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iago:
I don't think a MUSH qualifies as "publication", and I do think that one has already asked for Jim's blessing, and gotten it.

Mickey Finn:
*nods* She has (gotten his blessing).  I was just curious as to the legal ramifications. I know Zelazny and Brust gave permissions for the MUSHes based off their works, but I also know lawyers  came in and harrassed Amber's wizards regarding the use of another author's characters in Amber*, so I was curious.
I want SemiAutoMagicMUSH to do well, with no problems. ;)


*For those of you who don't know Amber, it's a universe in which anything exists in infinate shadows (aka dimensions), so the works of other authors would exist out there somewhere. On AmberMUSH (a real-time text-based online rpg), some players brought other characters from other authors into the game. One author's lawyers took exception to this.

Minion:
Most authors don't mush so stand little chance of seeing what's done there. :)

I'm doing my best to skirt around most issues by moving the game to a new city entirely and under no circumstances allowing canon characters.

A lot of authors don't want MUSHes for their works for all sorts of copyright violation issues or general 'it's my sandbox get your ownness.' Others welcome them so long as you get and ok and post up copyright news files. The first news file I put in clearly said that all things Dresdenverse are copyrighted to Jim and all things FATE to Evil Hat.

While this may not hold legal value, it's good enough for most authors when it comes to allowing a game to run. I'm lucky since Jim's a gamer himself and I didn't have to explain what a MUSH is before getting his ok. :)

It is something of a grey area I think as it's playing in his world without his characters in it. It all comes down, in these cases, to the author and their lawyers.

thomasfan:
I write BtVS fanficton, too, and never heard that it was illegal.  I always put disclaimers on mine.  Anyway, I think it would be hard writing something about Harry and the others.  I mean in first person like Butcher does.   ;)  Once you do that then they lose their " life " as it were.  They're not the same.

Carol

Dom:
I think the difference with Buffy/Xena/Marvel Comics/DC Comics/etc. is that all of those are already shared worlds.  Both TV and the big print comics have multiple writers--tv is, in fact, required to hire freelance writers I think.  So it'd be stupid for those mediums to pester fanfiction writers, since those fanfic writers will grow up to be the next generation of scriptwriters and the like for those mediums.

Book fandom, however, is different.  It's not collaborative in most cases.  Therefore, hush on the fanfic.

Or at least, this is how I read it.

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