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  2. Legal issues with fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    Noteworthy in regard to the acceptance of fan fiction is Eric Flint, who has set up a formal site for the submission of fan fiction into his canon in the 1632 series at Baen's Bar and has to date (March 2015) published 58 issues of The Grantville Gazette in electronic form and six in book form. These feature fan fiction and fan non-fiction ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Copyright protection for fictional characters - Wikipedia

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    In India, recourse can be had to trademark law which recognises that fictional characters enjoy goodwill, and provides relief for cases of ‘character merchandising’. ’. Character merchandising has been defined as involving the exploitation of fictional characters by licensing these fictional characters in the case of Star India Private Limited vs Leo Burnett (India) Private L

  5. Remix culture - Wikipedia

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    Fan fiction is a written, remixed fiction that draws on the characters of the writer's fandom, in order to tell the fan fiction writer's own story, or their version of the original story. [66] Remix Culture relies on creators taking one work and repurposing it for another use [ 67 ] just as fan fiction takes an existing work and repurposes it ...

  6. Fictitious entry - Wikipedia

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    Fictitious entries on maps may be called phantom settlements, trap streets, [14] paper towns, cartographer's follies, or other names. They are intended to help reveal copyright infringements. [15] They are not to be confused with paper streets, which are streets which are planned but as of the printing of the map have not yet been built.

  7. Mickey Mouse, Long a Symbol in Copyright Wars, to Enter ...

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    Disney will still have ways to protect Mickey Mouse after Jan. 1. The company will retain copyrights in the character’s more modern versions for a few more years.

  8. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

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    The top left corner has a key called NumLock, or number lock. To use alt key codes for keyboard shortcut symbols you’ll need to have this enabled. If you’re using a laptop, your number pad is ...

  9. Celebrity worship: What it is and why we do it, according to ...

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    Some might call this the nature of being a fan, while others would label it an obsession. ... Level 3 is called "borderline-pathological" and illustrates a more severe impact on an individual's ...