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Is Mac God?
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Kindler on April 16, 2018, 05:56:01 PM ---Things like that are homages, references, or in-jokes, and a reference to a town called "Corwin" is not a connection any more than dropping a line from "They Live" in the movie theater in Proven Guilty was. It's more than a long shot. It's a legal problem that Jim cannot (and wouldn't want to) overcome.
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Supernatural had a reference mention of a clued cop in Chicago named Murphy. The Alex Verus series mentioned rumors of a guy in Chicago who flouted magical secrecy by advertising in the phone book.
These are inside jokes for the fans, raidem, not hints that all the franchises are in a common universe.
peregrine:
--- Quote from: groinkick on April 18, 2018, 05:29:10 AM ---Well the thing is, Jim has flat out said he will take an idea from somewhere else and put a new coat of paint on it. For example the the Zerg from StarCraft and the Codex series. He took them, gave them a new coat of paint and used them.
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Yeah, but that doesn't actually make them the Zerg. The Xel Naga are not there hanging out somewhere in the background of the Alera stories waiting to do horrible things to people.
jonas:
It becomes a matter of respect at some point, i'm quite certain Jim does not want people directly comparing his to others to the point of proof=copyright infringement possibility. We have the inability to see and pass it on to ppl more worried about 'their theories' because they've been attacked for them so many times the it's scabbed over into an autoresponse that their theories are not only valid, but should be being made in such a format.
Wag about DF all you want, show where Jim got his inspiration, pls quit saying they are one in the same, or implying more. It's quite disrespectful. (and I loath the idea of having to ask someone vaguely connected to Jim to shut you down.... but I just might... more so because you disrespected my thread because I didn't want to collaborate and then proceeded to repeated talk about your own disconnected theories in attempt to annoy me, despite having no response to your original post, a convo with yourself... and less than a week later are no longer 'depressed' or annoyed in life but willfully producing new idea's. Seems you succeeded in annoying me, here's my response(which also does nothing to invalidate my own facts and argument, on the contrary, it simply drives me to make it))
groinkick:
--- Quote from: jonas on April 18, 2018, 06:03:14 PM ---It becomes a matter of respect at some point, i'm quite certain Jim does not want people directly comparing his to others to the point of proof=copyright infringement possibility.
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You mean like him saying Mirror Mirror is from an episode of Star Trek that has the same exact title? Like I said before, if you put your own spin on something you aren't violating a copyright issue.
Almost every story ever written is based on some story the author has read or heard about. There hasn't been a truly original story in probably thousands of years.
jonas:
--- Quote from: groinkick on April 18, 2018, 06:13:40 PM ---You mean like him saying Mirror Mirror is from an episode of Star Trek that has the same exact title? Like I said before, if you put your own spin on something you aren't violating a copyright issue.
Almost every story ever written is based on some story the author has read or heard about. There hasn't been a truly original story in probably thousands of years.
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Actually, if Star Trek wanted to push, they might be able to stir up trouble, however the name itself isn't copywrite. Also why Jim has avoided quite a few DnD monsters despite most being under an open umbrella because one group could later claim rights if they so choose. Now if They could viably prove Jim was taking from their revenue/base by putting out something of the exact same nature then yea, Look at fortnite being sued by PubG, they aren't the same, but that one little aspect was Battle royale enough to force Fortnite to shut down soon.
Star trek being sci-fi and a show it's kinda hard to say any such thing, but a book on fantasy where in Merlin archetypes are prevalent? Yea.... absolutely. Ya'll seem to forget this is America and they can choose to sue over the slightest provocation regardless of an assured victory. You seem to forget the guy who patented the motor vehicle and waited 20 years until they were being produced to press the patent, which caused ever single competitor to fold and give royalties except Henry Ford whose work helped overturn said patent.... After a lengthy legal battle that would in our case, basically kill the DF.
*compare it to mythology, compare it to works already in the public domain like Shakespeare. Stop saying it's a rip off of protected works before someone decides to take it seriously in the wrong way.
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