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Permission to use the Dresdenverse in a short story I'm writing...
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: belial.1980 on September 17, 2009, 04:58:02 AM ---Is there a certain amount of time that must pass before a deceased person becomes "public domain" and it's permissable to write about them in fiction?
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Not that I've ever seen. Harry Turtledove's alternate histories run through World War II, so I'd guess 50 years would be a good rule of thumb.
belial.1980:
--- Quote from: The Angel Yeratel on September 20, 2009, 02:03:23 PM ---Not that I've ever seen. Harry Turtledove's alternate histories run through World War II, so I'd guess 50 years would be a good rule of thumb.
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Hmmm...in my current WIP there's one scene where the characters summon the ghost of a deceased rock star to play a few numbers. I know in most books there's a disclaimer about any resemblence to anybody living or dead being strictly coincidental. So I'm wondering if that'll fly.
Oh well. That's assuming the manuscript ever gets published. So I'll roll with it for now and burn that bridge when (if) I come to it.
lawdawg7051:
id love to see an alternate history where the industial revolution happened in rome 2000 years ago. it almost did, a steam piston was invented but was looked at as a toy so noone saw the possibilities
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: lawdawg7051 on September 20, 2009, 05:58:37 PM ---id love to see an alternate history where the industial revolution happened in rome 2000 years ago. it almost did, a steam piston was invented but was looked at as a toy so noone saw the possibilities
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Lest Darkness Fall, L. Sprague de Camp, 1939.
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: belial.1980 on September 20, 2009, 05:49:53 PM ---Hmmm...in my current WIP there's one scene where the characters summon the ghost of a deceased rock star to play a few numbers. I know in most books there's a disclaimer about any resemblence to anybody living or dead being strictly coincidental. So I'm wondering if that'll fly.
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I sold a short story once featuring Elvis Presley, but it was printed in The International Journal of Elvisology and the Elvisian Era, put out by the local college and The First Coast Writer's Festival, so that probably doesn't count, since ALL of the stories featured Elvis. :)
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