or created), and the name of the copyright owner, which may be the author (including the legal author/owner of a work made for hire), one or more joint authors, or the person or entity to whom the copyright has been transferred.

  8. Copyright - Wikipedia

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    The proper copyright notice for sound recordings of musical or other audio works is a sound recording copyright symbol (℗, the letter P inside a circle, Unicode U+2117 ℗ SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT), which indicates a sound recording copyright, with the letter P indicating a "phonorecord".

  9. Attribution (copyright) - Wikipedia

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    Creative Commons license symbol for attribution. Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition of the author requiring attribution while directly quoting portions of work created by that author. [1] [2]