From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 6/11/14 11:16 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   > On 11/06/2014 04:31, David Friedman wrote:   
   >> On 6/10/14, 5:51 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>> On 10/06/2014 19:51, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   >>>> But tie-in fiction is a point.  There you have a situation where there   
   >>>> is an audience for the source material, and you are catapulting off of   
   >>>> that.   
   >>>   
   >>> Tie in fiction is always traditionally published. If you self pubbed any   
   >>> tie-in story you'd have extreme copyright issues. You would, in effect,   
   >>> be publishing fanfic for profit.   
   >>   
   >> No problem if the original is out of copyright—Jane Austen, say, or   
   >> Dickens.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Austen and Dickens are hardly tie-in fiction, though.   
      
   	Well, anything based on them is either tie-in or fanfic if you put it   
   in modern terms.   
      
   > And neither Star   
   > Wars nor Doctor Who are going to be out of copyright any time soon.   
   >   
      
   	Alas. By the old copyright rules (14 years, renewable for another 14),   
   Original Trek, the original SW movies, a lot of Old Who, and a lot of   
   the Trek Spinoffs would be out of copyright.   
      
      
      
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